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First-hand report from IFA 2006 : T-Mobile MDA compact III presented but it has no built-in Wi-Fi ! September 04, 2006 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. Slow processor is not the only grief with HTC Artemis, that has been unveiled as T-Mobile MDA compact III at IFA 2006 by T-Mobile! Another dissapointment is: lack of built-in Wi-Fi as you can see here: 
... where you can notice that Wi-Fi icon (for switching-on and switching-off the Wi-Fi) is missing! For comparison's sake here is screen shot from other phone with buit-in Wi-Fi! T-Mobile MDA compact III has 2 distinctive controlling elements: a wheel and a ball/mouse. The wheel is a round ball and can be used similarly like steering wheel in a car: 
The mouse is 3-dimensional ball that you can move to control cursor (mouse pointer): 
On the back of the phone there is 2 megapixel camera with little self-portrait mirror: 
The USB connector looks like mini-USB industry standard: 
The phone has built-in FM radio but it is not working if headset is not connected, and throws such message: 
The phone lacks band switching, so either it is fully automatic or only tri-band or dual band: 
... and certainly it also lacks 3G band switching so it has no 3G (no UMTS). As mentioned above this phone is powered by slow processor of around 200 MHz (201 MHz to be exact): 
Here is another confirmation that this phone has no built-in Wi-Fi - it is missing out in the list of interfaces: 
This phone features also QuickGPS application: 
... what enables very fast GPS fixes - through downloads of satellite data over the Internet. Conclusion: T-Mobile MDA compact III may not have built-in Wi-Fi and 3G, but it is truly small Pocket PC phone with innovative controls, that may be useful in GPS navigation software. All in all, if the price will be appriopriately low, this phone may be an interesting proposition for people interested in having built-in GPS. When compared to competition - other Pocket PC phones with built-in GPS - it is much smaller, but it has slower processor than these phones. Probably the idea behind leaving out Wi-Fi was: if you need GPS so much that it must be embedded into your mobile phone, then you probably are anyway far away from Wi-Fi hot spots, so you don't need Wi-Fi!  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 2 Comments ]
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