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Review: The T-Mobile Ameo - a whole new concept March 07, 2007 [Pocket PC phone] | By Lutzh Haedrich. Is it a bird? A plane? A pocket pc? A phone? Well except for the bird and the plane it is all of that and more! To big to be carried in your pocket as the everyday mobile phone but fast and feature rich enough to replace your heavy weight laptop for certain jobs you may have to do. Let's figure out the pro's and con's of the T-Mobile Ameo, aka Dopod U1000 or HTC X7500!   Let's take a look at the technical specificatios of this device first: Operating System Microsoft: Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone Edition HSDPA/UMTS Tri-band 2100 MHz and 850/1900 MHz, GSM/GPRS Quad band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz Processor Intel PXA270 624 MHz, ATU Graphic Chip W2284 ROM: 256 MB, RAM: 128MB, HDD (Microdrive): 8GB, MiniSD card slot Dimentions 133.5 (L) x 98 (W) x 16 (T)mm, 395 g If you see the dimensions you instantly know that this device is not ment to be carried in your pockets (unless your baggy pants are more baggy than pants).    Here comes the traditional virtual walk around the device! As you can see, the Ameo comes with conservative T-Mobile brandig. No big logo's or names are placed on the front of the device!  Seperate indicators for network, wifi/bt status and alerts. Also there: The low resolution camera for video calling.  The right corner of the Ameo - on top the stylus holder and camera button. You can also see the right speaker (stereo sound output), connection manager and power button.  On picture below: The button for the Motion control G-Sensor - HTC has developed something called VueFLO, it allows to move websites in your browser (portable ie as well as opera!) by simply moving the device up/down/left/right. You'll see the feature in a clip later on!  The keyboard - ultra flat, attached to the device with a "magic magnet" - see video later on! For my taste the keys are a little too soft, the feedback while typing is not good enough...  Bottom up - you see the keyboard connector on the right. Battery, sim card and storage card (miniSD - I can live with that if I have 8 Gig Microdrive running in the Ameo!) are under the cover.  The left side of the device - volume slider, vga connector, mini usb for charging/sync and finally a 3,5 mm headset connector.  The back side. You see the soft reset hole and the 3 megapixel camera with xenon flash light.  Keyboard connector. It attaches by a strong magnet to the device!  All together now. It looks very sexy!    Check out the video, how the magic magnets are working - simply press play below! One of the coolest features of the T-Mobile Ameo is the vga output. In the next pictures you can see some impressions what it looks like if the Ameo get's attached to a 42'' plasma tv!        Below you see a video clip of the T-Mobile Ameo attached to VGA input of the plasma tv. The connector cable comes with the Ameo. As you can see it is possible to watch videos, pictures or any type of mobile office application on a big screen as well as on a TFT office monitor! One feature we have to talk about is: VueFLO! Thats a really cool feature - as soon as you are pressing the VueFLO key you can move page up/down/left/right while you browse a webpage. VueFLO is taking the actual position of the Ameo as - lets call it - the zero margin and when you move the Ameo up or down the webpage starts to scroll. That's a really awesome feature. Remember the hype about the upcoming apple phone and it's G-sensor that turns the today screen portrait or landscreen mode? Well here you have it already and I am very sure that this will be tweaked to work with other applications too.  If you are in the mood to read - check out Ameo's handbook - it's biiiig! I haven't checked it yet...  That's it for now. If you have any question left, feel free to ask in our forums.   Cheers, Lutz Haedrich PS: If you use any other browser than the IE you may not see the embedded windows media player. Feel free to start the clips HERE , HERE and HERE! UPDATE Upon request you find here some pictures taken with the Ameo's 3 megapixel camera and a video. Pictures are not photoshop'd, only resized to 600 x 450 pixel. The video is converted from *.mp4 format to *.wmv without any modifications.        Cheers, Lutz  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 12 Comments ]
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