Description: Features
The XDA II Mini runs Windows
Mobile 2003 Second Edition for Pocket
PC Phone Edition -- try saying that three times fast -- on an Intel PXA 272 processor running at 416MHz. With 64MB of Flash ROM and an equal quantity of RAM, it's heavy on the
storage side for a phone, but if you're looking for serious PDA usage, you may want to avail yourself of the SD/MMC
card slot that sits atop the
phone.
Running a variant of the Pocket
PC OS means it's preinstalled with the most common PDA applications from the Pocket
PC side of the
fence -- Word, Excel, PowerPoint Viewer and so on -- as well as some custom O2 applications. Like the other XDA units, the Mini
sports an integrated
digital camera, and in keeping with the best that we're seeing in
mobile phone cameras at the time of writing, it's a 1.3 megapixel unit, which should put it just into the acceptable and printable category.
As a phone, the XDA II Mini is tri-band
GSM and GPRS capable, and as it's a smart
phone with visual
keyboard facilities, creating and sending SMS and MMS messages is a snap. It's also Bluetooth capable, although that's not the only way to synchronise it with a suitable PC; a
USB cable is also provided.