[gibson042]

Originally Posted by Surur

Of course dual slots are an advantage, but you have to ask yourself what you would put in those slots. Most things are included already.

Sadly, though, we will have to give up our €615 CF Multimeters. :wink:

[gibson042]

Originally Posted by Surur

Of course dual slots are an advantage, but you have to ask yourself what you would put in those slots. Most things are included already.

Sadly, though, we will have to give up our €615 CF Multimeters. :wink:

[Don't Panic!]

Originally Posted by Surur

Of course dual slots are an advantage, but you have to ask yourself what you would put in those slots. Most things are included already. Actually in a funny way this is the resurrection of the palm top PDA of years gone by. I'm sure this will make many people very happy.

Surur

A couple of movies to take adavantage of the big for a phone VGA Screen, and a few thousand or so MP3's would be my immediate usage. I'm sure I could think of some other uses for my required slots but mostly data storage is what I have in mind.

[Phillip Dyson]

Originally Posted by Surur

Of course dual slots are an advantage, but you have to ask yourself what you would put in those slots. Most things are included already. Actually in a funny way this is the resurrection of the palm top PDA of years gone by. I'm sure this will make many people very happy.

Surur

A dedicated slot to upgrade the internal memory for programs and data that I want to keep with me all time.

A second more transient slot for swapping out GPS maps, Music, Movies, eBooks, Pictures, ... etc

[dim_spazov]

I wish someone from germany could translate this for us:

Triband für Nutzung auch in Teilen der USA

It was taken from T-Mobile's official MDA IV tech page.


http://www.t-mobile.de/shop/handy/1,...-0-1-2,00.html

[pcboy2003]

Originally Posted by gibson042

YES. :D

But it looks like it's running pocket pc 2003se tho.

[surur]

Originally Posted by pcboy2003

But it looks like it's running pocket pc 2003se tho.

Thats just a cardboard cutout screenshot, like in the mobile phone shops.

Surur

[nuts]

Originally Posted by dim_spazov

I wish someone from germany could translate this for us:

It was taken from T-Mobile's official MDA IV tech page.


http://www.t-mobile.de/shop/handy/1,...-0-1-2,00.html

"Triband to use in PARTS of the USA"

[MS Mobiles]

Originally Posted by Janak Parekh

Interestingly, information presented along with the device here at CeBIT lists its GSM support as being quad-band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz as opposed to the previously claimed tri-band support

Yes, on the stand (behind the glass) stand 850/900/1800/1900 but I have got confirmation from T-Mobile people that it was mistake of the person who was making this glass stand. In reality MDA IV is tri-band (unfortunately).

[LarDude]

The HTC Universal is a brick! It's as big as my Tosh e805 (which I gave up trying to carry around everywhere), only thicker!

There appears to be alot of unused space around the screen which makes for an unnecessarily large footprint -- this, of course, is probably constrained by the keyboard. I'd rather see the keyboard replaced by a thumboard (easier to type while walking between departure gates, for example), shrink the footprint down so that it is constrained by the size of the screen and the nav-pad, but keep all the other goodies.

Compare the Universal (132mm x 79mm x 22mm) to the Amoi G630 (105mm x 51mm x 25mm, http://www.mobiletechreview.com/ubbt...s&Number=19469). The Amoi G630 may not have all the goodies the HTC Universal has, but on the other hand, it does feature *two* screens and looks like it may be infinitely more Pocketable. (Sidenote: the HTC Magician/imate JAM/MDA Compact has a size of 108mm x 58mm x 18mm, which has a larger footprint than the G630). The fly-in-the-ointment, besides the constantly changing model number (G630? E900?...?), is that it might just turn out to be vapourware or that it might not come to North America.

[beq]

Hmm, can we still hope that HTC is actually able to equip the Universal with quad-band, but T-Mobile purposedly spec'ed tri-band in their version (due to T-Mo USA not even using 850MHz), but that other brands such as i-mate will also come out with their version of the Universal with quad-band? Kind of like how some versions of the Blue Angel come without a camera or Wi-Fi?

Originally Posted by Surur

Thats just a cardboard cutout screenshot, like in the mobile phone shops.

But the infoSync article mentions these are pictures of the MDA IV actually in a switched on state?

My last question is, when everyone keep saying this will come out this year, what time frame are we looking at, more like Christmas or summer?