08-15-2005, 03:00 PM
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2 New Windows Mobile 5. 0 Smartphones from Qtek
  Qtek has just released a couple of new handsets for your drooling enjoyment. The new Qtek 8310 and 8300 will feature Windows Mobile 5.0, a 2.2" QVGA (240x320) screen, Quad band - EDGE, a TI OMAP 200 MHz CPU, 1.3 MegaPixel Camera with digital zoom, Bluetooth, and WiFi. At least, I think that's WiFi - Anyone care to translate the Qtek web pages for us?  I haven't been able to pick out the differences between these two devices, other than the obvious colour and keypad layout. I love this time of year, when all the new handsets start hitting the streets and my wallet starts to feel a little lighter. :lol:
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08-15-2005, 04:20 PM
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The 8310 looks a lot like my Dell Axim X50 PDA 
Both are nice looking, but where are the clam shell's!!!
I get excited with every new SmartPhone announcement just to be let down that it's just another candy bar that looks like a SMT5600.
Still waiting..... |
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08-15-2005, 04:56 PM
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Re: 2 New Windows Mobile 5. 0 Smartphones from Qtek
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I haven't been able to pick out the differences between these two devices, other than the obvious colour and keypad layout.
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Dedicated music playback keys on the 8300 meaning it has more of a music phone focus than the 8310. |
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08-15-2005, 05:42 PM
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If I had to have a candy bar phone it would be the 8310
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08-15-2005, 06:02 PM
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Re: 2 New Windows Mobile 5. 0 Smartphones from Qtek
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Originally Posted by raulr
I haven't been able to pick out the differences between these two devices, other than the obvious colour and keypad layout.
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Dedicated music playback keys on the 8300 meaning it has more of a music phone focus than the 8310.[/quote]
D'OH! What was I thinking?  ops: Ya, you're right. I guess I was too busy trying to read the specs and I didn't look closely enough at the images.
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08-15-2005, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by egads
The 8310 looks a lot like my Dell Axim X50 PDA
Both are nice looking, but where are the clam shell's!!!
I get excited with every new SmartPhone announcement just to be let down that it's just another candy bar that looks like a SMT5600.
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Clamshells? A better question is where are the CDMA phones? The i645 has supposedly been cancelled so now there are none in the pipeline for those of us forced into using CDMA. |
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08-15-2005, 06:11 PM
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Not sure these are the accurate specs...
After checking out the actual Finnish Qtek site, I'm not sure they both will have 240x320 screens, etc - if you look at the pages on the qtek site, the text is exactly the same, with just the model numbers and photos swapped out - also notice the title bar for those two pages (this shows up at the tab-bar title in FireFox).
In both cases, the page title is "Qtek 8200 Smartphone". Since for both models, the Finnish lists the screens as being 2.2", and the phones exactly the same size - then why does the 8310 screen look larger then the 8300? Or are the photos not quite to scale?
I think I'd wait before jumping to the conclusion that these 2 have the exact same specs.
Oh - in other news, I spent the weekend in Singapore, and was playing with an Axia A108 phone at one of the gadget-malls - it's pretty cool, although it runs Windows CE .NET (4.2) without the "Windows Mobile" or "PocketPC" GUI/Application layer on top (but it did have Windows Media Player 9, and MSN Messenger for CE, and that cool TextMaker app that's way better than Pocket Word (and whatever the spreadsheet "pocket Excel clone" that the Textmaker folks make).
While the interface was a tad sluggish (despite the box saying it had a 266 MHz OMAP processor), it did have (gasp) a QVGA touch-screen, and was about the same size/weight/heft of the O2 Xphone IIm that I was comparing it to.
Does anybody know if any of the other smartphones that are coming out (like these Qtek models) will have touch-screens, or is the Axia a sort of fluke? (and does anybody know of a way to flash a Windows CE phone with Windows Mobile 2005? just curious ;-) )
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08-15-2005, 06:16 PM
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If the specs are the same, the music buttons dont add much other than gimmicky functionality. They'll both run WMP10 probably with any kind of extra music interface software, so what's the difference.
I'll take the 8310! Today please! 
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08-15-2005, 06:40 PM
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That 8310 looks sweet - you can tell they just cloned the Axim X50 design, but it's nice anyway. |
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08-15-2005, 06:55 PM
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8310 does look sweet! Anyone know if it uses a stylus? I love the candybar form-factor... I'm waiting to see what I-mate comes out with for Win Mobile 5.0... Hopefully something similar to the Jam... Of course this Qtek does look awful tempting |
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