05-24-2004, 04:30 PM
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Audiovox 4100 Pocket PC Announced, To Be Carried By AT&T
"Audiovox Communications Corporation and AT&T Wireless announced today the PPC 4100, an integrated wireless PDA phone featuring Windows Mobile software, will be available in June 2004 and showcased for the first time today at Microsoft's Tech Ed conference in San Diego, CA. The PPC 4100 will be available for $349 after a $50 instant rebate. The unmatched combination of power, function and form makes this competitively priced 'all-in-one' device one of the best values on the market today."
While the device doesn't have Bluetooth, it is very compact, is running a 400MHz XScale with 64MB of RAM, is triband -- including the GSM 850 band -- and most importantly, has an affordable pricepoint: $349! That's the first Pocket PC Phone I've seen launched that is reasonably priced from the get-go. Apparently, it'll be available in stores in June. It doesn't seem to have appeared on AT&T's webpage yet, but it should be there soon. You can see the full press release here.
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05-24-2004, 04:37 PM
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Intellectual
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PLEASE let this be part of the Cingular release too!! I could have sworn they just merged recently, but I have a Cingular contract. For $350 I could convert to a PPC Phone (finally).
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05-24-2004, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by bkerrins
PLEASE let this be part of the Cingular release too!! I could have sworn they just merged recently, but I have a Cingular contract.
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They have just approved the merger, so it's going forward. As to what the exact date is, though, I have no clue.
--janak
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05-24-2004, 04:48 PM
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I hope the get this here. I was going to get the mpx200 from Att, but we are on 850 for GSM here and can't use that phone locally. While I would really love the mpx, this might be something affordable.
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05-24-2004, 05:07 PM
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This thing isn't going to sell well. According to the manual (and Brighthand's earlier coverage):
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Your device is not designed for held-at-ear use and should never be used against the ear.
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I'm guessing there's a missing line at the end that would have read "or else the deadly levels of radiation will give you brain cancer."
This is the same phone that came out overseas long ago with the flip-down hard numeric keypad (a la Kyocera 6035). So, they've dropped the flip-pad and are telling you not to even hold it up to your head? That other design would have been so much better, so I can only imagine that there was some sort of health issue for the modification.
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05-24-2004, 05:24 PM
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Intellectual
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THis looks like the HP 6300 to me. I remember hearing talk about HP's OEM selling the design to other...??? Am I off base? :?:
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05-24-2004, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Scott R
This is the same phone that came out overseas long ago with the flip-down hard numeric keypad (a la Kyocera 6035). So, they've dropped the flip-pad and are telling you not to even hold it up to your head? That other design would have been so much better, so I can only imagine that there was some sort of health issue for the modification.
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Yeah - I can't make heads or tails of that decision either.  I can't imagine the device could be released with such a high radiation, but we'll have to look for the SAR results before we say any further on that note.
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05-24-2004, 06:40 PM
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Oracle
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Nice price point, but why AT&T? Looks like AT&T is desperate to offer as much "cool stuff" as they can to stop the fleeing hordes of customers...
I wish T-Mo would get on the cool bandwagon here in the US soon...
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05-24-2004, 07:28 PM
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Actually, if it has the 850MHZ band, then it would probably be a quad band (850, 900, 1800, 1900), not a tri-band.
Also, I'm not sure why people would be "fleeing" AT&T. With the merger with Cingular, their network east of the Mississippi will rival Verizon and Sprint in terms of coverage.
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05-24-2004, 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by DaleReeck
Also, I'm not sure why epople would be "fleeing" AT&T. With the merger with Cingular, their network east of the Mississippi will rival Verizon and Sprint in terms of coverage.
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Terrible customer service. Had line number portability been in effect here when I had to resign, I would have left. May not be good, but at least it is cheap. I am hoping for some improvement with Cingular.
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