05-29-2005, 05:14 AM
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Further Details on the HTC Wizard Revealed
The Howard Forums site has been a hotbed of news and rumours lately regarding HTC's upcoming products, and today for the first time we have an image of the forthcoming HTC Wizard. The specs: quad-band GSM with EDGE, 802.11g, Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera, and a 240 x 320 screen. The design looks rather thick to me, but this is a rendering and the real device in the hand will probably be quite a bit different. It looks like an interesting device!
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05-29-2005, 05:26 AM
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Re: Further Details on the HTC Wizard Revealed
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About time! It's going to be great seeing 802.11g integrated in a batch of upcoming Pocket PCs. The future definitely looks bright!
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05-29-2005, 05:35 AM
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Man that looks thick!
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05-29-2005, 05:46 AM
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Umm...what am I not getting? This unit will be arriving after the HTC Universal, right? Yet the Universal has a full VGA screen and is thinner... That would make the Wizard a clear step backwards.
What did I miss?
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05-29-2005, 06:33 AM
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Re: Further Details on the HTC Wizard Revealed
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About time! It's going to be great seeing 802.11g integrated in a batch of upcoming Pocket PCs. The future definitely looks bright! |
Yah that�s great but wasn�t there a bottleneck with the OS itself when it comes to speed? :? I swear that Jason reported something about this last fall or last year sometime. What good is 802.11G if the OS is holding you up? Maybe 2005 will fix this.
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05-29-2005, 06:44 AM
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Re: Further Details on the HTC Wizard Revealed
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Yah that�s great but wasn�t there a bottleneck with the OS itself when it comes to speed? :? I swear that Jason reported something about this last fall or last year sometime. What good is 802.11G if the OS is holding you up? Maybe 2005 will fix this.
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Windows Mobile 5.0 has full support for 802.11g. Earlier versions of Windows Mobile didn't.
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05-29-2005, 06:50 AM
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Re: Further Details on the HTC Wizard Revealed
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Yah that�s great but wasn�t there a bottleneck with the OS itself when it comes to speed? :? I swear that Jason reported something about this last fall or last year sometime. What good is 802.11G if the OS is holding you up? Maybe 2005 will fix this.
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Yah but I'm not talking about 802.11G. I'm talking just 802.11B speeds. I in fact I know that it was brought up because I remember a Palm friend giving me crap over it in that transfer rates were better on Palm then on PPC. OK time to start Googling.
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05-29-2005, 06:57 AM
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Re: Further Details on the HTC Wizard Revealed
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Yah but I'm not talking about 802.11G. I'm talking just 802.11B speeds. I in fact I know that it was brought up because I remember a Palm friend giving me crap over it in that transfer rates were better on Palm then on PPC. OK time to start Googling.
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Right. I'm confused about what's going through your mind at the moment. First minute you were talking about 11g, next minute you're talking about 11b. :lol:
If you could point me to a link, that'd be great. 
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05-29-2005, 07:36 AM
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Umm...what am I not getting? This unit will be arriving after the HTC Universal, right? Yet the Universal has a full VGA screen and is thinner... That would make the Wizard a clear step backwards.
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Hows about a device thats actually pocketable and when making calls doesnt look like you are pressing something at the side of your head that looks like one of those ultraportable laptops?
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05-29-2005, 07:47 AM
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Darius,
I think Jonathon is saying that the bottleneck is the OS and not network bandwidth. If the OS is maxed out and you still aren't even using 100% of "b" bandwidth, jumping to "G" means nothing. The OS is STILL the bottleneck.
Think of it this way: a P.O.S. car that can only get up to 35MPH is not suddenly going to go faster if it goes from a 55MPH road to a 75MPH road. It's still only gonna poke along at 35MPH, because the car is the bottleneck, not the speed limit of the road.
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