06-06-2006, 08:00 PM
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AnexTEK Unleashes Two New moboDA Devices
Some of you may recall the moboDA 3360, which appeared at last year's Computex. AnexTEK has upped the ante this time with two new moboDA Pocket PC Phone Edition devices - the 3160 and the 3380 (which form-factor-wise, has BenQ P50 written all over it).
And a rundown of the specs:
� moboDA 3160: Intel PXA272 416MHz processor, 64MB RAM, 128MB ROM, tri-band GSM/GPRS support, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 1.2, a 2.8" QVGA (240 x 320) 65K-colour TFT-LCD, a 1.3-megapixel camera, an SDIO/SD/MMC slot, push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) support, and Windows Mobile 5.0 with the MSFP (AKU 2.x).
� moboDA 3380: More powerful; Intel PXA272 520MHz procesor, 64MB RAM, 256MB ROM, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 1.2, GPS, a 2.8" QVGA (240 x 320) 65K-colour TFT-LCD, a 2.0-megapixel camera, an SDIO/SD/MMC slot, a QWERTY thumb-board, and Windows Mobile 5.0 with the MSFP (AKU 2.x).
Did I just hear you say you want the moboDA 3380? 
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06-06-2006, 08:05 PM
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Pontificator
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To borrow a phrase, holy sweet flaming undead mother of cheese on a freaking unicycle. That thing looks huge. Cool feature list, but how do you make a device that giganto-normous and fail to include a VGA screen?
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06-06-2006, 08:31 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Every new PPC announcement (all of them QVGA) just confirms my suspicions - VGA on the PocketPC is dead.
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06-06-2006, 08:34 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jun 2006
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WOW. Size Schmize. I kinda expect it to be that large with those specs. My only question to you all is: how do I get my hands on one?! :mrgreen:
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06-06-2006, 09:02 PM
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Pontificator
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Originally Posted by DaleReeck
Every new PPC announcement (all of them QVGA) just confirms my suspicions - VGA on the PocketPC is dead.
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It was stillborn from the start. VGA has always been a luxury feature, with little hope of becoming mainstream. The entry cost is too high, even on standard PDAs, unless you're able to act quickly when Dell offers a brief coupon code to slash a couple hundred bucks off its top-of-the-line Axim. Add a VGA screen to a smartphone and you end up with a phone that costs as much as a notebook PC, ala JasJar.
One of the biggest blunders Microsoft ever made with Windows Mobile was its decision not to support HVGA, the native resolution of PalmOS-powered devices. It's a good tweener resolution that offers a "poor man's VGA" experience that looks just about as good as a full blown VGA screen. And the cost of manufacturing is just cheap enough to fit into a smartphone with minimal costs in parts or power consumption.
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06-06-2006, 09:30 PM
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HVGA? Bah. It's a specialty resolution, more expensive than it's really worth. The only reason Palms adopted it was because it scaled well from their original 160 x 160 and 320 x 320 screens, because they didn't have the sense to follow HandEra and standardize on QVGA. Besides which, HVGA is not a standard aspect ratio, so you'd have serious compatibility issues.
VGA is hardly dead: Dell's best selling unit is the X51v. I'd say the lack of VGA devices has more to do with the glut of "me too" phone wannabes, each either retreading the same crappy specs or trying to do something new and ending up with a brick, just because the company bought into the hype about smartphones being such a big thing.
Bah.
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06-06-2006, 09:56 PM
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No argument there. But at least HVGA exists, in 320x320 flavor of course. Anyone seen a 480x480 or VGA smartphone floating around in the wild? Nope.
Well JasJar is VGA, but that will set you back the price of a shiny new MacBook.
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06-06-2006, 10:02 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by DaleReeck
Every new PPC announcement (all of them QVGA) just confirms my suspicions - VGA on the PocketPC is dead.
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Tell that to my HTC Universal. The Universal II is coming in 2007.
Surur
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06-06-2006, 10:15 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2002
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Yeah, the 3380 sounds like what I'm looking for. I don't require a VGA screen. I do however require quad band, WM5.0, thumbboard and GPS. that's it. OK, techncally I also want to be able to install a little memory but could care less if it's SD, Micro SD or CF. Is this thing really going to become availabe within my life time or is it vaporware?
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06-06-2006, 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Foo Fighter
No argument there. But at least HVGA exists, in 320x320 flavor of course. Anyone seen a 480x480 or VGA smartphone floating around in the wild? Nope.
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How does that matter? It seems to me that anybody who cares enough about resolution to go high-res wouldn't want a square screen, they'd want the real thing. Therefore, a 480 x 480 device would be a bit of a waste.
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Well JasJar is VGA, but that will set you back the price of a shiny new MacBook.
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Odd, I'm looking at eBay and seeing new Universals for under $300. Perhaps i-mate should reconsider their pricing. :lol:
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