HP iPAQ 5600?

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.mypdacafe.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3856' target='_blank'>http://www.mypdacafe.com/forums/top...p?TOPIC_ID=3856</a><br /><br /></div>Have you wondered why the HP 5450 had a slot for a SIM card? Because the HP 5600 is the phone edition of this device, based on the same body design as the 5450 of course! They added an antenna and a GSM/GPRS chipset, making this the first Pocket PC Phone Edition device to be sold by a major OEM in North America (only Europeans got the HP Jornada Phone Edition device). This link will take you go a My PDA Café discussion thread with many pictures of this new device. Very little information is known about this device, but it sure looks nice. :D

[Venturello]

Woohoo, seems to be just what I've been waiting!! Now I ask myself... why doesnt HP solder in a couple more chips, and give us 128Mb? I would pay 50, 100 more dollars for that... and RAM is cheap theese days, isnt it?

What is on it besides the phone, bluetooth or wi-fi? Does anyone know? Or nothing?

[szamot]

OK that is most likely going to be arond $1200 CDN perhaps as little as $999 with activation with AT&T, and as much as I hate saying it - this sure takes the luster away from my X5 and makes it look pretty lame....and I am yet to get the damn thing delivered. I am in love with HP again.

[Birdman]

Is this one coming to Canada?

[danmanmayer]

YES FINALLY the POCKET PC PHONE I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.... I will have a pocket pc again.... does anyone know when this is coming? Will it be here by january? I want it now or yesterday. I am assuming 400 mhz and all the other phone stuff... so excited.... They finally learned.

[Paragon]

Internally so far HP hasn't even set a release date for this device yet, from what I understand.

I wouldn't hold my breath Christmas morning....IMHO.

Dave

[ricksfiona]

That is one sweet looking machine. A HP5450 WITH GSM/GPRS. It would be perfect with 128MB of RAM.

Would I buy it? If I was getting all the features of the 5450 PLUS GSM/GPRS and it cost $650. Yes.

[stormjedi]

:? why HP can't produce a phone ipaq with less or no protruded antenna ? why NOKIA can do it with their phone ? this is the reason why i choose NOKIA instead of MOTOROLA !

[David C]

why HP can't produce a phone ipaq with less or no protruded antenna ? why NOKIA can do it with their phone ? this is the reason why i choose NOKIA instead of MOTOROLA !

Flush antenna is cool, I agree. I used to have a Nokia too. But in real life, no antenna suffers from bad reception, especiall if you live in major metropolitan city like LA or NY.

[Jeff Rutledge]

Time to start planning Operation Convince Wife...

[Ojster]

Does anyone know whether this iPAQ will be UMTS ready?

Regards,
Peter

[farnold]

I liked the concept of the HP928 with its little display for phone usage on top. Any idea why they didn't continue using this disgin for the IPAQ phone as well? :?:

[sycamore]

the real tests will be:

(1) bluetooth capability, i.e., communicate with a bluetooth headset,
(2) voice recognition software, and
(3) full software integration with the Contacts DB.

Seems simple enough, eh?

[Oliver T]

Sycamore,

according to pocketpcpassion the 5450 has already the headset bluetooth profile and you can even listen mp3 and record voicenotes with it, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. Hmm, everything the Loox ever promised and couldn't keep up to ? Makes me think ...

Cheers,

Oliver

[brianworkman]

I read above where someone said that the new 5600 would be sold by AT&T, does anybody if it would be sold be T-Mobile as well, given that they are the only fully digital nationwide GSM carrier, will nationwide GPRS.

Also with the next step in wireless data being the move from GPRS to EDGE. Will the 5600 be upgradable to EDGE capabilities. At the beginning of the year, T-Mobile (at the time still Voicestream) said that by the end of 2003, they would be fully upgraded to EDGE, which I think is somewhere of a maximum of 400k per second. It would be a bank buster to have to buy another device at the end of the year to get full use of the wireless internet.

[Jonathon Watkins]

Time to start planning Operation Convince Wife...

:lol: One of the hardest operations known to Man. :wink: Good luck!