O2's Xda Orbit Launches in the UK

[Darius Wey]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://xda.o2.co.uk/looksXdaOrbit.html' target='_blank'>http://xda.o2.co.uk/looksXdaOrbit.html</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20061201-xdaorbit.jpg" /><br /><br />O2's version of the HTC Artemis (<a href="http://xda.o2.co.uk/looksXdaOrbit.html">Xda Orbit</a>) has just launched in the UK, with <a href="http://businessshop.o2.co.uk/phone_detail.aspx?id=71&groupid=1">ALK CoPilot included in the box</a>. With GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth all packed into that sleek black shell, it's a pretty sweet device, though the 200MHz processor may be enough to make you look elsewhere.

[Eriq Cook]

It'd be perfect if it had a slide out keyboard. And how come the best looking ones are never in America?

[srmz]

Somehow I was under the impression that there no more ties between HTC and O2, but if that was true howcome we see the O2 Orbit.
Regards

[Nurhisham Hussein]

Somehow I was under the impression that there no more ties between HTC and O2, but if that was true howcome we see the O2 Orbit.
Regards

The split in relationship involves O2 Asia and HTC - there's still some continuance in Europe and elsewhere.

[griph]

And how come the best looking ones are never in America?
Probably a simplistic view, but it is probably due to market forces. Wikipedia states: "Currently CDMA covers a smaller portion of the world as compared to GSM which has more subcribers and is in more countries overall worldwide."
A phone manufacturer can produce a GSM phone and hit a huge global market (potentially billions). Whereas he would then have to produce a different model for CDMA for a (globally) limited market (potentially millions).
Now that GSM is growing in some parts of the States I guess this may get worse for CDMA users.