Paul Martin
09-11-2007, 12:30 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.theunwired.net/?item=photoview-o2-xda-comet-windows-mobile-6-professional-smartphone' target='_blank'>http://www.theunwired.net/?item=pho...onal-smartphone</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Just unveiled recently, the Xda comet is O2 Germany's latest Windows Mobile powered smartphone but Asian readers of the::unwired know the device already - it's an updated O2 Xda Atom Life. Powered by Windows Mobile 6 Professional, the O2 Xda comet supplements O2 Germany's Xda trion (aka HTC TyTN/HTC Hermes) but unlike all the German Xda's before, this device is manufactured by Quanta. The Xda comet might be one of the fastest Windows Mobile smartphones today. Sporting a super-fast Marvell XScale PXA 270 CPU at 624 MHz and featuring amazing 1 GB ROM and 64 MB RAM (which can be extended with miniSD memory cards), the Xda comet also features triband GSM/GPRS/EDGE at 900/1800/1900 MHz and dualband UMTS/HSDPA at 1900/2100 MHz with support of HSDPA phase 2 up to 3.6 Mbps. Furthermore, WiFi b/g as well as the outdated Bluetooth 1.2 are on board."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/martin-20070910-unwired_o2_xda_comet.jpg" /><br /><br />Arne Hess has some great shots of the new German o2 Xda comet and will be posting a review. Wow! I just looked at that figure again: <b>1 GB ROM</b>. I think I need to learn German! If you can speak <i>auf deutsch</i>, it will come in handy as you glance at the <a href="http://cando.o2online.de/popup.php">o2 eJournal</a>, page 5, which mentions the Xda comet and offers a link to <a href="http://cando.o2online.de/pdf/cando_handyvergleich_september.pdf">this pdf for more information</a>. <a href="http://www.theunwired.net/?item=confirmed-o2-germany-to-release-the-o2-xda-comet-early-october">According to Arne</a>, the Comet should make it's appearance during October, but pricing has not yet been released. As an aside, I think o2 has done a great job with their interactive magazine. I'd like to see more of this, though it would currently be hard to watch on a mobile device.