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Brighthand reports that T-Mobile Germany has pushed back their launch of the MDA IV until Fall ‘05. This is not entirely surprising to us, given the fact that another mobile system, HSDPA is set to be the leader (well at least in countries with GSM) in high-speed mobile data access.
The MDA IV, manufactured by HTC [...]

P50 is certainly gonna make alot of JAM users think about upgrading?? It looks good and it should be great performer with the processor and hardware. ROM is still being tweaked though, unofficially, WiFi and Bluetooth were said to still being worked on.
- excerpt from a HowardForums post

What: no HSDPA?
The poster of this [...]

Whoa! Barely 24 hours after we whined about i-mate and O2 not getting their wares (specificly the HTC Universal model) to the US … and Smartphone Thoughts landed a scoop on the announcement by i-mate CEO Jim Morrison of their American HQ opening in San Diego, CA.
It might not be the HTC Universal, but the [...]

First, T-Mo Germany. Then Vodafone jumps in … and now Orange says, “Us too!”
Everyone that’s anyone in the EU is offering the world’s first 3G-enabled PDA phone, the HTC Universal design. The really tiring question is: is the US (Asia, even) ever gonna see this awesome device on its shores?
We see the importers doing [...]

Six months after its PDA phone launch in KL, and Malaysian company/US corporation Dallab, Inc. has yet to make any impact in the homeland …

We came face-to-face with the Windows Mobile 2003 Phone Edition powered DP900 today and are sad to note it’s a loser in the dollar-for-features stake, compared with its closest competitor the [...]

Firstly, forgive us for not naming the units any other way but by OEM’s codenames: There are just so many iterations of the Magician worldwide our brain hurts every time we think of them … But the Universal seems to be only available (so far) with T-Mobile and Vodafone in Germany, and they are named [...]

ABI is also reporting that “the number of radios in the cell phone is set to rise exponentially” soon. Instead of just GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS cellular, with some Bluetooth on the side for synching and using a headset, the researchers say it will soon have GPS for location services, various versions of Wi-Fi and [...]

To strengthen its leadership in the fast-growing smart device market, HP will continue to evolve the HP iPAQ product line and build on the success of the award-winning iPAQ 6300 series smart device. The new devices will incorporate several different types of wireless technologies and be offered in a variety of designs and sizes as [...]

PocketGear.com has a great tip for an interesting Bluetooth snafu: Apparently the Bluetooth stack on PDA phones running Windows Mobile Phone Edition can only accept numeric passkeys needed to pair with other Bluetooth devices.
A problem might surface when you need to pair these PDA phones - such as the T-Mobile MDA III, O2 XDA II, [...]

Not surprising at all this happens, as PalmInfocenter picks up an In-Stat study of PDA shipment and growth rate dropping off in the coming years, as well as the “morphing” of traditional PDAs into more industry-centric tools or smartphones (we say PDA phone):
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular wireless devices will be offered by more traditional PDA [...]