O2 XDA Guide
Discontinued 17th December 2008
The latest in O2's long-running XDA
series of Windows smartphones is the O2 XDA Guide.
It's a fairly plain looking device at
first sight, perhaps bordering on the ugly. But underneath,
the XDA Guide is a much more interesting handset than
you would expect. The main selling feature of the XDA
Guide is the integrated GPS and TomTom Navigator 7 software,
complete with a set of maps.
At the moment, the O2 XDA Guide has
only been announced for Germany, so the maps are for
Germany, Austria and Switzerland. There's no news on
other countries such as the UK, but really it should
be easy enough for O2 to change the maps.
It's a fully featured Windows smartphone,
with a 2.8" 240 x 320 pixel touchscreen display,
3.2 megapixel camera, WiFi, UMTS (3G) support plus HSDPA
and HSUPA giving high-speed downloads and uploads, a
528 MHz Qualcomm MSM 7225 processor with a decent 256MB
RAM, plus microSD expandable memory and Bluetooth. A
car kit and charging cable is included in the standard
sales package, along with a 1GB memory card.
The
software is Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, enhanced
with HTC's TouchFLO interface and Opera Mobile 9.5 for
web browsing. A "footprint" icon on the phone
saves photographs along with the GPS location data ("geotagging"),
and the O2 XDA Guide also features pre-installed support
for Google Maps and YouTube.
The presence of an HTC ExtUSB port indicates
that this is an HTC handset. O2 fell out with HTC a
couple of years ago, so perhaps this is a sign that
they have made up. O2 say that the XDA Guide is an exclusive
design, but it does seem to be very closely based on
the HTC
Touch 3G.
There's no mention of physical size
or weight, although we think that the O2 XDA Guide measures
approximately 104 x 54 x 15mm. The battery is a 1110
mAh unit which is the same as most HTC Touch devices.
O2 didn't give any pricing information, but we do know
that the O2 XDA Guide should be available from mid-February
2009 from O2 dealers in Germany.
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O2
XDA Guide at a glance
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Available:
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Q1
2009
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Network:
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GSM
+ UMTS (3G)
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Data:
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GPRS
+ EDGE + UMTS (3G) + HSDPA
+ HSUPA + WiFi
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Screen:
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240
x 320 pixels
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Camera:
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No
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Size:
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PDA-style
device 104 x 54 x 15mm
approx
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Memory
card:
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microSD
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Infra-red:
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Not
specifed
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Limited
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GPS:
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Yes
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Battery
life:
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Not
specified
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