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O2 XDA Guide

 O2 XDA Guide Discontinued
17th December 2008

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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.

 O2 XDA Guide Footprint 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

Available:

Q1 2009

Network:

GSM + UMTS (3G)

Data:

GPRS + EDGE + UMTS (3G) +
HSDPA + HSUPA + WiFi

Screen:

240 x 320 pixels

Camera:

No

Size:

PDA-style device
104 x 54 x 15mm approx

Bluetooth:

Yes

Memory card:

microSD

Infra-red:

Not specifed

Polyphonic:

Yes

Java:

Limited

GPS:

Yes

Battery life:

Not specified

 

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