HP Plans First U.S. G PDA-Phone
By Joseph Palenchar -- TWICE, 6/10/2008 12:31:00 PM
Berlin — Hewlett Packard announced plans here to sell 3G
PDA-phones in the
United States for the first time. HP has previously offered 3G phones only outside the
United States.
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The iPaq 900 will be Hewlett-Packard’s first 3G PDA-phone for the U.S. market.
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The new iPaq 900 Business Messenger is due by June 30 in the
United States as an unlocked model at an undisclosed price. International sales will also begin by June 30, the company said during its
Connecting Your World conference. The iPaq 900 will be the company’s first
PDA phone using the Windows Mobile Professional 6.1 OS. The quadband unit operates in GSM/
EDGE mode in the 850/900/1800/1900MHz bands and in 7.2Mbps
high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) mode in the
U.S. 850/1900MHz bands and foreign 2100MHz band. It also features 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR,
GPS and hard QWERTY keyboard. Other features include turn-by-turn driving instructions and 3-megapixel camera that
directly uploads pictures to online photo service Snapfish and other photo services. Built-in
Cyberon Voice Commander and HP Voice Reply technology to enable hands-free emailing and voice control of other device commands. Microsoft Internet Sharing software simplifies connecting to the Internet with a notebook PC in areas where high-speed cellular data networks are available.
The device also supports HP Enterprise Mobility Suite to allow for IT-department setup and over-the-air device management.
