HP’s “Me Too” Smartphone: iPAQ hw6920 Series For Cingular
The new wave of smartphones from Motorola, BlackBerry, Nokia and Palm lately has all but swamped smaller, business-focused players like HP.
HP’s new iPAQ hw6920 series puts them back in the running. Running Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, it has just about all the alphabet-soup technologies you might be looking for: GSM/GPRS/EDGE/GPS/WiFi plus Bluetooth. (GPS service required.)
But it hasn’t got that slenderiffic form factor of the new-wave phones like the Motorola Q (the HP is 18mm thick versus 11.5 for the Q) but there are users who’d rather have something big enough to provide a more comfortable keyboard and more to hold on to. It’s certainly heavier to hold - 179 grams versus 115 grams for the Q.
HP is clearly less worried about form factor, and all about designing PDA phones for business. Which is why there will be two versions of this phone - one with a camera, and one without - for security-conscious businesses. The phone will be available “soon” - directly from HP, or you can get it straight from Cingular’s business unit, at a price (we’re told) of about $360 with a two year deal.
[via Electronista]
October 25th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
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