Windows Mobile phones are getting more and more powerful. At this rate, soon you can confidently leave your laptop at home. (Yes, probably you don't need the foleo). Phones are coming with more storage space, much larger screens and integrated features which were only available through external accessories earlier.
O2 XDA Flame is probably the most advanced Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone ever conceived. The most important differentiator is the NVIDIA GoForce 5500 GPU used to display video on the phone. A separate GPU helps the O2 Flame to render fluid video and deliver high quality audio. The other striking aspects of this smartphone are:
- A powerful Intel Xscale 520 MHz application processor
- USB-on-the go, which helps you to connect USB drives just like the way you connect them to your PC!
- 3G support
- A 3.6 inch VGA display (Yes, 640×480 resolution!)
- A whopping 2 GB on board memory (plus microSD expansion slot)
- 2 Megapixel auto-focus camera (At last, in a WM phone!)
- TV Out facillity!
Thats a lot for a mobile phone, isn't it? Because of its high end features, this phone will cost a bomb when it is released sometime this month. But then, there is a niche class who are ready to shell out anything for such a high end phone. They will keep this market alive!
On the negative side, eventhough it is a 3g phone, it lacks HSDPA and more importantly, it is missing the GPS, which is an essential feature in a high end phone.
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Who is the manufacturer? Is it Quanta. The deisgn elements look like o2 Atom.
No. it is manufactured by a Taiwanese company called Arima Communications.
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