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Orange launches yet another Microsoft phone


http://www.jp.dk/itogc/ncom:aid=2108076/
(translated)

The phone company Orange has launched the third in a row of Microsoft based SPV mobile phones. But contrary to the two previous ones, which were mobile phones with pda capabilities, the new SPV 2020 is a pda with build-in mobile phone.

By its looks, the new phone appears as a handheld computer. It is equipped with a 65,000 color resolution touch-screen and operated with a pen. The system, running it, is Microsoft Pocket PC 2003 Phone Edition - a modified version that also runs other hand-helds like HP's Ipaq. Phone Edition contains, as the name implies, software to make phone calls etc.

It also supports all the known pda functions, like Explorer, Outlook, Word, Excel and Messenger. SPV has, furthermore, a built-in VGA camera and can communicate with other wireless devices, like a headset, via Bluetooth.

The phone is - like other SPV-phones - produced by the Taiwan company HTC (High Tech Computer Corporation), the producer, also of HP's Ipaq.

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