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Mio 8380 Smartphone Includes Digital Camera
By the Brighthand News Team
March 8th, 2003

http://www.brighthand.com/article/Mio_8380_Smartphone_Includes_Digital_Camera

The Taiwanese company MiTAC has announced the Mio 8380, a mobile phone that runs Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 operating system. It is the first handset running this OS to include a built-in digital camera.

This is also the first Smartphone 2002 device to use a clamshell design, with the screen on one side and a keypad on the other. The color screen is a 2.2 inch TFT transflective LCD.

This is a tri-band GPRS mobile phone that supports 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz cellular networks, meaning that it can be used virtually anywhere in the world. It offers SMS text-based messaging and MMS multimedia messaging.

Besides conventional cell phone-based voice calls and messaging, the Mio 8380 also supports high-speed wireless access to e-mail and the Web through an MSN Messenger client and a version of Internet Explorer.

It includes a MPEG-4 encoder/decoder and a media player to handle multimedia content such as MP3 music.

This smartphone has an SD card slot for memory expansion. It's 110-kilopixel camera includes a digital zoom.

Smartphone 2002 is a version of the Windows CE operating system specially redesigned for mobile phones. All handsets running this OS have a 220 by 176 pixel screen and a joystick for user input, not a touch screen.