Guest Monolithix Posted March 4, 2008 Report Posted March 4, 2008 [teaser]OK, so it's only a dummy handset...and it's locked up in a glass box, but T-Mobile are finally showing off the heir to the Compact throne. Spec's are still on the light side, but it looks like the MDA Compact IV will be sporting the followingVGA touch screenGPS (both as expected...)4GB internal storageFlush screen bezel a la HTC's Touch range7.2Mbps HSDPABut, here's the interesting thing: those look like the home and back key's normally found on WinMo Standard/Smartphone devices!. So what's going on? Click through for more pics and info![/teaser] The MDA Compact range traditionally run Windows Mobile Professional/PocketPC, so it's surprising to see the latest model apparently switching to Standard. However on a closer look at the pictures (check out the read link below) it seems there is a stylus slotted in and that it is indeed a touchscreen. If it is Standard where is the keypad? Either we'll be seeing a hacked in SIP of some description, or we have an extremely thin slider on our hands! Release is touted for May 08, I think this is going to be a winner when it launches! [Phonemag]
Guest idavid Posted March 4, 2008 Report Posted March 4, 2008 if that has a keyboard i'll have one, my new mda plus will have to go straight on ebay. :D
Guest spacerace Posted March 5, 2008 Report Posted March 5, 2008 yes i'm trying to decide if it might be a slider or not. more pics at engadget
Guest xorangefirex Posted March 5, 2008 Report Posted March 5, 2008 I am really hoping for a suretype keyboard on this little beauty. The shadow is a great option(and my intended backup phone), but you cannot beat a VGA touchscreen with GPS.
Guest NuShrike Posted March 5, 2008 Report Posted March 5, 2008 Speculation is it's a Shadow II, so it should be a slider.
Guest ZSX Posted March 5, 2008 Report Posted March 5, 2008 Speculation is it's a Shadow II, so it should be a slider. MDA Compact I = HTC Magician MDA Compact II = HTC Charmer MDA Compact III = HTC Artemis The MDA Compact range have always been Pocket PCs with no hardware keyboard, so my suspicion is that this is not a slider. Based completely on conjecture, could this be the device where the Pocket PC and Smartphone OSes eventually collapse into a Windows Mobile singularity using elements of both?
Guest Monolithix Posted March 5, 2008 Report Posted March 5, 2008 I didn't think WinMo 7 was due until next year though?
Guest ZSX Posted March 5, 2008 Report Posted March 5, 2008 I didn't think WinMo 7 was due until next year though? The blurb by the phone from one of the Engadget photos says "Mit neuestem Microsoft Betriebssystem". Read of that what you will, but does that mean WM 6.1, 6.5 or 7.0?
Guest Monolithix Posted March 5, 2008 Report Posted March 5, 2008 That would appear to be the question everyone wants to know the answer to! We've seen 6.1 floating around and it's nothing special, so presumably it's 6.5 or 7...
Guest n20nine Posted March 5, 2008 Report Posted March 5, 2008 hmm...what if...it indeed is a slider..i am guessing its a slider coz there is a gap between the screen and the d-pad and buttons....perhaps the screen slides up? wud be interesting then..
Guest JAkub Scholz Posted March 5, 2008 Report Posted March 5, 2008 I guess its a Windws Mobile Profesional like device with touchscreen. The same buttons are also on the pictures/renders of the new ASUS P560 (link - in czech language) which is also suposed to be a device with touchscreen. So maybe it has something to do with the new versions of Windows Mobile or with some kind of new user interface.
Guest idavid Posted March 5, 2008 Report Posted March 5, 2008 yeah, the more i think about it the less likely it'll have a keyboard of any kind. sad. :D
Guest ZSX Posted March 5, 2008 Report Posted March 5, 2008 I guess its a Windws Mobile Profesional like device with touchscreen. The same buttons are also on the pictures/renders of the new ASUS P560 (link - in czech language) which is also suposed to be a device with touchscreen. So maybe it has something to do with the new versions of Windows Mobile or with some kind of new user interface. Well spotted! The Asus P560 is quite clearly running Windows Mobile 6 (with the Start menu in the upper left), despite having a smartphone key configuration, and the sign next to it confirms this. I have always been a fan of the Smartphone button combo, and I guess it would be quite trivial to replicate this on a Pocket PC, with the 'home' button going to the today screen and the 'back' button being like 'OK'.
Guest mr.wilson Posted March 7, 2008 Report Posted March 7, 2008 :( :D :( :( like how much is it becaz i have the first one and i like that new one so tell me as soon as you can plz
Guest S710demon Posted March 7, 2008 Report Posted March 7, 2008 It is not available yet and the price is not known at the moment.
Guest Perfectionist Posted March 11, 2008 Report Posted March 11, 2008 Excellent News !! Wasn't expecting the 4Gb of built in Memory, does it still has a MicroSD slot though ?? Would I be right in assuming it will have TouchFlo ??
Guest Monolithix Posted March 11, 2008 Report Posted March 11, 2008 Right on both accounts iirc... Edit - although thinking about it, we don't specifically know its a HTC device yet! :D
Guest Ovie Posted March 11, 2008 Report Posted March 11, 2008 I doubt it will have a keyboard of any sort, as T Mobile's Compact range never has had a keyboard; only the Vario range. Also, I doubt it's WM Standard just because it has a home and back button. You can vaguely see the stylus in some photos, and I doubt a screen that large would not include touch screen! It's also flush with the device (I think) which is what a lot of touch-based interfaces have these days aka HTC Touch.
Guest Perfectionist Posted March 14, 2008 Report Posted March 14, 2008 As this has a VGA screen ..... would all my old QVGA software need to be upgraded ..... or would it all still run ok ??
Guest Monolithix Posted March 15, 2008 Report Posted March 15, 2008 In theory it should run fine, VGA just increases the DPI used by the graphics, the relative "size" of the stuff on the screen stays the same
Guest timeline Posted April 2, 2008 Report Posted April 2, 2008 Great specs. Wonder if they're smart enuf to do 128RAM instead of the still prevalent 64MB...
Guest TheNerd Posted April 16, 2008 Report Posted April 16, 2008 Turmoil! I was just about to purchase an HTC Touch Cruise when I find out the screen is a paltry so yesteryear QVGA. :D After having an MDA Vario for a couple of years and using the slide out keyboard about three times in total I realise the extra bulk added from an unnecessary and fairly unusable keyboard could be discarded and a much slimmer, sexier, pocketable device would be on the cards - bring on the Touch Cruise. However after discovering the bombshell weakness of a 320x240 screen I am pondering alternatives... Then I visit a T-Mobile store and whilst trying to get details of upcoming phones the manager tells me about this MDA Compact 4, so I get back home and search Modaco for the low down. Bingo. This device looks perfect. I just hope I can get it on my current tariff rather than have some crippling sky high iPhone-like rip off bill. Slim, big screen VGA, Bluetooth, WiFI, fast processor and plenty of memory. I wish the GPS chipset would be the leagues-above-all-others Sirf Star III, but it looks from first impressions that this will be the phone for me whatever. Where is it? When? And how much? Details please anybody.
Guest Perfectionist Posted April 16, 2008 Report Posted April 16, 2008 Yup, I'm getting this the second it becomes available ! Hopefully in May (just in time for my birthday!)
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