T-Mobile SDA / SDA Music
Discontinued 14th September 2004
We've had a whole load of Windows
smartphones recently, and T-Mobile have added to that
with three devices, the T-Mobile SDA (left) and
SDA Music (right), both variants of the HTC Typhoon
smartphone, better known as the Orange
SPV C500. T-Mobile have also announced the lightweight
MDA
Compact.
Differences between the models appear
to be slight. The SDA music has some additional buttons
for use with Windows Media Player and comes in a slightly
larger housing with stereo MP3 output, but really that's
the extent of the differences.
The other specifications are good, but
exactly the same as the SPV C500, with a 176x220 pixel
display and VGA resolution camera, Bluetooth, and Windows
Mobile 2003 Second Edition and the usual gubbins.
These are good handsets, but you're
going to have to forgive us if we don't dwell on them.
After all, there are so many rebadged HTC handsets around
you really wonder why HTC don't just launch them under
their own name. Expect to see exactly the same phones
from O2, Vodafone and everyone else real soon now.
Expected late 2004/early 2005 in
Europe.
Photograph: T-Mobile
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T-Mobile
SDA / SDA Music at a glance
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Available:
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Now
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Network:
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Tri-band
GSM
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Data:
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GPRS
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Screen:
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176x220
pixels, 65K colours
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Camera:
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640x480
pixels
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Size:
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Standard
"candy bar" format 108x46x15mm
/ 100 grams approx
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Infra-red:
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Yes
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Limited
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Battery
life:
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4
hours talk / 8 days standby
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OS:
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Windows
Mobile 2003 SE
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