Windows Mobile 5 PDA Phone With 3.5G, Anyone?

Believed to be the latest innovation, Dopod 838 Pro is a PDA phone running Windows Mobile 5, sporting a support for Tri-band UMTS with high-speed HSDPA (High-Speed Data Packet Access), a 3.5G wireless network that supports up to 10 times the bandwidth of current 3G networks and at the same time featuring a sliding QWERTY keyboard.

All the usual bells and whistles are there too. Bluetooth with A2DP and AVRCP(Stereo quality music lovers will love it), 802-11b/g Wi-Fi, Quadband GSM radio with GPRS and EDGE, Dual cameras (2.0-megapixel primary, 0.1-megapixel secondary for video calls), micro-SD card slot (hot-swappable), 65K color, 2.8-inch QVGA LCD (240 x 320 pixels) and with the support for 3.5G, this handset is definitely a long-term investment at the price of SGD$1,398 or SGD$1,248 (with 2-year contract).


Dopod 595

Smaller in size and weight, the Dopod 595 is quite different its big brother, featuring Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Edition, 3G WCDMA (UMTS), Tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz) with GPRS and EDGE+. Other specifications include 1.3-megapixel primary camera and 0.1-megapixel secondary (but Dopod 595 strangely does not support video calls), 65K color, 2.2-inch QVGA LCD (240 x 320 pixels), Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP and AVRCP, micro-SD slot (hot swappable). Missing the 802-11b/g Wi-Fi, the Dopod 595 is priced at SGD$998 or SGD$848 (with 2-year contract).

As you can see, the brothers are quite different from each other. They are even running at different processor speeds (click here for more specs). Your decision to shell out the dough for the Dopod 838 Pro will mark you as 'The One' to hold the latest and arguably the best gadget available now for your hands.