Giorgia's Notebook

"The mobile phone network's German wing last week said it would show the devices at next week's CeBIT show. It did not say when the handsets will ship. However, Universal isn't expected to arrive until the summer, when it will certainly appear as the T-Mobile MDA IV, and as a member of Orange's SPV smart phone line-up.

The Universal is the first Windows Mobile device said to provide 3G compatibility. It's a PDA-sized product with a 640 x 480 display that can be swivelled and rotated round to allow the unit to be operated either as a tablet or as a clamshell. The unit sports a QWERTY keyboard, stereo speakers and twin digital cameras for still photography and video-calls. In addition to 3G and regular 800, 1800 and 1900MHz GSM/GPRS operation, Universal can connect to Wi-Fi networks and incorporates Bluetooth. The device is powered by a 520MHz Intel XScale processor."

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