As noted last month, the PDA market is currently dying on its knees, with sales down 43% in the last year alone. In response to this, HP is further shifting the focus of its iPAQ PDA brand toward the smartphone market, with the announcement of two new handsets: the iPAQ 600 Business Navigator and 900 Business Messenger.
The decidedly feature-rich Windows Mobile 6 devices both offer integrated Assisted GPS (A-GPS), quad-band GSM/ GPRS/ EDGE, and tri-band HSDPA, 802.11b/g wi-fi, USB 2.0 and Bluetooth 2.0. The 900 sports a QWERTY keyboard, 3MP camera, 2.46″ 320 x 240 pixel 65,000-colour screen, 128MB RAM and a microSD slot. The 600 ups the screen to 2.8″ and adds touch-sensitivity as it loses the keyboard, and keeps the camera and card slot.
Coming complete with Office Mobile, these might be business-oriented handsets — and a little on the grey ‘n’ chunky side — but you can’t argue with specs like those.
