HP Glisten Ipaq Mobile Phone
November 26, 2009
HP have announced their latest Ipaq phone, the HP Glisten Ipaq Mobile Phone, which has been designed for businessmen. It is supposed to be a feature-packed mobile handset.
The Glisten Ipaq has a 2.5” touchscreen as well as a QWERTY keyboard. The touchscreen is an AMOLED one. A 5-way directional keypad is also present in the handheld. Plenty of multimedia features are supposed to be present in this handheld too. A 3.2MP camera is built-in as well.
The handset is based on the Windows Mobile 6.5 OS. An improved web browser with support for Flash is supposed to have been integrated into the device. Mobile Office is supported and you can view Outlook, Word, Excel, PDF and PowerPoint documents. This mobile phone is also supposed to offer a variety of networking options and is said to provide a familiar and consistent email support. GPS ability, with turn-by-turn navigation is supposed to be supported too.
The HP Glisten Ipaq Smartphone has been confirmed for a US release with a price tag of $230. The device will be available with AT&T network operator. According to a senior HP official, HP’s success strategy in developing the Ipaq business and consumer base is in partnering with the leaders of the industry like Microsoft and AT&T and leveraging their collective strengths in both business and prosumer markets.
A UK release has not been mentioned as of now.
HP iPAQ hw6515 Mobile Messenger Mobile Phone
December 29, 2008
This mobile phone smartly combines a quad band GSM/GPRS mobile phone and a sharp GPS receiver in a single device that comes boosted by Windows Mobile operating system. The display screen of this mobile phone is a remarkable contraption being sized 3” diagonally and studded with 240 x 240 pixel resolution, making this mobile phone the first Windows smartphone with such a resolution factor. More, this screen is boasts of a smoky grey coloured plastic shield protection. To add to its security factors, HP iPAQ hw6515 Mobile Messenger Smartphone sports a finger print recognition programme as well. Apart from this striking screen, this mobile phone also features a half QWERTY keypad, a 5 way joystick and a stylus for the TFT partial touchscreen, fortified by Active Matrix technology.
This Windows smartphone that is driven by a 312 Mhz Xscale PXA270 processor of Intel, offers swift connectivity for internet accessing, text messaging and wireless telephony. Simplified dat Sync is realised through Bluetooth. This part of the mobile phone is well complimented by the 56MB on-board memory of it that can be further expanded using its SD and MiniSD memory slots. GPRS data downloader is enhanced here by the inclusion of EDGE. However, definitely one among the prime attractions of this smartphone, if not the prime, is its built-in GPS receiver. The GPS receiver of this smartphone comes with Tomtom navigation software, though a conspicuous absence of some kind of maps protrudes as a major glitch. Anyway, the user can always purchase them or download a free city map logging on to Tomtom website.
HP iPAQ hw6515 Mobile Messenger GPS Mobile Phone also throws something at the easy-go-lucky folks, in the form of a 1.3MP integrated digital camera that offers video capturing at up to a resolution of 352 x 288 pixels and a music player that plays MP3 format. Its camera further offers a LED flash, apart from other features like scene effects and self timer. A set of 2.5mm headset jacks compliment the music player. A load of applications also comes handy here.
Hewlett Packard iPAQ 514 Mobile Phone
August 11, 2008
A determined attempt from the Hewlett Packard premises with a view to torpedo the rival smartphones with a power packed device. This gadget, shrouded by the economy armour and tagged Hewlett Packard iPAQ 514 Quad Band Mobile Phone has recently hit the market with a boom. The interface, a smart Windows Mobile 6 Operating System welcomes the user with high profile delicacies like the MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint to cater as in an E-Ten Glowfiish X650 Mobile Phone.
Targets Business People
With the induction of MS OS version 6 in the phone, HP has extended an open invitation to the business users. The user is allowed to comfortably read, scan or reply to E-mails of MS Exchange, POP3 and IMAP formats. Replying to E-mails by VoiceReply is an augmented option here. In addition, a remarkable voice command feature that facilitates the user to create a voice valet using up to 20 independent user voice commands. Further, the user can save his valuable wireless airtime, when at office engaging the VoIP call-making concept. A Bluetooth headset as well as an integrated handsdfree speakerphone relieves the user from proximity bonds. The phone smartly exploits the capabilities of GSM, EDGE and GPRS but still falls short of gaining appreciable speed mainly for the absence of the 3G. Nowadays the market is flooded with lightning quick HSDPA phones such as the UBiQUiO 503G Mobile Phone. WiFi support is also available in the device as a token of compensation.
Nominal Amusement Features
This package offered by the Hewlett Packard iPAQ 514 Bluetooth Mobile Phone includes a 1.3 MP HP Photosmart phone integrated camera and an audio player that facilitates playback of MP3 and WMA files, a mere trifle for the Nokia N82 Mobile Phone. However, the 2” Micro-reflective TFT colour screen with LED backlight gives the sector a breather. Not to forget a strong battery that delivers a workhorse like performance, think, up to 6 hours talk time and 188 hours standby.
Other important Features
iPAQ Data Connect from HP
iPAQ ShortCuts from HP
Voice Commands from Cyberon
MMS composer
An optional UMA Client
