Mr.Gadget Australia: o2 XDA IIs PocketPC Mobile Phone

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

o2 XDA IIs PocketPC Mobile Phone

Take your office with you - O2 Xda IIs includes all the Pocket PC tools you need to keep fully organised on the move, such as Calendar, Contacts and Tasks, at the touch of a button. I've got an o2 XDA II and the idea of having inbuilt WiFi and WM2003SE is very tempting indeed...let's see how long I hold out!

Designed to be the ultimate handheld device for work or leisure use, the O2 XDA IIs provides the 'X-factor' that keeps you always connected and lets you get things done no matter where you are. As one of the most powerful handhelds on the market, the Xda IIs gives you more control over the way you work and play.

The new o2 XDA IIs is a Pocket PC with a built-in mobile phone. Run on the Second Edition of Microsoft's Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC Phone Edition operating system. The new model adds Wi-Fi (802.11b) to its predecessor's Bluetooth and infrared, bringing it right up to date as far as wireless connectivity is concerned. These features coupled with a built-in digital camera make the XDA IIs a feature packed handset.

Dimensions of the o2 XDA IIs:
71.6 (W) x 125 (L) x 18.7 (T) mm approx. 210g

Special Features of the o2 XDA IIs:

- Integrated personal digital organiser and mobile phone
- Quad-band (GSM 850900/1800/1900)
- GPRS class B Multislot class 10
- Built-in Bluetooth
- SDIO
- Instant Message (IM), short (long) message (SMS) and multimedia message service (MMS)
- Full internet browsing
- VGA camera (640 x 480 pixels)
- MPEG4 camcoder
- MP3 media player
- Speakerphone and voice recorder facility
- Removable and chargeable Lithium-Ion Polymer Battery, 1490 mAH
- Key lock support by software
- SIM Toolkit
- Support for WAP 2.0 browser and xHTML
- Handwriting recognition

Hardware on the o2 XDA IIs PocketPC:
- Processor Type: Intel Xscale PXA263, 400MHz
-128 MB SDRAM, 64 MB ROM
- 3.5" Transflective 65,536 colour LCD (240 x 320 pixels)
- VGA Camera
Supports image formats JPG, BMP
Supports video formats MPEG4, H.263, Motion-JPEG AVI
CMOS Chip: VGA (640 x 480 pixels)
Minimum scene illumination: 5 lux
Frame rate: 15fps
- PBCCH
- Power on/off button
- Volume up/down button (2way)
- 8 programmable buttons
- 2 phone buttons
- 5-way navigation button
- 39-key QWERTY keyboard
- Soft reset switch
- One external antenna connector
- One MMC & SD/IO slot
- One Infrared Port
- One Signal port for USB, serial,, power and audio
- Red/yellow/green LED for radio/charger indication on the RIGHT
- Blue/Green LED for Bluetooth/Wireless LAN indication on the LEFT

Built-in Software packaged with the o2 XDA IIs:
- Windows Mobile 2003 2nd Edition for Pocket PC phone edition
- Includes Pocket Outlook, Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, Window Media Player, Microsoft Reader andActiveSync
- Multimedia Messaging integrated with Pocket Outlook
- Wireless modem for USB, serial Bluetooth and IR
- Photo caller ID
- Powerpoint (PPT) viewer
- PDF viewer
- Camera capture utility
- XBackup
- 32 chords Polyphonic MIDI ringtone
- Games - jawbreaker, solitaire

Additional Software on the o2 XDA IIs:
- Fonix Voicedial v2.0, for voice dialling function
- ZIP Manager v1.11, for managing and creating ZIP archives
- KSE Truefax v2.08 for Windows Mobile 2003 2nd Edition, for sending and receiving faxes
- SPB GPRS Monitor, to record usage of GPRS

Download the o2 XDAIIs User Guide here

You can order your o2 XDA IIs Pocket PC/Mobile Phone here at Mr.Gadget!

5 Comments:

At Monday, 11 April, 2005, SHAWKAT said…

Hi,
I have found 4 un known format files in my o2 XDA IIS Pocket PC named:
1. aPermanent.exe
2. cPermanent.exe
3. nPermanent.exe
4. tPermanent.exe

I suspected those filed to be virus, thus have run following antivirus softwares:

1. Airscanner Mobile Antivirus 2.0
2. Symantec Anti-virus for Handhelds

but none of those were able to detect those files as virus. Are these files viruses? Or something else. If these are virus, what anti-virus should I use? Pls suggest.
At Saturday, 04 June, 2005, Frank67 said…

These programs save your e.g.
contacts, appointments, todo´s and
connections , permanent to your storage.

If you use(d) the settings in
Start-> Settings ->System->SavePermanent
it will add shortcuts to your
autostart folder too....

no virus on this ;)
At Friday, 10 June, 2005, Anonymous said…

Good Day!
Just want to know how to use or activate the speakerphone on my xdaIIs. and also how can an mp3 become a ringtone. is it possible?

Thanks in advance.
At Friday, 10 June, 2005, Mr_Gadget said…

Hi Anonymous,

Very ease; during a call simply press the Answer button (with the green phone symbol) for around three seconds. You'll see a handsfree symbol appear at the top of your screen.

Out of the box, you cannot use MP3 as ringtones. You can however use WAV and MID files. Just convert your MP3 to one of these formats - search on Google for converters.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,
Arnold
At Thursday, 01 September, 2005, ksz said…

hi, i am having so much trouble with my o2s i can't seem to get sound out of the windows media player after roughly 5 to 8 songs, it hangs. i am forced to do either a hard or soft reset to get the sound on again. all incoming phone call will not ring, but the call will get thru if i pick it up. the strange thing is - i can take the call on speaker and i t will work, is it just the media player?