Wednesday, September 1, 2004
VGA Goodness Coming Soon? Dell Axim X50 and Asus A730
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 09:00 AM
One of the hotly anticipated features of Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition Pocket PC was the support for VGA resolutions - some three years after the first Palm-based units trumped the QVGA resolution Pocket PCs had mind you - but something we've all been looking forward to. Yet where are the devices? The hx4700 is still "coming soon", but it looks like two other devices may be hot on its heals. Ed at Brighthand dug through the FCC documents and uncovered some hard specifications on the Dell Axim X50:
"More information on the handhelds in the X50 series has been found in the FCC filing. One model will have a 3.7-inch, 640-by-480-pixel (VGA) screen, a 624 MHz Intel XScale processor, and either 128 MB or 64 MB of RAM. A second model will have a 3.5-inch, 240-by-320-pixel (QVGA) screen, a 520 MHz XScale processor, and 64 MB of RAM."
Tom's Hardware took a sneak peek at the forthcoming A730. The A730 will have a 3.7" VGA screen, but it's unfortunate that WiFi will be lacking. All hope is not lost, however, as there's a model coming out that I hadn't heard of yet:
"If you think Asus packed WLAN into this pocket PC, you'd be wrong. The only device that will get this feature is the top-of-the-line model Mypal A730W (11 Mbps according to the 802.11b standard). The A730W will be available starting in October, and its 128 megabytes mean it will have more than double the RAM of the A730. At present, however, Asus is unable to give us an exact price tag for the model."
When are these VGA units coming out? No dates have been announced, but history has shown that when a device gets the FCC approval, it usually comes out fairly soon after, so my hunch is that we'll see these devices before the end of the year, which will make for a great holiday shopping season. Start saving! :wink:
"More information on the handhelds in the X50 series has been found in the FCC filing. One model will have a 3.7-inch, 640-by-480-pixel (VGA) screen, a 624 MHz Intel XScale processor, and either 128 MB or 64 MB of RAM. A second model will have a 3.5-inch, 240-by-320-pixel (QVGA) screen, a 520 MHz XScale processor, and 64 MB of RAM."
Tom's Hardware took a sneak peek at the forthcoming A730. The A730 will have a 3.7" VGA screen, but it's unfortunate that WiFi will be lacking. All hope is not lost, however, as there's a model coming out that I hadn't heard of yet:
"If you think Asus packed WLAN into this pocket PC, you'd be wrong. The only device that will get this feature is the top-of-the-line model Mypal A730W (11 Mbps according to the 802.11b standard). The A730W will be available starting in October, and its 128 megabytes mean it will have more than double the RAM of the A730. At present, however, Asus is unable to give us an exact price tag for the model."
When are these VGA units coming out? No dates have been announced, but history has shown that when a device gets the FCC approval, it usually comes out fairly soon after, so my hunch is that we'll see these devices before the end of the year, which will make for a great holiday shopping season. Start saving! :wink:
