Windows Phone Thoughts: The Register Review HTC's 'Magician' Pocket PC Phone

"It's not hard to see why Taiwanese manufacturer HTC calls its latest PocketPC-based phone 'Magician'. Its new handset does indeed work magic: it looks and feels like a traditional PDA yet it's no bigger than some of the smallest smart phones around. . . . [The XDA IIs] makes a great PDA. But it's a poor handset for exactly the same reason: it's too big. . . . PalmOne's Treo, Sony Ericsson's P910 and, to a lesser extent, RIM's Blackberry 7100 sit between these two extremes, but they still have screen size and/or device size compromises. Magician pulls off the trick of delivering both features at once."



Tony Smith from the Register has reviewed the HTC Magician and seems to be quite impressed with it. He commends the device's ergonomics and screen and says that even without tri-band GSM/GPRS, infrared, Bluetooth, SMS, MMS, email and instant messaging, it would still make a rather good standalone PDA. Balanced against this are a few niggles, such as only having a 416Mhz processor and the difficulty of using WM2003SE one-handed. So how many of you guys are using the Magician at the moment? Is it magical, middling or mediocre?