GPS PDA Phone preferences

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Kasha

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Hi, sorry tried searching with no luck....

I'm looking at a small PDA GPS phone. I dont want anything too chunky (eg palm treo 750 size etc). The ones I'm looking at are:

Dopod p800w (or HTC p3300 - same phone)
Eten x500
Asus p535 (dont think this is out yet).

All are relatively small (~11cm x 6cm x 1.5-2cm).
All have a 2.8" screen 320 x 240 (only 65k colours)
All are only tri or quad band GSM.
All run windows mobile 5
All have equivalent GPS transponders/recievers
Price is about the same RRP all ~$1.1 - 1.3k

The biggest difference is the processor (and therefore ability of the GPS to plan routes quickly and operate generally faster).


It sounds like the Asus is the most powerful (runs an intel 520MHz processor) and has 256Mb on board memory but it's also the thickest 2cm. Plus it isnt out yet.

The Eten X500 has a 400MHz samsung processor but has been criticised as it's not user friendly - ie no 'ok' button or 'windows' button - hard to use with one hand. Looks the least nice.

The dopod/HTC one looks the best but has the slowest processor 200MHz.


Thing is that win mobile 6 is out and eten has developed a x500+ which runs a better resolution screen 640 x 480. I guess like all technology the longer you wait the more and more better things come out.


What do you think?

Thanks!


http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Eten-Glofiish-X500-Review-review-r_1699.html

http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/HTC-P3300-Artemis-Review-review-r_1747.html

Eten X500


Dopod P800W / HTC P3300


Asus P535
 
I'm in Australia and none of these phones are available on plan (well ok I lie, 1 is but I want to stick with my current carrier).

ie will buy the phone outright
 
LOL why would you care about the carrier as long as its gsm? HTC/Eten/Gigabyte phones are mostly unlocked anyways.


look at the Gigabyte g-Smart i300
 
Because he didn't say he was GSM or where he was goign to use it. Many people don't know the difference between CDMA and GSM. Plus it is always best to pick a carrier then pick the phone, not the other way around.
 
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