REVIEW: O2 Xda cosmo Windows Mobile Smartphone

Published: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:39:47 +0200



Soon
to be released by O2 Germany and
recently announced by HTC, the O2 Xda cosmo
(previously known as HTC Excalibur and now, also known as HTC S620) is something
completely new for HTC since it follows the BlackBerry idea - a mobile phone
with a QWERTY keyboard as also available by Motorola as the Motorola Q and Samsung
as the Samsung SGH-i320.
Feature-wise, the Xda cosmo includes everything you might expect from a state of
the art Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone. It's powered by TI OMAP 850 CPU with 201
MHz, features quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0 with stereo support, WiFi b
and g connectivity (but excludes UMTS and IrDA), 128 MB ROM, 64 MB RAM which is
extendable through microSD cards and a 1.3 megapixel camera for photos and
videos. It's sporting a 2.4 inch QVGA landscape display supporting 65k colors.
The Xda cosmo measures 111.5 x 62.5 x 12.8 mm which makes it pretty flat. As
introduced before, with the HTC TyTN and HTC MTeoR, also the Excalibur isn't
sporting a separate headset jack anymore but the HTC's slightly different
looking mini USB jack is used instead - which HTC is calling now "HTC ExtUSB"
and which is even trademarked now.




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