PREVIEW: O2 Xda IIi PocketPC Phone Edition 2003 SE

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On Wednesday's press conference, O2 showed their next Pocket PC Phone Edition device, the Xda IIi, first time publicly. Basically, as previously said, the Xda IIi comes in the same housing as the previous Xda II and the differences are in the details.

- includes an Intel Bulverde CPU, running 520 MHz

- supports W-LAN

- supports Bluetooth using the Widcomm Bluetooth stack, already introduced with the Xda IIs/III

- includes a 1.3 Megapixel camera

- will be released with Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition for Pocket PC Phone Edition containing AKU2 which supports Windows Media 10 Mobile

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O2 Xda IIi - it looks like Xda II but has Wi-Fi, faster processor and megapixel camera

It looks like XDA II, feels like XDA II but is not XDA II! It's XDA IIi !

O2 Europe announced upcoming XDA III and XDA IIi already on September 15, 2004, but now first review appears:

All together the Xda IIi is a worthy follower of the Xda II and it makes the best selling Pocket PC Phone Edition even better. Adding Wi-Fi support was a must because this was the most missing feature for most of today's Xda II users. The 1.3 Megapixel camera is state of the art for mobile phones and talking about the mobile phone features: the Intelli technology makes it a real mobile phone now - the first time I feel comfortable to use a Pocket PC Phone Edition as a mobile phone (just to make it complete: T-Mobiles MDA compact also includes HTC's Intelli technology already).

A price wasn't given yet and the release is expected for end of December/during January.

link to hardware review