Nokia 7710 became announced in November 2004. It is important to know about the history of this class. A year back, Nokia introduced Nokia 7700 with new media features and developer platform. The key point was the presence of a touchscreen which Nokia always lacked. The product failed before release because of some technical problems in the touchscreen and a non-touchscreen version was released which was just more than a dummy. Feeling the importance of touchscreen, Nokia tried again and now came-up with 7710.

A new concept

After a long time, Siemens has introduced a totally new and impressive concept to the cell phone market. There is a class of users who are only interested in the email functionality of the cell phone. So, there is a good news for them, its siemens sk65 announced on 2 August 2004, given the slogan as “first mobile phone to offer complete e-mail management”. There are cell phones in market that are specific for e-mail users, such as Nokia 6820, Sonyericsson P900. But, this one will take you a lot more close to perfection.

i-mate PDA2k is produced by HTC. Functionally, i-mate PDA2k is identical to Qtek 9090, O2 XDA IIs, T-Mobile MDA III and Orange SPV M2000. i-mate PDA2k is an impressive PDA although its a bit bigger than ipaq. Basic specifications are appreciable that include quad band support with GPRS, expandable QWERTY keyboard, built-in wifi and bluetooth. Lets get into details

Features

Boundaries of i-mate PDA2k are 125 x 71 x 18 mm with 210g weight and a 320 x 240 pixel touchscreen. Its somewhat big and heavy but easily acceptable for PDA users. The most important features are its keyboard and phone features which beautifully extend the PDA. i-mate PDA2k is based over windows platform with 64Mb RAM and 128Mb ROM. There is SDIO/MMC card slots which allow you to add other components such as memory modules, GPS, NIC to your PDA. GSM/GPRS and wifi availability provide you maximum connectivity to the network while microsoft pocket pc OS allows you to use a huge range of applications.