USでWindows Mobile数機種がリリース予定

■Several Windows Mobile phones coming to American fruity carrier

AT&T Wireless is one of those mobile operators (carriers), that got exclusivity deal for iPhone so they seem not to bother with anything else too much: stuff like good tariffs, and offering wide range of handsets... but it looks like it will be changing soon as AT&T is getting soon these Windows Mobile phones (all with touch-screen):


HTC Warhawk : it is the same as HTC Touch Diamond2 but with American 3G bands for AT&T: 850 and 1900; upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5 (mentioned explicitly AT@amp;T!); features "video share calling" what might mean that 3G UMTS video calling comes to USA at last


HTC Fortress : it is the same as HTC Touch Pro2 and interestingly supports more bands than HTC Warhawk: both American 850 and 1900 but also European/Japanese 2100. No upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5 is mentioned.


Samsung Pivot : looks like low-end phone with low-resolution display of 320x240 pixels; 4GB of ROM and 2GB of RAM are impressive and tri-band 3G is worth mentioning too; all in all however a mediocre phone.


HP iPAQ K3 : uses something called "flush touch screen (no stylus)" what might indicate capacitive display but probably just a sensitive resistive display; display of low resolution (320x240) but operating system is supposed to be Windows Mobile 6.5 straight away!; all in all looks like a mediocre handset but it's good to see that it has 3.5 mm stereo miniplug what cannot be said about above mentioned phones.

WM6.5へのアップグレードがあったり、無かったり (^^;