Next gen Harrier...

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#5271 14-Oct-2005 09:47

... I heard rumor of this at Thrive on Wednesday. The Telecom sales team were doing a good job. So does anybody have any information on this upcoming phone - is it going to be as sexy as the P990????

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#21504 14-Oct-2005 09:56

They are talking about the HTC Apache Pocket PC Phone Edition, to be called (in good Telecom tradition of not changing code names) simply "Apache". It's the same as the Sprint PPC-6670 and looks like this:

It runs Windows Mobile 5.0, and connects to CDMA EV-DO.

It will be available sometime in October, the rumours are that it was pushed back one or two weeks. I've seem one working on Telecom's network, and played with the Sprint one while in the USA.

I am in the line to get one for a review and will post more information on Geekzone when this is available.

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#21506 14-Oct-2005 10:02

It doesnt actually look that bad! Was it much chunkier then the Harrier, and please say it has MMS - I could not believe the Harrier did not have MMS it was the phones only shortcoming in my opinion. That and I could seem to get mini firefox working... When will they learn that the customer (me in this case) might not actually want to use IE! Power to the people!

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#21508 14-Oct-2005 10:17

Thrive? whats that?

it is coming, the keypad looks like that of the jasjar where as the k-jam has isolated buttons. A play with the k-jam @ the vodafone roadshow (sorry i know this is the telecom thread) was promising a pity its edge and not umts (3g) but the buttons were isolated rather than just raised off a predominately flat keypad.

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#21509 14-Oct-2005 10:23

mufasa: It doesnt actually look that bad! Was it much chunkier then the Harrier, and please say it has MMS - I could not believe the Harrier did not have MMS it was the phones only shortcoming in my opinion. That and I could seem to get mini firefox working... When will they learn that the customer (me in this case) might not actually want to use IE! Power to the people!

It is smaller than the Harrier - a bit lighter.

As for browsers, you have options: look for Access Netfront or Thunderhawk. Don't even think of Minimo - the software is in alpha stages and going very slowly!

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#21516 14-Oct-2005 14:35

There is no MMS support on Apache.

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#21517 14-Oct-2005 14:36

You have got to be kidding

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#21518 14-Oct-2005 14:39

Why would I be kidding? I am looking at my Apache now and there is no MMS client. You can however email photos.

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#21519 14-Oct-2005 14:46

Ahhh *bliss* another reason to have Vodafone... hehehe *tease tease*

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#21520 14-Oct-2005 14:50

Does anyone have a release date? I am assuming Telecom has some of these units out fro testing by users??

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#21521 14-Oct-2005 14:58

I just cant believe it doesnt have MMS...

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#21522 14-Oct-2005 15:18

Am I the only one that really don't mind not having MMS on a mostly business-oriented device?

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#21524 14-Oct-2005 15:21

no you are not the only one - I don't care either. As far as I am concerned an MMS client would just hog memory and I would never use it.

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#21525 14-Oct-2005 15:28

Are you telling me there are no business uses for MMS? I can think of 101 productive and innovative ways to use MMS. Anyway it doesnt mean I'm going to use Vodafone I'll just get another Telecom phone that suits me :)

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#21526 14-Oct-2005 15:29

must admit though... I only send PXT(MMS) once every blue moon.. mostly i forgot about it! LOL i just txt and even better call... and when i get V3G, i'll VideoCalling rather than PXTing.

Thought I would like to know how PXT api works and how/where to get a MMS gateway, so i can create my own PXTBlog. :-)

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#21528 14-Oct-2005 15:35

Email the photo - surely that is more useful?

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