Sprint's New PC Phone

Today Sprint announced the launch of
the first Pocket PC phone in the U.S.
to run Microsoft's new Windows Mobile
5.0 software platform. Sprint PCS
Vision Smart Device (PPC-6700), the
first PDA/phone-combination handset
in the country sports a 416 MHz Intel
processor, a 1.3-megapixel camera
with built-in flash, digital zoom and
camcorder functionality, a sliding
QWERTY keyboard (that opens from
the side and automatically changes
orientation from portrait to landscape
viewing mode) , and Bluetooth and Wi
-Fi data capabilities. This CMDA device
also has EV-DO (Evolution Data
Optimized) high-speed wireless
data protocol with claimed average
download speeds of 400 to 700K
bps and peak rates up to 2.0Mbps,
ready to support Sprint Wireless
High Speed Data capabilities where available. In areas that don't yet have
EV-DO service, the handset falls back to 1XRTT throughput rates.