Dear HP fans,
feast your eyes on the box pictured below:
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You are looking at the so-called HP Voice Messenger, which is the latest Windows Mobile Standard based iPAQ. It runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and finally has a QVGA screen – apparently, the ipaq 51x experiment didn’t work out too well for HP due to the tiny-teeny screen.

HP chose a Qualcomm 7201A (528MHz ARM11) CPU, and deployed 128MB of RAM along with 256MB of Flash ROM for storage. The screen is LED backlit, headphones have to be attached via a 2.5″ headphone jack.

Here are the specs:

  • Sleek phone-centric device with a 20-key QWERTY design for messaging and emails
  • 3G wireless broadband connectivity for voice and data:1,2
    • Tri-band UMTS (900/1900/2100MHz)
    • Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900MHz)
    • HSDPA up to 3.6/7.2 Mbps
    • HSUPA up to 2.0 Mbps
  • Operating system: Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard Edition
  • GPS: integrated support6
  • Display: 2.4-inch (60.96 mm) diagonal QVGA, 64K color, 240 x 320, non-touchscreen
  • Camera: 3.1MP, auto-focus, 5x digital zoom, flash LED
  • Wi-Fi: 802.11b/g1
  • Bluetooth: v2.0 + EDR1
  • Memory: 128MB mobile DDR SDRAM / 256MB NAND Flash memory
  • Storage: MicroSD (support up to 8GB5)
  • Battery: 1260 mAh Lithium-polymer
  • Charge/sync connector: Micro-USB
  • Headset: 2.5 mm stereo headset jack
  • Dimensions: 114 x 50 x 13.6mm (H x W x D)
  • Weight: 107 grams
  • Navigation: 5-way optical navigation with center select

HP bundled the following third-party programs with the device:

  • Keypoint Adaptxt predictive text input
  • Google Maps
  • Google Search
  • ArcSoft MMS Composer
  • ArcSoft Streaming Media Player
  • Sun JVM
  • HP Snapfish Upload
  • Cyberon Voice Commander
  • Westtek Jetcet PDF
  • Westtek Jetcet Print
  • MobiMate WorldMate (on CD)

This device has a planned street prize of 449 Euros before VAT and is said to become available in November. Its carrier launch partner is confirmed as VodaFone – my press release contains VodaFone’s director of terminals stating that his carrier is:

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“Leveraging the depth in HP’s routes to market and the global scope of our partnership, we are expanding the range of mobile devices and regions where customers can experience true office mobility.”
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Finally, we are proud to present you the VodaFone press release and an extremely detailed datasheet – hit the links below for the full scoops:
Full datasheet (Word .doc file)
VodaFone press release (PDF file)


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