14 DAY TRIAL // The VDA IV has just received the official FCC nod so it seems all you Vodafone users out there are going to have one more choice when you'll go to the mobile store. If you decide to go for the Vodafone 1210, aka VDA IV, you will find out that this is a good phone to have (except some flaws that every device has) if you are the type of phone user that likes to go for the simple and easy to use handset.
The VDA IV works on UMTS (the 3GPP Band I, which means this is a phone only for European UTMS networks) and on GSM 900/1800/1900 Mhz networks (again no USA 850 Mhz networks available) and has a Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Edition (yes, the kind that doesn't offer 3G video calling support), working on a Intel PXA270 312 Mhz.
It also features a 2.2 inch 65 k color TFT LCD 240x320 pixels display, has Java J2ME support (CLDC 1.1 and MIDP 2.0), 3.5 mm standard size stereo earphone jack, 128 MB of Flash ROM and 64 MB of SDRAM, a microSD memory expansion card slot, Bluetooth 1.2, USB 1.1, all these in a 103 grams package.
This is a handset that lacks many important features, and when I mean important I'm pretty serious about it: it doesn't have any sort of digital camera, no 3G video calling support, no Wi-Fi, therefore, this must be the type of phone made for the individuals that are always on-the-go and probably don't want to be seen in some creepy and weird place surrounded by creepy and weird people.
Seriously now, if a phone that doesn't know what a picture or video is suits your needs, take a trip to the stores after its launch (whenever that will be, because I don't have any info about it) and get one. You will be surprised to find out how many things it doesn't know about. Hopefully, it will allow you to make very good quality audio calls (the most important thing it's capable of), because if it doesn't, we've got another brick on the mobile market wall.