14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung just made a huge unveiling, bringing out to the light several WiBro enabled devices. The powerful Samsung SPH-M8200 PDA phone was one of them and will manage to bring some pretty evolved solutions.
Although PDA devices have seen a major sales drop over the past period, Samsung seems to be pretty confident in them, as it just brought out another model. The device has a design similar to many other handsets out there, making the best of what touchscreen technology has to offer, but also triggering its drawbacks.
For the starters, users might find it to be highly inconvenient to use a device that lacks any type of real keypad. No numeric QWERTY pad, not even a numeric one, which should leave it all up to the virtual keypad that many people hate for writing long text messages and managing personal files.
People who choose a PDA over a regular evolved phone look for a device to keep them perfectly organized and help them joggle work and personal life at the same time. Samsung SPH-M8200 tries to pack solutions for this in a slim body of only 16.6 mm thick and with just a few navigation buttons and a huge display.
The device runs Window Mobile 6 and works in CDMA EV-DO, which will take it out of the race for a release in many markets. The greatest feature about it that also set the theme for this group release along with other Samsung branded products is the mobile WiBro connectivity. WiBro is the South Korean service name for IEEE 802.16e (mobile WiMAX) international standard, but WiBro has some advantages over the latter like better speed and the possibility of streaming video content and other loss-sensitive data in a reliable manner.
The device also packs Bluetooth, which should prove to be great for placing calls without having to tangle in wires. Moreover, it also supports terrestrial DMB, which should make a perfect match with the large display screen for offering high quality mobile TV broadcasts to the handset's owner.
The Samsung SPH-M8200 PDA phone has just been released in Korea, with low chances of coming out on other markets.