14 DAY TRIAL // Velocity 103, a brand new Pocket PC coming from Velocity Mobile, has just been approved by the FCC and it should hit the US market in the next weeks (or months).
Velocity 103 was first presented in April, during CTIA Wireless 2008, together with Velocity 111, another new device from the aforementioned company. The 103 is a full-touch Pocket PC that runs on the latest Windows Mobile 6.1 OS and proudly packs a wide range of advanced features, including: a 2.8 inch TFT touchscreen display with 480 x 680 pixels and 262K colors, GPS and A-GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, Music and Video players with lots of formats supported, push email, full HTML browser, Instant Messaging, document viewer and editor, 256MB of internal memory, microSD card support, a 2 Megpapixel camera, front-facing video-call camera, USB 2.0 and so on.
The 103 further features quad-band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) with GPRS and EDGE, and tri-band HSDPA connectivity (850 / 1900 / 2100 MHz), allowing users to enjoy data transfer speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps in downlink and up to 2.2 Mbps in uplink.
Measuring 113 x 58 x 15 millimeters (4.49 x 2.28 x 0.59 inches) and weighing 130 grams (4.58 ounces), Velocity 103 comes with a 1450 mAh Li-Ion battery that can last up to 4 hours in talk-time mode and up to 200 hours in stand-by mode.
Velocity Mobile (which created both the 103 and 111 Pocket PCs in collaboration with Inventec) has not announced yet the retail price and the exact release date for any of its new devices. Anyway, both the 103 and 111 will most probably be launched in all the important markets around the world, since they come with global GSM and 3G connectivity.