T-Mobile UK’s new Ameo windows mobile device

Picture 14Jeremy caught this one on the Register’s Hardware site. It looks absolutely gorgeous.

Link:
T-Mobile UK prices up Ameo UMPC-style communicator | Reg Hardware

3G UMTS/HSDPA machine with a QWERTY keyboard; 5in, 640 x 480, 65,536-colour screen; 8GB hard drive; 128MB of memory; Bluetooth 2.0; 802.11b/g Wi-Fi; three-megapixel camera; and an SDHC-compatible memory card slot. It runs Windows Mobile 5.

All of this comes in a 13.3 x 9.8 x 1.6cm, 355g unit that has battery capacity sufficient for 6.5 hours’ talk time and 300 hours in stand-by mode, according to T-Mobile.

This is exactly the sort of good looking Windows Mobile device that I’ve always wanted to see in production.

Will it be any good? Or will it be hobbled by a sluggish, shitty operating system? Gahhhhhh. I really would like to get hold of one to see. I don’t think I’ll take out an 18-month price plan to find check.

An 8 gig hard disk? Very cool.

3 megapixel camera? I’m interested. Hmm.

Available to order right now on T-Mobile UK? Yes, very interesting…

Maybe. Just maybe, I could be seduced by a T-Mobile sales person and upgraded to one of these…

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  • Jim Black

    Was seduced by the good looks of the Vario II and it’s well documented just how much I hate it. This is definately a looker, but I doubt if I could ever contemplate another Windows device no matter how cool it looked. You have been warned Ewan…..

    Jim

  • Darren

    Just received my Ameo yesterda – Wow, wow wow!

    Mind you, now I’m trying to figure out how to use it as a phone! If only t-mobile had a proper multi-sim solution :-(

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