Introduction, the competitors

Windows Mobile-based candybar smartphone. It has never been a wide-spread device, and nowadays it’s almost extinct. The last time I’ve seen such a thing was last May (that was HP iPAQ 510) and since then we had quite a lot of QWERTY handsets for testing, but none with a classic candybar form factor. The manufacturers probably don’t see a selling potential in these handsets, which by the way seems rather logical – if someone really wants to stick to the Windows Mobile Smartphone line of handsets then he will probably have expectations of the features too.

Now, however, we had two of these types of smartphones for testing, although HP iPAQ 514 is a good old friend. The point of posting this review is that the two handsets currently cost less than €220 EUR, so they’re relatively cheap. The reason for this is of course that the devices are outdated from many points of view, Airis has the old Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphone operating system and HP… well, we’ll see this later on. I won’t be analyzing the handsets in detail as this is not the purpose of such a comparative review.

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Both handsets have been provided by SpeedShop. The boxes they came in are relatively large, and as a strange thing the package of Airis is large and on it there is a phone that doesn’t really resemble the one inside – they had a good photographer, but that’s no big deal. There is a charger, a data cable and a stereo headset packed with both handsets.

A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!