HTC Sedna - whale security

Interior, operating system, fingerprint-reader

The PDA runs Windows Mobile 6 Professional as an operating system, since this is a phone-brick, but we’ll talk about my experience with this a bit later. The CPU is a 400 MHz Qualcomm MSM7200, the size of the RAM/ROM is 2 x 128 MB, but the latter is expanded with a 1 GB NAND flash storage, which is seen as a memory card by the device – if we put cards in the two SD slots, three, that is 3 additional drives appear in the system, I’ve never seen anything like this before. We have 76 MB for running programs by default, and 110 + 971 MB for data storage (the first one is the ROM, the second if the flash memory). Our synthetic benchmark software has been Anton Tomow’s Pocket PC Mark again; let’s see the results:

The results are just as expected, they are well-balanced. There are no speed issues during use either; scrolling is fast and there is no unnecessary wait when launching applications.

The plastic grating without functions

As I have previously mentioned, X6500 has a fingerprint reader. This has only data protection functions; it cannot be used for quicklaunching programs. We can set the PDA to come back from standby only after checking the fingerprint. We can use more than one finger for this, and the reader recognized my touches at a surprisingly high rate, about 95%. We can also use this method for file-encryption. Theoretically the machine has an anti-theft feature too, so if a thief would steal our PDA it’s enough to send an SMS and the self-destruction mechanism starts up, the proper detonation is assured by 5 grams of C4. Okay, that’s not true, only the data is erased, at least in theory – I didn’t have the opportunity of testing this feature.

The reader only recognizes fingers dipped in spinach

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