Introduction, packaging
The name of Socket Mobile Inc. might sound quite unfamiliar for most of our readers, which is no wonder, as the main profile of the company is not telecommunication, but the production of networking equipment and accessories. The company with a 15 year old history has many Windows Mobile-related stuff in its portfolio, they make both software and accessories, the average user might rather know them from the previous category, we might mention the application called Wi-Fi Companion.
But they still have much more: an armada of barcode readers, WiFi- and Bluetooth-CF/SD cards, external antennas, modems, adapters. It has been almost a need to make a Pocket PC for all these accessories, which they have fortunately done. The result of this is the product family with a very nice name: SoMo. There are currently two devices here, SoMo 560 and the subject of this review, SoMo 650. On the manufacturer’s website we can see the following text at the handset: “More Than Just Another Pocket PC!” It will turn out from our review if this is indeed true, but I’d like to tell in advance that this is a shock-resistant, industry-designed PDA without any GSM features, which is of course compatible with all accessories of the company.
We have received the PDA from SpeedShop. We got it quite “naked, as there was only a charger with it, the boxed version comes with a desktop cradle, a data cable, a 2.5 mm jack headset and a 2.5-> 3.5 mm jack converter. The lack of the data cable hurt me the most, as the handset has a special connector, so I couldn’t sync it with my desktop PC without a cable.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
