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Description
Essentially the O2 XDA Orbit 2 is the HTC Touch Cruise, but if we had the choice we would rather go for O2's offering as they have added additional utilities and included a copy of the great CoPilot Live 7 software - which supports the GPS receiver brilliantly.
Box Content
O2 supply a fair amount of goodies inside the box, you get a full car kit, including a car charger and mounting cradle for your device, a 1GB microSD card with the CoPilot Live 7 software on it, a USB cable, AC Mains adaptor, manuals, protective pouch, CD with software and a pair of headphones.
The latter fits to the USB port but at least you have a 3.5mm adaptor so you can plug in your own 3rd party headphones.
Specification
- Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- 3G Network HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
- Dimensions: 110 x 58 x 15.5 mm
- Weight: 130 g
- Display: TFT touchscreen, 65K colours, 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches
- TouchFLO finger swipe navigation
- Memory: 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM
- CPU: Qualcomm MSM7200, 400 MHz processor
- Data: GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps, HSCSD: No, EDGE: Class 10, 236.8 kbps, 3G: HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
- WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
- Bluetooth: v2.0 with A2DP
- Infrared port: No
- USB: miniUSB
- OS: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional
- Camera: 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, video; secondary VGA video call camera
- Built-in GPS receiver
- Battery: Li-Ion 1350 mAh, Stand-by Up to 400 h, Talk time Up to 5 h
Design
From a cosmetic point of view the Orbit 2 has the look of a PDA but is blessed with a light weight profile and conveniently placed ports to the sides and base of the device.
Apart from the 2.8" screen you get your standard phone buttons at the base and a handy jog wheel. The latter is great to use and makes it really easy to navigate through the menu options.
For the majority of tasks the standard Windows interface is used, but being based on the Touch Cruise you will find HTC’s TouchFlo system in place.
Comparisons at this stage will no doubt fall on the iPhone but it is not in the same league, however the larger screen of the Orbit 2 does make it more functional than say the HTC Touch Dual.
Essentially you can swipe your finger up the screen to gain access to your contacts menu and then further swipes from left to right will gleam access to additional application shortcuts.
But apart from the picture gallery software - which allows you to browse and manipulate the images with your finger - the TouchFlo system still relies on the bog standard windows components held beneath its flash interior.
For inputting text you can also use a larger on-screen virtual keyboard - similar to the TouchDual - for double tapping. The later is a nice idea but we still found it easier to use the stylus pen.
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