My O2 XDA Atom

Pocket PC Review : With sliding QWERTZ keyboard, the O2 XDA Trion is a step up from the O2 XDA Mini S (based on the HTC Wizard). The O2 XDA Trion has a 2 megapixel main camera with a secondary camera for video calling included. And a 240×320 pixel display in 65,000 colours. 64Mb of internal memory. It has Bluetooth 2.0 and Wireless LAN support for connectivity. And a 400MHz processor (possibly an ARM-based Samsung S3C2440).

There’s a slide-out keyboard too (the photograph is of a German QWERTZ keyboard). The weight is not known, but we anticipate that it will be about 160 grams. We believe that the Hermes used microSD expandable memory.

The XDA Trion’s operating system is Windows Mobile 5.0, and it comes with Pocket versions of Outlook, Internet Explorer, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Currently the HTC Hermes is being advertised as “coming soon” by O2 in Germany as the O2 XDA Trion. No doubt it will also turn up as a T-Mobile MDA, Orange SPV and an i-Mate and Qtek handset. As always, don’t expect to get this if you’re a UK Vodafone subscriber as Vodafone can’t be bothered to sell this kind of kit to consumers.