The built-in Wi-Fi and the GPRS/EDGE wireless functionality make it an excellent email device, supporting push email from a Microsoft Exchange mail server, as well as standard POP3 and IMAP email accounts such as Hotmail, GMail and Yahoo! Mail. Running on the Windows Mobile 5 operating system, the Xda Zinc has the mobile versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player 10 and Pocket MSN.
R ecently, however, two hefty Windows Mobile devices landed up for review-the O 2 Xda Zinc and the strangely named i-mate JASJAR-both touch screen hand-helds with QWERTY keyboards.Įquipped with a full, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a sleek and stylish design liveried in gunmetal grey with silver accents, the feature-packed O2 Xda Zinc has a two megapixel camera, Wi-Fi connectivity and full 3G support, if you’re lucky to have it. And remember when you pegged your home loan to a floating interest rate in the good old days… you get the drift.Īlso, having lived and worked with Apple products for work and play, I was a bit leery and condescending about Microsoft-powered devices.
Or, if you’re married like me, happily, I may hasten to add, if the wife ever said, “Do whatever the you want", it wasn’t a licence to take home an expensive, shiny new toy to check for your next dentist appointment. OK, the real reason was that I could not afford or justify the stratospheric prices that these devices commanded.