Cingular 8125 Hands on Review
February 24th, 2006
Mobile Tech Review has released what must be the first hands on review of the all new Cingular 8125. HTC is the manufacture behind the Cingular 8125 and its twin brother the MDA available from T-Mobile, both of which support Windows Mobile 5.0.
195 MHz? Doesn’t make your heart race with excitement if you’re a geek addicted to “the bigger the better” kinds of numbers. But wait: let’s pretend you didn’t know the CPU speed and someone gave you this unit to play with for an hour. Unless you were playing back video encoded above 500 kbps, you’d probably guess the Cingular 8125 was a 312 or 400 MHz unit. That’s the common range of speeds for Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC phones and the 8125 feels middle of the pack when it comes to dropping down menus, launching applications, using Pocket Word, Internet Explorer or even playing action games and music. Pocket PC phones run from 312 to 416 MHz these days, with the Treo 700w and the HP iPAQ hw6515 being at the low end and the HTC Universal (the big VGA device that looks like a tiny notebook), Apache (Sprint PPC-6700 and Verizon XV6700) and E–TEN M600 being at the high end.
Lisa Gade, editor in chief of Mobile Tech Review, offers very detailed experiences with all the 8125’s intricacies and quirks. The review is a must for any potential Pocket PC consumer.
