Initially only available in Germany, the teeny-weeny HTC Magician is about to make an appearance in the UK as the Vodafone VPA Compact about September time.
Orange are launching their variant of this – the M500 – any day now, so it looks like Vodafone will be playing catch-up. This device, in any of its guises (it’s also known as the i-mate Jam and O2 XDA mini) is proving very successful because it’s small enough not to be laughed at when you’re making calls, but big enough to still be a fully-fledged Pocket PC handset.
Details we’ve received say that the handset will launch with Windows Mobile 2003 SE, a 1.3 Mega pixel cam and Bluetooth (alas no WiFi). The CPU is an Intel PXA272 running at 416Mhz with 64 Mb of ROM and RAM.
Vodafone VPA Compact to come to UK
July 8, 2005