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Pogo Phone/PDA Quietly Launched

Posted by timothy on from the smaller-than-it-looked dept.

labourstart writes: "Carphone Warehouse, one of the largest mobile phone retailers in the UK, this week quietly began selling the Pogo device, which claims to offer greater than 56K connection speeds to the Internet without waiting for 3G mobile phones to come into use. It's also a PDA and web browser using a proprietary operating system and data compression software that, they say, allows very fast downloads of HTML (not WAP) web pages." This one's been mentioned before, but now it looks like it's really and truly available.

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  1. Review by jonv · · Score: 3, Redundant

    Review can be found here:
    http://www.zdnet.co.uk/reviews/rstories/0,3040,e 71 11404,00.html

  2. Re:OS? by Corrado · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Yea, I didn't see any expandable memory slots in the specifications. A SONY Memory Stick or MMC slot would do wonders for this device and couldn't raise the price much.

    Again, Mhz alone does not reveal much about the overall speed of this machine. You need to take the whole package into account. My first Amiga only ran at 8Mhz, yet it could do so much more than the PeeCees running @ 25Mhz.

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