iPAQ Glisten Mobile Phone From HP And AT&T

Hewlett-Packard Development Company and AT&T Inc have announced the launch of a new mobile / cell phone in the market. The device is called iPAQ Glisten, and is available for USD 229.99. AT&T is offering a USD 50 promotion card with a two-year agreement along with this device.

iPAQ Glisten is built on 3G technology and runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 OS. It has a 2.5″ diagonal touchscreen that is built on touch-enabled AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) technology, and a 5-way directional QWERTY keypad. The machine comes with 256 MB SDRAM / 512 MB Flash. The device syncs with any desktop using softwares such as Active Sync or Microsoft Exchange. Users can browse through the web using Internet Explorer Mobile 6, and leverage the telecom infrastructure of AT&T in the background, and a dedicated on/off button gives them instant access to over 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots. For select smartphone data plans, this access comes free. The device comes with Microsoft Office’s Mobile version, so apps such as Excel, Word and PowerPoint can be used as easily as on a desktop.

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