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| Sendo Z100 |
| General |
| Network | Gsm 900 / Gsm 1800 / Gsm 1900 |
| Announced | Never |
| Status | Cancelled |
| Size |
| Dimensions | 126 Mm X 48 Mm X 17 Mm, 99 Cc |
| Weight | 99 G |
| Display |
| Type | Tft, 65k Colors |
| Size | 176 X 220 Pixels, 35 X 44 Mm |
| Ringtones |
| Type | Monophonic |
| Customization | |
| Vibration | Yes |
| Memory |
| Phonebook | |
| Call Records | |
| Card Slot | Mmc |
| Data |
| Gprs | Yes |
| Hscsd | No |
| Edge | No |
| 3g | No |
| Wlan | No |
| Bluetooth | No |
| Infrared Port | Yes |
| Usb | Yes |
| Features |
| Messaging | Sms |
| Browser | |
| Clock | Yes |
| Alarm | Yes |
| Games | Yes |
| Colors | |
| Camera | No |
| | - Advanced Mobile Internet
- Pim Functionality
- Mp3 And Wma Player
- Rs-232 Connectivity
- Mmc Card Slot
- Voice Dial
- Voice Memo
- Built-in Handsfree
- Rs-232 Connectivity |
| Battery |
| | Standard Battery |
| Stand-by | 100 H |
| Talk Time | 4 H |
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Sendo - Z100Sendo to ship Microsoft smart phones by year-end
Mobile phone maker Sendo is preparing deals with European and U.S. mobile phone operators for the launch later this year of its Z100, a combination phone-PDA based on Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 platform, the company said Friday.
The first Z100 devices are expected to be on the streets in the second half of this year, said Hugh Brogan, Sendo's CEO, at a news conference at the CeBIT show. He declined to name the operators that would offer the handsets, but said the advanced phones "will show up in Spain quite early, as well as in France, the U.K. and possibly Germany." A deal with a "national U.S. operator" will be announced at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association event in Florida next week, he added.
The Sendo Z100 is expected to be the first Microsoft Smartphone 2002-based, mobile phone and PDA hybrid on the market. South Korea's Samsung Electronics, the only major mobile phone maker working on a phone running the Microsoft software, this week said it does not expect to release its handset until the fourth quarter.
Sources close to the company said Sendo will announce a deal with Spanish operator Telefonica Móviles, which is displaying the Z100 on its stand here. However, Brogan declined to comment, saying only that several agreements with operators are imminent. Brogan also returned a "no comment" when asked about possible deals with Germany's T-Mobile International, France's Orange SA and U.S.-based VoiceStream Wireless, which have all been named as probable Sendo Z100 partners.
Smartphone 2002, previously known as Stinger, competes with Symbian's and Palm's phone software platforms. Sendo, of Birmingham, England, was founded in late 1999. Microsoft last year paid over $10 million for a stake of less than 10% in Sendo.
The Z100 is a Global System for Mobile communications and General Packet Radio Service device operating on three frequency bands: 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz. The handset, weighing 99 grams and measuring 48 by 122 millimeters, sports a 176 by 220 pixel TFT screen that can display 65,536 colors.
It comes with an unspecified amount of RAM and 32M bytes of flash memory. Processing power for the Microsoft operating system is provided by a Texas Instruments ARM 9 core-based processor. The standard battery will power the device for 200 hours in standby mode, or two hours of talk time. A Secure Digital card and a MultiMediaCard slot are available for expansion. Street price, including mobile phone operator subsidy, of the Z100 will be about ˆ399 ($352), Sendo said.
Although Sendo works closely with Microsoft, it does take its own approach to the market. For example, Sendo added support for Java to the Z100. Java is showing up in many new phones and was developed by Microsoft arch rival Sun Microsystems.
"Microsoft is not a supporter of Java, but (mobile phone) operators are asking for it," said Sendo's Brogan. "We always intended to have Java in our product."
Though Microsoft had not included Java support in Smartphone, Sendo's addition of Java virtual machine to the Z100 will allow the handsets to run Java-based applications, which can be downloaded over the air.
Sendo started shipping mobile phones, not the Z100 model, to many operator customers worldwide in May last year. The company, managed by former Philips Electronics executives, sold over 500,000 units in 2001, according to Brogan. The target for this year is to sell "a few million," he said.
One analyst attending the news conference was charmed by Sendo and especially by the Z100.
"I think the Z100 will be a successful phone, provided it has no bugs," said Paolo Mosole, analyst with Italian brokerage firm Intermonte Securities. "Sendo has presented a good and competitive product that I think will drive up the company's market share. They might be underestimating demand."
Sendo Z100 Cell Phone Specifications
Size Dimensions 126 mm x 48 mm x 17 mm, 99 cc
Weight 99 g
Ringtones Type Monophonic
Customization
Vibration Yes
Memory Phonebook
Call records
Card slot MMC
General Network GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900
Announced Never
Status Cancelled
Features Messaging SMS
Browser
Clock Yes
Alarm Yes
Games Yes
Colors
Camera No
- Advanced mobile Internet
- PIM functionality
- MP3 and WMA player
- RS-232 connectivity
- MMC card slot
- Voice dial
- Voice memo
- Built-in handsfree
- RS-232 connectivity
Display Type TFT, 65K colors
Size 176 x 220 pixels, 35 x 44 mm
Data GPRS Yes
HSCSD No
EDGE No
3G No
WLAN No
Bluetooth No
Infrared port Yes
USB Yes
Battery Standard battery
Stand-by 100 h
Talk time 4 h |
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