Too melodramatic a title, I know.
T-Mobile has never had much of a Windows Mobile line-up to start with. They recently dropped the only Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition model they carried: The MDA. This leaves them with two Windows Mobile Smartphone models:Â The SDA and the Dash.
The most likely reason for dropping the model is because T-Mobile is getting ready to introduce a Windows Mobile 6 Pocket PC Phone Edition (now called Professional Edition) to their lineup. But, wouldn’t it be interesting if they were the first of the mobile carriers to drop the Pocket PC Phone Edition altogether. Ok, it is unlikely. But still, this is something that will happen in the next year or two IMHO.
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3 responses to “T-Mobile Drops the MDA: Is the Pocket PC Phone Edition Doomed?”
T-Mobile dropped the Wizard (MDA) for the T-Mobile “Wing”, as its currently called. The Wizard will be replaced with the HTC Atlas.
Check out this link:
http://mymobile911.com/dnn/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/20/Default.aspx
Wow! I was just about to buy one! You can get them free after rebates. Would you recommend me holding off, or buying something else (obviously not on T-Mobile)? I was thinking of the Motorola Q, but it isn’t touch-screen. Who sells PocketPCs these days?
This is just T-Mobile USA, though – T-Mobile UK still carry a range of Pocket PC Phone Edition handsets, including the MDA Vario and Vario 2 (the HTC Hermes, which I have) and the new Ameo.
In fact, out of five T-Mobile branded handsets available in the UK, only one is Windows Mobile Smartphone – the ‘MDA Mail’, which looks to be a rebranded Dash. (The remaining handset is the ‘MDA Compact III’, which is apparently a HTC Artemis.)