MiTAC Mio 8380

One of the first smartphones powered by MS Smartphone 2002, and the first device of such kind in clamshell form-factror.

• Class: Business
• Position in the phone line: opens the line
• Rival models: HTC Tanager (Orange SPV)
• Description based on field test

   

• General
  • Announced in: March 2003
  • GSM900/1800/1900
  • Battery type: Li-Pol 1050 mAh (two batterries are included in the standard kit)
  • Battery life:
    • Standby time: up to 100 hours
    • Talk time: up to 3 hours
  • Internal display: a colour graphical TFT 65K display, which has a resolution of 176õ220 pixels. It contains up to 8 text lines + service line.
  • External display has a blue backlighting. It displays up to 3 text lines and has a resolution of 48õ64 pixels.
  • Available colours: silver
  • Integrated digital CMOS camera (the matrix resolution is 110000 pixels). It allows to take pictures of 320õ240 pixels, besides, the user can adjust contrast, brightness, set timer. It is possible to record video (up to 15 seconds), AVI format.
  • Java
  • Intel ® PXA255 200MHz
  • OS - Microsoft Smartphone 2002
  • Dimensions: 97x51.5x29.6 mm
  • Weight: 143 g.

   

• Memory
  • Several fields can be assigned to one name. It is not possible to assign a picture to a name, only a ringtone.
  • Caller groups
  • 32 MB ROM, 16 MB RAM
  • SD/MMC card slot

     

• Ringing tones, call management
  • Vibrating alert
  • 40-tones polyphony
  • A possibility to assign a melody to each entry in the phonebook
  • Speed dialing for up to 8 phone numbers
  • Autodialing
  • Integrated speakerphone function

 

• SMS

• EMS
• MMS
• SMS Chat
• A possibility to send and receive ringing tones and animated pictures
• A possibility to send a group SMS message
• Predictive text input T9
• Templates

   

• Connectivity
  • WAP 2.0, WAP Push
  • GPRS(4+2)
  • IrDA
  • E-mail client (SMTP/POP3)
  • Synchronization with PC
  • SyncML

 

• Organizer and extras

• User's profiles
• Animated pictures synchronised with a sound, displayed while the user switches on/off the phone. They can be edited
• Search in to-do list, organiser
• Musical composer
• Themes to change interface appearance. Several themes are pre-installed, they include not onlu wallpaper, but sounds and graphic as well
• Voice memo (limited by free memory)
• Date, clock
• Usual alarm clock and daily alarm clock
• Photo album (My Pictures) - a possibility to set extra pictures, receive pictures from PC or camera
• Timer, stopwatch with intermediate results, calculator
• Games
• Applications: Pocket IE (HTML, WML, WAP2.0), SMS / MMS, Email Inbox, Notes, Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, MP3, WAV & WMA Playback support, Messenger, Active Sync, Call History, Settings, Shortcuts, Windows Media, Text Input, MPEG4 Encode/Decode

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published - 25 February 2003

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