T-Mobile MDA Basic Mobile Phone
February 15, 2009
Duncan was cruising in his brand new Jaguar, his hair flying wildly in the wind. He pressed hard on the accelerator raising the gear to its maximum. He forgot himself, the world around and was indulged in a moment of pure ecstasy. The high-pitched sound of a siren brought him back to the world. He looked back to find a traffic officer’s car at his heel. ‘Oh-oh! I’m screwed’ he muttered as he pulled up his Jag to a halt. The officer stepped out of his car and and walked towards Duncan with a frown in his face.
“I’m going to write you a ticket for over-speeding mister.” he began in a drawling tone. Duncan stood there without utterance, for he knew the fault was his. Just then, the officer’s mobile phone rang and Duncan couldn’t resist.
“What’s your model, officer?” The officer stared at him for a few seconds, then shrugged and said, “It’s a good for nothing mobile phone. To be honest, it’s so outdated that I feel it’s from the Victorian ages.” “Are you planning to buy a new one, then?” asked Duncan.”May be…know of any new models?” Duncan smiled wide. “I know just the thing for you officer.”
“Call me Ben, Duncan.” said the officer handing over Duncan’s driver’s license. “Okay, Ben. I know of a new model from T-mobile. It’s the HTC MDA basic. Do you wanna know more about it?” “Sure, man why not?” said Ben leaning his shoulders on Duncan’s glossy Jaguar.
“The T-Mobile HTC MDA Basic Touchscreen Mobile Phone is to be released sometime this month. The touchscreen is about 2.8 inches. It is actually an entry-level Windows smartphone. It has Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional.”
“What about Bluetooth and 3G?” asked Ben opening a pack of cigarettes and offering one to Duncan. “Thanks, but I don’t smoke. The HTC MDA not only has Bluetooth, but also Wi-Fi, GPRS and EDGE. But it does not have 3G. The RAM is of 128MB and the memory can be expanded by making use of the microSD slot up to 4GB. It’s a compact touchscreen phone, Ben. It measures about 105 x 59 x 16mm and weighs just about 110 grams.”
Just then, a heavy truck trundled across leaving behind a trail of smoke. The men coughed in unison, but Ben continued long after Duncan stopped. “It’s the cigarettes. You better quit smoking, it’s eating up your lungs.” Ben looked at him and after a half-smile, put his cigarette down and said, “I’ll try from today.”
“Duncan, how about the talk time and stand-by time of the mobile phone?” “Well, the T-Mobile HTC MDA Bluetooth Mobile Phone has 11 days of standby and talk time of 8 hours. The touchscreen has a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. It also features a 2 megapixel camera at the back. The processor is a 200MHz TI OMAP 850. Furthermore, it features TouchFLO user interface in 2D, handwriting recognition, an editor, a pre-installed document viewer and polyphonic ring tones.”
“Sounds like a good phone.” commented Ben. “I wonder why they call it basic. It does have quite a lot of features” “That’s what I thought too.” said Duncan offering Ben a strip of chewing gum. “The mobile phone also features a HTML Pocket IE and WAP browser, handwriting recognition, MMS and email facilities. Are you a music freak, Ben?”
“Mmm.. not exactly. But I do listen to the radio once in a while..Does the MDA basic have an FM tuner?” “Oh, there’s no FM. But it does have an MP3 and AAC player though. There’s also the video camera feature and built-in games.”
The two men stood there discussing the MDA basic with no idea of the time. The sun had sunk low behind the mountains when Ben said, “Oh, I didn’t notice the time at all. Duncan, thank you so much for all that info. I think I’ll go for the T mobile MDA basic.” “Well, thats good, Ben. Alright then, It was a pleasure talking to you.” “Same here. And your car, It’s super cool.” “Thanks, Ben.” “And Duncan, please do drive a bit slower.” said Ben with a jocular slap on Duncan’s shoulder.
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