Dopod 838Pro

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A Dopod 838Pro with the slide-out keyboard fully exteded.
A Dopod 838Pro with the slide-out keyboard fully exteded.

The Dopod 838Pro is a PDA phone made by HTC and marketed by Dopod. It is basically a HTC TyTN (evident from the codename "Hermes" found in the About screen and the HTC logo displayed when the device is powered on). It uses the HERM100 casing.

[edit] Features

The Dopod 838Pro is capable of using GSM and UMTS 3G bands, with GSM support running on 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 megahertz bands and UMTS on 850, 1900 and 2100 megahertz bands. A sixth 800MHz UMTS band appeared on the phone's mode menu after a recent software upgrade. However, users of the phone speculate that the function being listed is the result of a bug or typography error, as the phone was not advertised to be equipped with a 800MHz transceiver [1], but some websites speculate that the feature does indeed exist[2]. HSDPA support through UMTS support is also available. As a matter of fact, the HTC TyTN (on which the Dopod 838Pro is based) was widely touted as the first HSDPA-enabled phone when it was released. It is also capable of using the 2.4 GHz 802.11b/g(Wi-Fi) and Bluetooth 2.0 band.

[edit] Other Hardware

Hardware wise, the device sports a slide-out 41-key keyboard, two cameras (one at the front for video telephony, and a 2.0 mega-pixel camera with macro mode and LED flash at the back. It has a high-color(65k) 240x320 display that can be switched to landscape 320x240 mode by sliding out the keyboard. The processor used is a 400MHz Samsung ARM processor with an ATI Imageon GPU, and it is equipped with 128 MB ROM and 64 MB RAM. A hot-swappable microSD card slot exists to allow for easy memory expansion. The device also sports two speakers (an ear piece speaker and a device speaker), a microphone and a vibrator for silent mode alerts.

[edit] Software

The phone runs Windows Mobile 5, and ships with Pocket Office Professional (Pocket versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, and Windows media player), VoiceCommander, and two games. The device is backwards compatible with PocketPC 2003 and 2002 software, and partly with Windows CE software (i.e. Pocket Paint for Windows CE while in landscape mode). It also supports Java ME midlets via a virtual machine provided by Intent. A new ROM with Windows Mobile 6 is being released by HTC on their ASIA website on 12th July 2007 which can be freely downloaded and installed on HTC TyTn.