New T-Mobile MDA Vario IV – Best New Cell Phones
The T-Mobile MDA Vario IV shares almost all the features of the Compact, including a large 2.8″ 640 x 480 pixel display, a 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS, HSDPA and WiFi. The immediately obvious difference is the slide-out QWERTY keyboard (the one pictured has a German QWERTZ variant). The operating system is Windows Mobile 6.1 with what seems to be a TouchFLO-derived interface on top, and all the usual goodies that you would expect to see in a Windows smartphone.
It is also substantially heavier than the Compact at around 158 grams. This increase in weight is mainly due to the slide-out keyboard and the larger capacity battery – the cell on the Vario IV is a 1340 mAh unit compared with the rather puny 900 mAh one in the Compact.
According to T-Mobile, the T-Mobile MDA Vario IV also has more operating RAM (256 MB), and comes with microSD expandable memory. The processor is the same 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM module found in the Compact and Touch Diamond.
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