Audiovox's First Pocket PC

Audiovox is tossing its hat, or rather its PDA, into the ring in a foray into the wild and wooly world of pocket computing devices. The company says the new Maestro is only the first in a series of its Pocket PCs and, as can be expected by the timing of the release, comes loaded with Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 software. The Audiovox unit features both 32 MB of SDRAM and 32 MB of Flash ROM and an Intel Strong ARM 206 MHz processor along with built-in CF card and SD card slots. When connected to an Audiovox CDM-9100 wireless phone, the Pocket PC can hook you up to the Internet without an add-on modem or additional wireless ISP. Audiovox is using an interesting method of marketing the new PDA in selling it through wireless carriers. The gadget will be offered co-packaged with an Audiovox CDM-9100 wireless handset. The Audiovox Pocket PC has reflected type color TFT with 240x320 Pixels and 65,536 colors. It weighs 6.3 oz./180g with battery and measures 3.05" x 4.92" x .69." Audiovox says that the device's Internal Lithium Ion battery will give you up to 8 hours standby time and 30 hours memory holding time Other features include a touch screen interface with on-screen keyboard and handwriting recognition, an infrared port, stereo headphone jack, mono speaker, and built-in voice recorder.