Sagem's WA3050 combines a dual-band GSM mobile phone with a powerful hand-held computer. It's also ready for higher-speed GPRS wireless data services.
The WA3050 is an excellent convergence device by today's standards, but it's not without its faults.
Enter Sagem's WA 3050 and the only other GSM-enabled Pocket PC, the Trium Mondo. The WA 3050 offers everything you'd expect from a Windows-powered PDA, but it is also a dual band GSM mobile phone. The slow rollout of GPRS has meant this hasn't...
We found the back-lit mono screen easy enough to live with and the Pocket PC side of the product is not overly compromised by the phone side, or vice-versa. Although we've not seen the rival Trium Mondo yet, that product's lack of a USB sync option as standard, nor any memory expansion path, seems to make the WA3050 a winner by default. At around £400 with a mobile phone contract, the price isn't too extortionate either, as long as you're in the 'must-have' category.
General 2G Network GSM 900 / 1800
Announced 2001
Status Discontinued
Size Dimensions 130 x 80 x 17 mm
Weight 198 g
Display Type Greyscale resistive touchscreen
Size 240 x 320 pixels, 60 x 80 mm
Sound Alert types Vibration; Downloadable monophonic ringtones
Speakerphone No
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries, 30 fields
Call records Practically unlimited
Card slot No
Data GPRS Yes (for the GPRS model)
EDGE No
3G No
WLAN No
Bluetooth No
Infrared port Yes
USB
Camera No
Features OS Microsoft Windows PocketPC
CPU 32-bit Intel StrongARM SA-1110 206 MHz processor
Messaging SMS
Browser WAP 1.1
Radio No
Clock Yes
Alarm Yes
Games Pocket PC games
Colors
GPS No
Java No
- MP3 player
- T9
Battery Standard battery
Stand-by 170 h
Talk time 130 min