Qtek 9100 Review
November 10th, 2006 - Posted in PDA
The Qtek 9100 has been redesigned and improved. The new Qtek 9100 features Wireless LAN and a fantastic slide out keyboard. Type long emails in no time. Slide out the keyboard and the screen automatically jumps from portrait to landscape. Surf the internet in high-speed with the built in EDGE radio.The Qtek 9100 Pocket PC provides superior corporate email capabilities. With Window Mobile 5.0 corporations can be confident mobile email will be delivered to all their mobile professionals from this quality phone and innovative mobile office communicator. The new Windows Mobile 5.0 platform allows for scalable and cost-effective mobile messaging supported by Exchange 2003 out of the box, whilst your companies networks, data and applications are protected.Operational choices include viewing the screen in portrait mode and using the Qtek 9100 like the Qtek 9100, entering data with the stylus. However slide out the QWERTY keyboard and watch the screen automatically change to landscape. Designed for two thumb use and very quick data entry, when you are finished the keyboard can then be neatly tucked away back under the device.
Review by Softpedia
“The performance of the HTC device is pretty good considering the fact that it runs on a Texas Instruments OMAP 850 processor working at 195 Mhz, and is equipped with 64 MB of RAM, 128 MB of on board flash memory. Users have the option to expand the storage space with the help of the miniSD memory expansion card slot.
Even if the processor has some on-chip features which help the device to process audio, networking and some other processes and manages to make things go faster, the Wizard still feels a little slow at some moments. For example if you want to play some music in the background and want to use some other type of application in the foreground you will notice that the things start to slow down, giving the impression that the TI OMAP 850 is starting to, somehow, choke with all the information it has to process. This is due to the fact that this little processing unit, not used before the 9100 since the HP iPAQ h6340, even then with little success, is designed for low power consumption and not for intensive computing.
Review By Mobile-Review
The form of double buttons above and under the screen is imposed by design and symmetry with slight harm to ergonomics (compare the proportion of the soft button and Talk button). The joystick is quite big and comfortable, if you turn the device in landscape position and use buttons above the screen, you can play some games, which do not require many buttons.