XDA IIi VS MAGICIAN II

[dogmas]

Hello everybody,
It is my first post in this web. I have sold my XDA, two weeks ago, and now i am reading post in different webs about the new realises like XDA IIi, the new magician wi-fi built-in and the MDA IV 3g, because i want to buy a new one, but i don´t know wich one.

I have read about XDA IIi, that the camera is a crap, and the WI-FI ok, the screen worse than XDA IIs, but can anybody tell me more about it?.
The speed of processor, The BT function, Whatever you can about it.
Do you think the new Magician wi-fi built in is a good competitor or is low in services if we compare with XDA IIi.
I would like not to wait for the MDA IV, but do you think it worths?.

Thanks

[MooChaqa]

Hi mate,

Well I'm unimpressed by the XDAIIi tbh.

There are a fair few improvements, like landscape mode in WM2003SE. And the built in WiFi is great. The new Bluetooth manager is allot better also; you actually get some kind of BT management ;)

However the screen really is worse than the XDAII (cant vouch for XDAIIs) I used a friends original XDA and the screen on that was pretty poor, although I cant directly compare it with the XDAIIi anymore as said mate moved away.

It really is a toss up over which features you want most in your XDAII.
I'm still split, and have about a week to decide whether to return it or not.
The cam really is crap! A friend at work needed a quick pic for the web the other day, he laughed at the image and for the rest of the day used his Nokia!!

[NeilM]

The choices are still fairly limited- the WiFi Magician and the XDA/MDA IV are still just development models.

The XDA IIi definitely has a problem with the camera, otherwise it is an evolution of the XDA II. The WiFi and Bluetooth enhancements are real improvements, and in the UK, the new O2 Active is getting to the point of being fairly useful, as long as you don't allow it to load after a reset. And of course, WM2003SE is an improvement.

The main problem with the Magician is the lowly memory (64Mb RAM and 64Mb ROM, as opposed to the IIi with 128 RAM and 128 ROM, or the IIs with 128 RAM and 96 ROM). The extra ROM on the IIi amounts to a 59Mb user area additional to the normal RAM.

With regards to the screen- there have been a few faulty ones with a poor resolution and yellowish tinge. Mine is a joy- much clearer and brighter than my XDA II, which always had a rather dark screen.

Even at Normal (416MHz) speed, the IIi is faster than the II or IIs, and at Turbo (524MHz) is much faster but with reduced battery life. When I was benchmarking the IIi against the II using SpB Benchmark, one interesting fact was that RAM writes were slower on the IIi- whether this is down to the O/S or not I can't say, but if the write speeds had been equivalent, then the IIi would have been much faster at both speeds.

[dogmas]

Thank you, very much guys for your responses. I have been reading a lot about the new pockets phone edition, and i have decided to buy the qtek 9090.
I think it would be an intermediate step to the MDAIV.
I hope to have taken the best choice.

Any commnet??

[JeromeMorrow]

Thank you, very much guys for your responses. I have been reading a lot about the new pockets phone edition, and i have decided to buy the qtek 9090.
I think it would be an intermediate step to the MDAIV.
I hope to have taken the best choice.

Any commnet??

Ohhh thats a good pda, for me the best by the moment. :wink:

Un saludo chaval. :D

[dogmas]

Thanks a lot Jerome 8)

Don´t loose my new subject in todopocketpc.com, about at least 10 different places to buy qtek 9090. It is quite interesting, if looking for prices and aditional information(time of delivery, transport prices).

read you, in spanish :D

OLE LA GENTE DESPAÑA. :D