HP has launched new iPaq smarphones on Tuesday. They are available in Europe for now from Vodafone. The HP iPaq Data Messenger and the HP iPaq Voice Messenger will be available in the UK first and then in the rest of Europe. An official release for the USA hasn’t been announced yet, but that might happen later on.

The new iPaqs offer a new five-way optical navigation button, Windows Mobile 6.1, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and a 3 meagapixel camera.

The HP iPaq Voice Messanger is a phone which comes with a 2.4 inch QVGA non-touch display and a 20-button keypad. The HP iPaq Data Messenger comes both with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a touchsren display.

The Voice Messanger costs $521 while the Data Messenger costs $652. Check with your Vodafone dealer for availability dates and subsidized prices.

HP seems ready to develop their iPAQ smartphone line and adapt it for the consumer model. The Wall Street Journal reports that a future device is going to be very useful to both consumers and corporate users. The phone will apparently come with a touchscreen and a keypad and it will run on Windows Mobile 6.1.

There are no details about the future model. We don’t know the actual arrival date and how much it will cost. We’d like to have a picture for it too (the iPAQ above is a 500 series), and it looks we might get one soon. The new iPAQ might be available in Europe sometime within the next two months or so, while the rest of the world would get it soon after.

One couldn’t have chosen a “better” time to launch their cell phone or smartphone. I am talking about HP and their iPAQ 910 which is available for purchase. Don’t you guys know the iPhone will be selling over the weekend? How many iPAQ 910 are you expecting to sell?
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After just launching a whole brand new line of laptops a day after the WWDC, after showing us the Voodoo Envy which aims at being one of the slimmest laptop out there, HP strikes again. This time they have the iPAQ 900 Series Business Manger ready to be sold. It took a while to get it here. Announced in September 2007, the iPAQ 900 has passed the FCC and will hit the retail stand on June 30th
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Hot off the presses! HP’s new iPAQ, the HP iPAQ 900 Series, just got approved by the FCC. Featuring a ton of goodies including GPS, HSDPA support, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and more, this is one venerable all-in-one. Called a Business Messenger, the HP iPAQ 900 series is bundled with a Stylus and comes with a 1940 mAh Li-polymer rechargeable battery. For some reason, it is shipped with a wired stereo handset, but hey, it’s got Bluetooth, so I’m sure you’ll end up buying spankin’ wireless ones.

The device features a mini USB interface. One of the nice things about the iPAQ is its QWERTY keyboard. It also features the familiar 5-way navigation key. Running on Windows Mobile 6, the device takes in microSD memory cards for added memory. There’s also an on-board 3-megapixel camera with flash.

There are tons of other details available on the FCC site, go check it out in your free time (which is RIGHT NOW, people!). No word on the pricing or availability yet.

Source: FCC

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There comes a time in a person’s life when he’d wish he’s living somewhere else. Well, this is one of those times. Hewlett-Packard has announced the release of the new PDA gadget, HP iPAQ 112 classic handheld for our Korean mobile fanatic friends. The PDA would run on Windows Mobile 6 classic. Aside from the fact that is pleases aesthetic needs, it also has a wide variety of features such as WiFi, touch screen, Bluetooth capability and email or document sync. The HP iPAQ 112 classic handheld would be sold for around USD$425 each. Not bad for a stylish new PDA, don’t you agree?

More pictures after the jump.

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Remember the HP iPAQ 600 series smartphone that we saw on The Whack a while ago? Well, the device has apparently been approved by the FCC although the juicy stuff - namely the photos and user manual - is still well hidden thanks to the confidentiality request put in by Hewlett-Packard.

The device, identified as B94HHI14CN, cannot be used for simultaneous operations of the WLAN and WWAN HSDPA transmitters by software control, and will prohibit co-transmission as well. If you are connected to your wireless LAN and receive a phone call, the software will shut down WLAN transmission immediately. Hopefully you were not downloading your favorite songs just then.

Expect confirmation from HP soon. Hopefully we will also get an idea of the pricing.

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The HP iPAQ 914 & 910 is the the mobile email experience you’ve always wanted. The “QWERTY” keyboard makes text entry fast and efficient. Scroll elegantly through your emails with the track wheel. View and print attachments from a variety of applications. And when you’re driving, listen to your email read aloud and reply without
typing a word.

And it’s so much more than wireless email. Make calls and go online in countries around the world via 3G and Quad-band wireless technology. Find your destination easily with Assisted GPS and built-in Google Maps. Pre-plan your travel from the comfort of your PC with HP online trip planning services.

Stay organized and productive with familiar Windows Mobile® applications. Capture photos and video on the spot with the 3 Megapixel camera (certain models).

There are so many ways to get online. Use the high-speed HSDPA wireless data network. Share that speed with your notebook or PC by tethering with HP iPAQ Device Connect. Connect with 802.11b/g wireless networking at
the office, and other Wi-Fi hotspots at airports, cafes and hotels.1,2 Even make Internet calls over
wireless LAN.

Powerful mobile solutions go beyond the device. Whether you’re an IT manager or a mobile professional, you work in a complex environment. Your world—spanning countries and continents, an array of wireless technologies and networks, and powerful applications and communication tools—has a singular purpose: to drive business results.

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New iPAQs? In this day and age of iPhones, Nokia N95s and what not? Well, that’s what HP is planning to unleash anyway. And it’s not just one new model but a slew of line-ups, including the iPAQ 114, iPAQ 214, iPAQ 314, iPAQ 614 and iPAQ 914. That’s the mug-shot right there, from left to right. As can be guessed, the HP iPAQ 914 is the big gun boasting a 2.46″ touchscreen. It also has a 3 MPx camera, support for A-GPS, Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) and HSDPA network support for hi-speed data. Apparently will be priced in the range of 5500 Swedish krona or around US $800. It’s targeted for release later this year.

The HP iPAQ 614 runs on Windows Mobile and features GPS navigation capabilities and is in the same price range as the iPAQ 914. It is also a Wi-Fi device and, from the photos at least, looks pretty slim. The HP iPAQ 314 is a GPS device with a big 4.3″ screen offering 800×480 pixel resolution and doubles up as a media player. The iPAQ 214 is a handheld computer with Wi-Fi and features a 4 inch screen at VGA resolution.

Rounding up the rumor is the HP iPAQ 114 handheld computer with a 3.5 inch screen, 64 megs of RAM and Bluetooth. It will ship in October.

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You HP iPAQ 500 can now be protected with the Proporta HP iPAQ 500 Series Alu-Leather Case. It is beautifully hand crafted to meet the exact specifications of your device and features the trademark ‘Screen Saver System’ which uses a sheet of rigid, lightweight aircraft grade aluminium to line the case, protecting your delicate device screen from crushing and impact shocks.

The Proporta HP iPAQ 500 Series Alu-Leather Case also gives the option of a removable belt clip which allows you to wear your device whilst on the move, for quick and easy access to your mobile device.

The Proporta Alu-Leather Case can be docked in your vehicle in seconds using the Proporta Magnetic Vehicle Docking System (Car Kit).

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HP recently released details about their new line of Windows Mobile devices, the iPAQ 600 and iPAQ 900. Now, more news have arrived concerning the iPAQ 600 and iPAQ 900’s specifications.

The iPAQ 600 series is rumored to feature Windows Mobile 6 Professional, 3G connectivity and integrated GPS. According to reports, the first HP iPAQ 600 series devices will be indeed a bar type smartphone with a 12 keys numeric keypad sporting Windows Mobile 6 Professional and featuring an iPod’esk touch sensitive navigation wheel. It will also feature a quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as triband UMTS/HSDPA (up to 3.06 Mbps), WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 as well as Assisted GPS (AGPS). It will be powered by a Marvell PXA270 (Bulverde) CPU at 520MHz and featuring 128 MB RAM and 256 MB ROM which can be expanded by microSD cards.

The iPAQ 900 on the other hand is still a work in progress. The feature-set is quite identical to the iPAQ 600 features above but instead of sporting a numeric keypad, the iPAQ 900 will features a QWERTY keyboard.

Further information aren’t given yet but an announcement is planned for September with availability later this year.

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