Look and Feel

Sporting a glossy dark-silver finish set off by light-silver accents, the Cingular 8125 measures 4.32 x 2.32 x 0.93 inches and tips the scales at 5.3 ounces with the battery pack installed. The large dome-shaped keys on the handset's spacious, Qwerty-style keyboard deliver ample tactile feedback and are attractively backlit.

The handset's 2.8-inch screen offers images that are big, bright, and sharp. Moreover, the luxuriously large color display automatically switches to landscape mode whenever the keyboard is slid out from the casing.

Features

Cingular's new quad-band smartphone sports a 1.3-megapixel camera with flash and self-portrait mirror; a stereo headset jack; an infrared port; 128 MB of ROM; 64 MB of RAM; and a mini-SD expansion card slot for adding even more storage capacity. The handset also sports a full-duplex speakerphone and supports the conference calling, call forwarding, speed dialing, and call waiting features that handset customers have come to expect.

Mobile workers will appreciate that the Cingular 8125 can be integrated easily with corporate e-mail applications such as Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile and Microsoft Exchange Server. Even better, the Cingular 8125 will be compatible with the new "push" e-mail technology that Microsoft intends to introduce later this year.

The handset's Bluetooth radio, which offers support for wireless headsets and car kits, can double as a wireless modem for a Bluetooth-enabled laptop or PDA. The onboard Wi-Fi radio also provides mobile users with easy access to local Wi-Fi hotspots.

The available Pocket PC software applications include mobile versions of Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook. PDF files also can be accessed by way of the handset's ClearVue PDF viewer.

In addition, the Cingular 8125 features an integrated multimedia suite that includes Windows Media Player 10 Mobile, which supports MPEG-4 video streaming as well as multiple audio formats. (continued...)

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