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[COMPUTEX, TAIPEI] De Taiwanese telephone manufacturer Mitac revealed during the this week held be first Computex-purse in Taipei with the Mio 8390 on Microsoft Smartphone 2003 based apparatus. It is for the business the second on Windows-based smartphone, after the launch of the Mio 8380 in June this year. Last named apparatus makes this fall its debut in the Benelux.

Both apparatuses see to about color screen, are in shell form exported and equipped with gentegreerde cameras. with that resemble they strengthen the smartphones that Motorola bring go from will with Microsofts mobile operating system.

The software giant want to do already longer an attack on the smartphone-makrt. Before has Microsoft agreements with manufacturers as Mitac and High Tech Computer (HTC), that an apparatus have developed (the SPV) that through Orange becomes sold. The most serious opposition comes becomes uses from the Symbian-operating system, that in smartphones of the most large mobile telefonie-manufacturers. When and for how many money the 8390 available is could the business not yet communicate.

The Mio 8390 sees to about an Intel-processor, code name 'Dalhart', with a bell speed of 200 MHz, a tft-/lcd-scherm that 65,000 colors can reproduce, support of MMS and Java MIDP 2.0, a digital vga-camera and a Precise Digital/Multimedia Card reader.

Next to the customary telephone positions, the apparatus can also the pda-branches at that meanwhile the characteristic its of Microsofts Smartphone-platform. That holds for instance in that on it mobile versions of Internet Explore and Outlook stand.

The something older 8380 is until now closed nearly only available been on the Asian markets, where meanwhile 80,000 specimens its sold. This fall will make the apparatus its debut in Europe. According to spokesmen of Mitac, the apparatus comes it firstly in the Netherlands, Belgi and France on the market. about the price yet no communications were done.