… just briefly, Socket Communications has just announced a change of their name to Socket Mobile. At the moment, there is only a short company presentation available at the www.socketmobile.com. The press release is available here.

I am going to spend the following three days on the ITnT fair in Vienna. I arrived this morning and the first thing I went to see was the T-mobile booth where, apart from the mobile phones and services T-mobile offer, you can put your hands on the very new T-mobile Ameo (i.e. HTC Athena).

I spent some 20 minutes playing around with this device and made a few photos (see bellow). My first impression was that it is really BIG. However, I liked the keyboard which you can put apart from the device itself. Also another great thing about this UMPC is that Athena supports all wireless technologies – i.e. WiFi, GPS, UMTS and Bluetooth. It sports VGA display and VGA output. This sounds really great. HTC used the same USB type connector for Athena as for all the recent PDA’s (i.e. HTC ExtUSB). There are WindowsMobile 2005 with AKU3 pre-installed on the device. Its price should be around 600 EUR. You can find a complete technical specification for the HTC Athena here.

So here come the pictures with their descriptions that are always under each picture.

Overall image – i.e. the magnetic keyboard is connected to the device.

Here the magnetic keyboard was disconnected from the device. The stylus on the right is really small.

Right-side view. You can see the On/Off button as well as the recorder and camera button.

Left-side view: headphones jack, miniUSB connector, VGA output, volume slider.

… and finally, the backside of the Athena.

One of my favorite software companies Spb Software House officially opened the Spb Club. A press release can be found here. At the Spb Club pages you can download:

• Programs
• Games
• Free ringtones
• Free Pocket PC themes
• Free SMS-tones
• Free skins
• Free UniThemes
• Free tips & tricks
• And information about Pocket PC accessories