Compulab is to add to the growing roster of Android handsets with the exeda which it describes as an “extensible handheld”.
The exeda is a rather squat looking device with a similar form factor to the BlackBerry or a wide Nokia E71. It has a full QWERTY keyboard (no numpad, obviously, although it is almost wide enough..) and a 3.5 inch glare-resistant screen. The keys are backlit and the device has small capacitive touchpad that acts like a mouse.
As well as the expected GSM / GPRS, CDMA, and 3G the phone comes with wifi and – brilliantly – a proper 10/100Base-T Ethernet port. Compulab say that the hardware can be extended by ‘extension boards’ that it plans to let 3rd parties create. Quite what this will entail is a mystery at the moment, but could lead to some interesting vertical market apps, satellite phones, giant robots… you name it, really.
Anyone tempted by the hardware but loyal to Redmond can relax, it also comes in Windows Mobile flavour.
March 2009 | £tbc | Exeda Mobile
