O2 have been in the Windows Smartphone market longer than most - the original O2 XDA was launched way back in 2002, and it was one of the very first Windows devices on the market. Originally O2 relied on HTC, but recently it has gone elsewhere to source its latest XDA handsets.

The new O2 Atmos is a little different from other carrier’s Windows smartphones in that it isn’t an HTC device, and is presumably made by ASUS. A tri-band UMTS device with HSDPA high-speed data, WiFi, quad-band GSM, GPRS and EDGE, the XDA Atmos ticks all the boxes when it comes to connectivity.

The 2.4" touchscreen is pretty normal too, and the O2 XDA Atmos comes with Windows Mobile 6 and all the usual software that you would expect, including push email support and "Pocket" versions of Microsoft Office.

The other features on the XDA Atmos are not really surprising - a 2 megapixel camera, video calling, 4 hours talktime on UMTS, Bluetooth 2.0 and microSD expandable memory round off a pretty typical feature set. O2 say that the XDA Atmos has 64MB of memory when we would hope to see more, but overall this looks to be a pretty decent and the dual-keypad arrangement is certainly novel. [Source]

O2 have been in the Windows Smartphone market longer than most - the original O2 XDA was launched way back in 2002, and it was one of the very first Windows devices on the market. Originally O2 relied on HTC, but recently it has gone elsewhere to source its latest XDA handsets.

The new O2 Atmos is a little different from other carrier’s Windows smartphones in that it isn’t an HTC device, and is presumably made by ASUS. A tri-band UMTS device with HSDPA high-speed data, WiFi, quad-band GSM, GPRS and EDGE, the XDA Atmos ticks all the boxes when it comes to connectivity.

The 2.4" touchscreen is pretty normal too, and the O2 XDA Atmos comes with Windows Mobile 6 and all the usual software that you would expect, including push email support and "Pocket" versions of Microsoft Office.

The other features on the XDA Atmos are not really surprising - a 2 megapixel camera, video calling, 4 hours talktime on UMTS, Bluetooth 2.0 and microSD expandable memory round off a pretty typical feature set. O2 say that the XDA Atmos has 64MB of memory when we would hope to see more, but overall this looks to be a pretty decent and the dual-keypad arrangement is certainly novel. [Source]