Sierra Wireless Voq
The Voq Professional Phone is a smartphone from the Canadian electronics manufacturer Sierra Wireless . It is a Windows powered smartphone that works on the basis of the Windows Mobile 2003 SE operating system .
The Voq smartphone has a housing of 133 × 53 × 23 mm and a weight of 145 grams. The numeric keypad can be folded away to the side so that you have a keypad for quickly entering SMS .
The TFT display has a size of 2.2 inches, a resolution of 176 × 220 pixels and 65,536 colors. The smartphone has no photo functions, which makes it suitable for corporate use - in the meantime, some companies no longer allow photo- suitable cell phones on their premises for fear of industrial espionage. It comes with 40 polyphonic ring tones and can be expanded with your own ring tones in MP3 and WMA audio format .
The Voq has an Intel XScale - PXA-262 - processor (200 MHz) with an internal memory of 48 MB ROM and 32 MB RAM. The external memory can be expanded with an SD / MMC memory card.
The Voq smartphone has Microsoft Outlook with a contact database for eight telephone numbers, two fax numbers and three e-mail addresses per contact, as well as a calendar function and an e-mail program. The contact data can be compared with the computer via ActiveSync .
It also has Windows Media Player 10.0 for playing music and videos, and Internet Explorer for mobile access to the Internet and intranet (via VPN client movian ). It can display files in Word , Excel , PowerPoint , PDF and other formats.
As an MP3 player, it is only suitable with a suitable adapter for 2.5 mm jack plugs; the sound is good and the device is well suited for playing music and videos thanks to the SD card slot and the bright, high-contrast display.
The device has a lithium polymer battery with a capacity of 1050 mAh for a standby time of 100 hours and a talk time of six hours.
Sierra Wireless no longer sells the device itself. It is possible to install software afterwards, but this is restricted by Microsoft's certification policy.