Microsoft Smart Phone, Sierra Voq, on Sale in Europe

Nifty fold-out keyboardSierra Wireless’ Voq phone, a handset built around Microsoft’s Smartphone Platform, has just gone on sale in Holland, through Dutch carrier KPN.

The 5 ounce phone contains a 200MHz XScale processor and has 48mb of Flash memory alongside 32mb of SDRAM – expansion is through the usual SD card slot. The display is 2.2 inch, 64,000 colour LCD. A flipout QWERTY keyboard differentiates the phone from most other handsets, emphasising that it’s a business phone for emails. Or for youths that like to send a lot of text messages.

The phone is not yet available in the US – though is expected to be on sale within the next two weeks, priced at about US$500 (€404).

KPN

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One response to “Microsoft Smart Phone, Sierra Voq, on Sale in Europe”

  1. alazar avatar
    alazar

    i have the 2004 voq smart phone but i kind of facing a problem.
    will you help me? the phone only got the charger and the phone
    itself and in the country am living in there is no wireless
    connection so i can’t see the difference between this phone and
    just a phone!
    Is there anyway that i can add some $ and chane the phone or is
    there any thing that you can help me out?
    please write me back!!
    looking forward your reply!!