More Than One Pocket PC Phone Edition in Town

AT&T will be offering the Seimens SX56 with their wireless service. If this device looks familiar, that's because it's exactly the same device as the T-Mobile Pocket PC, or the O2 XDA in Europe. All are made by HTC in Taiwan (anyone remember the cosmonaut in "Armageddon": "American components, Russian components, all made in Taiwan!"), the same company that designed the original iPAQ. This should give American consumers a nice choice of carriers, with T-Mobile and AT&T both carrying the XDA and Sprint using the Audiovox Thera. I'm particularly fond of AT&T's new flat rate voice plan, $99 for unlimited voice calls with free roaming and long distance. Wow!