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Cingular Wireless today introduced a new Windows Mobile Smartphone, the 2125. The handset is a version of a device code-named 'Faraday' from Taiwanese original design manufacturer High Tech Computer.

Unique to the Cingular 2125 is a hump of an antenna on top. This enables the phone to support a quad-band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) GSM/GPRS radio for use in most international markets. There's EDGE network support too for faster data transfers.

Unlike most early Windows Mobile 5.0 handsets, the Cingular 2125 is not a Pocket PC Phone. Rather, it falls into the Smartphone category. That means, the device looks and acts more like a traditional mobile phone than PDA: no touchscreen, for example.

What the compact 3.74 ounce 4.57 x 1.81 x 0.69 inch Cingular 2125 does offer is Windows Media Player 10, a 1.3 megapixel camera with video recorder, and Bluetooth for connecting to wireless headsets and printers, for example. There is also a rather large 2.2-inch 240 x 320 pixel (QVGA) display—a Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone advance.

Inside, the Cingular 2125 boasts 64 MB of RAM, 64 MB of ROM, and a TI OMAP 850 200 MHz OMAP processor. Cingular's specifications state it should last for up to four hours of talk and six hours of standby time on a single battery charge.

As a Windows Mobile 5.0 device, the Cingular 2125 most likely supports Microsoft's new push-e-mail offering, which just came under fire today through a patent suit from wireless messaging provider Visto.

The new smartphone takes the place of the Audiovox SMT 5600, which the carrier took on when it bought AT&T last year. Cingular will sell the 2125 for $199.99 with a two-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate.