What do SDA and MDA stand for?

At 02 Apr 2007 10:51:23 +0000 Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>
> I've looked most everywhere but I cannot find a definition of "SDA" or
> "MDA"?

They're just model names- AFAIK, they probably don't mean anything
anymore than the "GTO" in Pontiac GTO did... Cingular sold the same (or
very similar) devices as the 2125 and 8125. Those numbers don't mean
anything either, except that the guys from Spinal Tap might think the
8125 is 6000 better... ;-)

> What do they stand for and where did the initials come from (possibly
> answered in what they stand for...)

HTC, the builder of the devices, OEMs them for different carriers. The T-
Mobile MDA/Cingular 8125 is really an "HTC Wizard" while the 2125 and SDA
are the Farady and Tornado respectively. (The Faraday/2125 lacks the
SDA/Tornado's Wi-Fi.)

T-Mobile calls the Wizard the MDA in the US. Since they've already used
the name MDA in Europe for a previous model, they call it the MDA Vario
in some markets, and the MDA IV in others (where they've already sold MDAs,
MDA IIs and MDA IIIs.)

I suspect some T-Mo marketing genius intended them to stand for something-
the originalPocket PC phone built by HTC was sold by some carriers as
the "XDA" (the "DA" in all of these I assume is for "Digital Assistant"
like in "PDA.")

A better question than what do the "initials" stand for is what's the
difference in the actual devices. The MDA/Wizard is a Windows Mobile
"Pocket PC Phone"- a PDA with a stylus-driven touchscreen and the "full"
suite of WinMobile applications, while the SDA is a Windows "Smartphone"-
a PDA phone WITHOUT a touchscreen, and a subset of WinMo apps (missing,
most notably, Outlook Notes synchronization, and Word/Excel file editing.)

In simple but more or less accurate terms- the SDA is a good phone with
akward-to-use PDA functionality, while the MDA is a good PDA with akward-
to-use phone functionality! ;-)

Personally, I use an MDA- I wanted to replace my PPC and phone with a
single device but not lose any PPC functionality.

On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:18:23 -0600, Todd Allcock
<elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> scribbled:

>They're just model names- AFAIK, they probably don't mean anything
>anymore than the "GTO" in Pontiac GTO did

Gran Turismo Omologato

-= Hawk =- <Hawk@thispartisbogus.cfl.rr.com> wrote in
news:nra3139b3tmle9275hke9ge3h2f1jsqkud@news-server:

> Gran Turismo Omologato

Yeah, what he said.

--
Sven Golly
Trolling as usual

At 02 Apr 2007 21:19:12 -0400 -= Hawk =- wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:18:23 -0600, Todd Allcock
> <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> scribbled:
>
> >They're just model names- AFAIK, they probably don't mean anything
> >anymore than the "GTO" in Pontiac GTO did
>
> Gran Turismo Omologato

You got me! (That's what I get for Googling after posting instead of
before! Apparently Pontiac "borrowed" the name GTO from a Ferrari model
250-GTO.)

Likewise, MDA and SDA probably meant something to the guys who coined them,
but no T-Mo literature I've ever seen explains their initials.

On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:43:11 -0600, Todd Allcock
<elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> scribbled:

>At 02 Apr 2007 21:19:12 -0400 -= Hawk =- wrote:
>> On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:18:23 -0600, Todd Allcock
>> <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> scribbled:
>>
>> >They're just model names- AFAIK, they probably don't mean anything
>> >anymore than the "GTO" in Pontiac GTO did
>>
>> Gran Turismo Omologato
>
>You got me! (That's what I get for Googling after posting instead of
>before! Apparently Pontiac "borrowed" the name GTO from a Ferrari model
>250-GTO.)

I had to look for the O but I knew what the GT stood for :)

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 02:28:34 -0400, = Hawk =- wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:43:11 -0600, Todd Allcock
> <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> scribbled:
>
>> At 02 Apr 2007 21:19:12 -0400 -= Hawk =- wrote:
>>> On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:18:23 -0600, Todd Allcock
>>> <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> scribbled:
>>>
>>>> They're just model names- AFAIK, they probably don't mean anything
>>>> anymore than the "GTO" in Pontiac GTO did
>>>
>>> Gran Turismo Omologato
>>
>> You got me! (That's what I get for Googling after posting instead of
>> before! Apparently Pontiac "borrowed" the name GTO from a Ferrari model
>> 250-GTO.)
>
> I had to look for the O but I knew what the GT stood for :)
>
>

It means, more or less, "Certified (grand touring)"

--
Joey DoWop Dee
Remember: It is To Laugh

"-= Hawk =-" <Hawk@thispartisbogus.cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
news:nra3139b3tmle9275hke9ge3h2f1jsqkud@news-server...
> On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:18:23 -0600, Todd Allcock
> <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> scribbled:
>
> >They're just model names- AFAIK, they probably don't mean anything
> >anymore than the "GTO" in Pontiac GTO did
>
> Gran Turismo Omologato
>

SDA = Smart Digital Assistant

MDA = Mail Delivery Agent

At 03 Apr 2007 12:01:34 -0400 Newby wrote:

> SDA = Smart Digital Assistant
>
> MDA = Mail Delivery Agent


Seriously? If so, boy are those T-Mo marketing guys overpaid!

I knew my MDA was a pretty cool phone, but I had no idea it was an
"Agent!" Perhaps those times I can't find it aren't because I misplaced
it absent-mindedly, but because it's off on a secret mission... ;-)

So is the newer T-Mobile Dash a "Digitally Assisted Smart Helpmate" or
something?

(I shouldn't make fun of T-Mo's marketing- at least they didn't use names
like Jam, Jam-in', or K-Jam for the HTC phones like I-Mate did!)

On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:46:18 -0600, Todd Allcock
<elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> scribbled:

>At 03 Apr 2007 12:01:34 -0400 Newby wrote:
>
>> SDA = Smart Digital Assistant
>>
>> MDA = Mail Delivery Agent
>
>
>Seriously? If so, boy are those T-Mo marketing guys overpaid!
>
>I knew my MDA was a pretty cool phone, but I had no idea it was an
>"Agent!" Perhaps those times I can't find it aren't because I misplaced
>it absent-mindedly, but because it's off on a secret mission... ;-)
>
>So is the newer T-Mobile Dash a "Digitally Assisted Smart Helpmate" or
>something?
>
>(I shouldn't make fun of T-Mo's marketing- at least they didn't use names
>like Jam, Jam-in', or K-Jam for the HTC phones like I-Mate did!)

Or Razr, Krazr, whateverzer....

At 03 Apr 2007 14:56:19 -0400 -= Hawk =- wrote:

> Or Razr, Krazr, whateverzer....

Since we got so far off-topic with the GTO, I'm reminded of the funny
(and probably apocryphal) naming story for the old Datsun 280Z- Nissan's
first sports car for the US market. If I'm remembering the story
correctly, apparently the head of Nissan Japan wanted it to be called the
"Fairlady" because "My Fair Lady" was his favorite English-language film.
Knowing that American sportscar buyers would never buy a "Fairlady"
Datsun USA simply named it 280Z, which was the model number of the car's
engine.