New player Velocity Mobile officially came out of stealth mode today to reveal its very first two devices: the creatively-named “103″ and “111.” Designed in partnership with mega-ODM Inventec, the handsets offer pretty much every feature a 2008-spec Windows Mobile device could possible be expected to, with triband HSUPA (available in both AWS and non-AWS configurations, T-Mobile fans!), TV / VGA out, and WiFi headlining the bill. The QWERTY-less 103, pictured, also sports a true VGA display — a feature so poorly received by manufacturers (for some reason we’ll never appreciate) that some have gone so far as to artificially dumb it down to QVGA.
Both devices look pretty cool, run the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile OS (Windows Mobile 6.1), and both sport such features as HSDPA/HSUPA support, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi, GPS, two cameras (2 megapixel for taking photos and a VGA for video calls), TV/VGA out, 256MB ROM / 128MB RAM, and a microSD expansion slot. The difference is that the former model (Velocity 103) comes with the VGA (640×480), while the latter has only a QVGA (320×240) touchscreen, but also boasts the full QWERTY keyboard and BlackBerry-ish look and feel.
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