The value of the contract was undisclosed. Barnet will use O2 Xda IIs with Intellisync Mobile Suite 6 to deliver wireless email and PIM access to its social workers over a GPRS network.

The offering is the first result of the five year contract signed between O2 and Trafficmaster last December. O2 sold 30,000 of its XDA IIs between their launch last November and mid-January.

“We are confident that O2 Xda IIs and O2 Xphone II will receive tremendous response from the public,” he said after the launch of the products in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

The latest to join the fray is the O2 XDA IQ. Based on the Tornado handset from Taiwanese manufacturer HTC, the IQ is surprisingly compact given its impressive list of features. It weighs just ...