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May 17th, 2008

E-Ten plans dual-SIM WM6.1 phone

Dual-SIM dumbphones have been available from various manufacturers for quite some time. E-Ten(fully owned by Acer) is said to be planning a dual-SIM WM 6.1 phone called Glofiish DX9000:

JAMPB claims that the upcoming DX900 will have the following specs:

- dual sim card support
- Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900) GPRS / EDGE,
- Tri-band UMTS (850/1900/2100 HSDPA

- Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS
- Samsung SC3 6400 533 MHz CPU
- 128 MB RAM / 256 MB ROM
- 2.8 inch VGA 65K color touchscreen
- main 3 mega pixel AF camera
- VGA front camera
- built in GPS SURF III chipset (20 channels)
- microSDHC support
- 1530 mAh battery
- WiFi b/g
- Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR
- FM Radio
- accelerometer
- measures 106×60.5×17 mm
- weighs 147 grams

As of mnow, little else is known. The box theoretically could be a fake; it could ship in a few days, and it could also come upon us next year. Stay tuned for further info!

May 17th, 2008

Palm Treo 800w/Zeppelin: first live shot

Now that the developer program for the Palm Zeppelin has begun, keeping the lid on any potential leaks is becoming more and more difficult. The folks at Shadowmite’s Treo web site somehow managed to get their hands on this pic(it seems to be gone by now):


Specs-wise
, all the boys currently have is the following bit of tentative info(their informant is on a prototype device - Palm is known for making last-minute changes):

* MSM6800 Chipset
* Internal Wifi
* OS 5.2.1944
* ARM1136
* MEM 101.53

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