Hirdetés
Asus, Gigabyte, Meizu
Asus, not being present in Barcelona, timed its mobile announcements to CeBIT. It’s worth mentioning the P527 of all the PDA-phone combos (as it has a standard keypad), the very small P320 and the beautiful ZX1, which is designed by Lamborghini. But M536 and P560 were also there. The M356 was especially interesting, because in the middle of the navigation buttons there is a fingerprint sensor that can be used for walking around in the menu, just by stroking this sensor. Almost all new Asus devices have GPS, the software is supplied by Nav N Go.
Asus M536...
...and P560
We’ve been waiting for some kind of new gSmart device at Gigabyte’s stand, but we have “only” seen two UMPCs. The smaller M528 might be even more interesting as because in spite of its small size it supports two SIM cards, so we can surf the net on HSDPA networks too. HTC was not present at the exhibition, but it’s still worth mentioning because of the T-Mobile MDA IV: currently we know that that a not yet announced model from “Touch” series serves as the base for this version. Although T-Mobile’s spokesperson had forbidden to take photos of the handset, still others have done it:
MDA IV - source: Engadget
Gigabyte UMPC with HSDPA support
Meizu has again stirred up some serious interest. We naively believed that we’ll be seeing a stand from last year, full of M8s, but we have mistaken. The company has only rented a small corner, which has been closed down by German police on Wednesday. Of course the news has swept around the world, stating that the probable cause for shutting down Meizu is the resemblance between M8 and the iPhone, but it didn’t happen that way. They had to close down because they were illegally using an MP3 compression standard, but after removing the incriminated product, there was a girl sitting at the table with an M8 prototype, so we stood in the line in order to take a look at it.
Currently the Meizu M8 is still big and ugly
To tell the truth, the Meizu M8, announced a year ago, is still not done. The prototype was sitting on a circuit board as large as a motherboard; still it was somewhat functional, although the multi-touch interface has some problems. The hardware, however, is fast (such a large one should really be) and the GUI is almost a 1:1 copy of the iPhone’s. According to a representative of the company, the final M8 might be coming to Europe this fall, until then they are trying to compress it to its final size. Its presence in network operators’ offer is still questionable, as they are not even talking about the phone until a functional model is not done. Still, a video is available about this one too:
There is one last company worth to mention, this is General Mobile. This is an American manufacturer, who has brought seven devices to CeBIT, five of these being able to handle two SIM cards. We had some hands-on experience with the handsets: nice exterior and good-looking menus are characteristic of the devices (pictures below). And then we have started asking some questions. It turned out that the models are produced on the Far East and that the company wants to make them available in Europe. When we asked about how they think the cooperation with network operators they have answered sincerely: it’s sure that there will be operators to take the devices in their offers. We just nodded and wished that this would be true.
One can have a WCDMA, while the other a GSM SIM
The menu was surprisingly pleasant
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