The iBIT
U250 is--sadly--a Korea-only smartphone which runs on that rarest of Windows mobile (but not Windows Mobile) operating
systems, Windows CE.NET version 4.2, but has some nice features that might make it a winner over here as well. Like the
Sony Ericsson
P900 series,
the iBit sports a flip down keypad which covers part of its 2.8-inch, 320 x 240 LCD, and rocks a 400MHz Intel PXA273
processor, not to mention dual-mode car/pedestrian GPS. The lack of WiFi is somewhat balanced by the inclusion of
EV-DO, but phones without Bluetooth are definitely not an option for us. We're quite impressed by the internal storage,
however (64MB RAM, 512MB Flash ROM), as well as the two megapixel camera. It may also be the only phone we've ever seen
that comes pre-loaded with text-to-speech software for what we can't imagine to be a great audio-book listening
experience (think: Tuesdays With Morrie meets OK Computer). Click on a few more shots...
[Via
Phoneyworld]
posted Feb 7th 2006 7:00AM
Some better pictures.
http://www.mobilekorea.tv/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=314&Itemid=33
It has a 2 Megapixel CCD camera, which promises good picture quality (vs CMOS).
Surur
Wow Windows CE.NET, I'll take one.
I'm just waiting for something that will run Windows CEMeNT.
http://images.google.com/images?q=windows%20cement
Ah, Windows CE.NET, Windows Mobile's oft-ignored brother. I'm honestly suprised they still develop it, and haven't merged it with Windows Mobile yet.
Actually, that OS, Windows CE.NET 4.2 has been surpassed by the newer Windows CE 5.0.
Windows Mobile is actually based on Windows CE.
For more information on it, check out Mike Hall's blog post about it: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2005/03/15/395958.aspx
Any links to where it will be sold / Price estimates?