BenQ lets the P51 piggie fly

Can it really be true? One year after announcing the P51 (we had a hands-on at CeBIT 2006 for crissake), BenQ has finally released the damn thing beyond the confines of China... and Singapore and Turkey too, apparently. Don't even get us started on the P50 this handset was meant to follow. It doesn't look like there's anything new on this FCC approved handset, but hey, we'll run down the specs again anyway: quad-band GSM / GPRS (that's right, not even EDGE), 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS, A2DP Bluetooth, SDIO slot, and 1.3 megapixel cam with a 2.83-inch QVGA touchscreen LCD for Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC to dance upon. We agree, a bit rusty for a 2007 release.

[donuteatinsob @ Mar 20th 2007 10:37AM]

Please oh please go into detail about the P50! I had one of those things and oink, it was a pig. Had tons of features on paper but sloooow as all get out. If the P51 resembles anything in the way of the P50 then you would be doing a community service to warn people away from it. Spend your hard earned money somewhere else!

[Dan @ Mar 28th 2007 9:04PM]

Well I hope the P51 is better than the P50. Caught on the bleeding edge with this one. I read a post regarding what readers thought of the P50 when it was released. "Looks like a brick, with buttons".

If only the buttons worked from time to time! For me, sadly, just a brick.

[kerunt @ Mar 20th 2007 10:49AM]

If you want rusty, take a look at the Windows Mobile Palm Treos.

[Mrmean @ Mar 20th 2007 12:37PM]

lol @ this brick

[serwei @ Mar 21st 2007 3:52AM]

Actually I've reviewed this. Other than the bulk, "average" 412MHz and the so-so GPS performance (no GPS car kit or antenna kit), the P51 is quite good actually, at 4/5 the MSRP of comparable Asus P535 and Dopod P800W. It's got a qwerty and full sized SD slots on top of everything else.

But it's the after sales that's worrying. If it dies, will there be parts for it? LOL