Gigabyte to debut GSmart S1200 WinMo phone and more at MWC
By Donald Melanson 
posted Feb 11th 2009 1:14PM
posted Feb 11th 2009 1:14PM
Gigabyte is understandably saving most of the details for its official announcement at Mobile World Congress, but the company has let out word that it'll be introducing three new series of phones at the big show, which it says fall under the Multimedia, Business, and Style categories. The former of those will apparently include the MS820, which made a brief appearance last year, as well as an all new model with "higher specifications." Gigabyte is even less specific about its new business offering, with it only saying that it'll be "something very different to what they have before," but it does thankfully have quite a bit to say about the GSmart S1200, which fills out the company's style quotient. As you can see above, this one's a touchscreen phone, and runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 with a new Gigabyte-developed interface atop it dubbed Smart Zone. At 0.43-inches, the phone is also reasonably slim, and it doesn't look to be too underpowered with a 528MHz Qualcomm 7200A processor under the hood. More details as we get 'em.
If you are wondering how fast is 528mhz Qualcomm 7200A processor, take a look at Xpreia X1. It has the same CPU.
Pretty much all touch screen smart phones out there now have a 500-600 Mhz ARM9 core. What makes the phone is the interface and the software.
That's where they interface is critical. The OS's are the same, but the proprietary overlaid interface by the key to performance.
ARM9??? You mean ARM11 right?
All these different touch models being released... one has yet to come out that hasn't photocopied the iphone..
Because the iphone photocopied prior phones!
Please take your trash comments and your ilk away from this blog!
My 2004 PDA photocopied the iPhone?
The iPhone is a LG Prada copy.
Even though the iPhone's release date was after the LG Prada, the iPhone design started and finished before LG. Check the patents related to the iPhone as early as 2004. Also, the iPhone was submitted to the FCC for approval way before LG's Prada. The reason the Prada came out first was because LG already had it's supply chain running smooth while Apple still had issues with the packaging box.
trash comments? its idiots like you who should ..how you say ''ilk away from this blog''
how about countering it with an actual example instead of having no f'in idea of what your saying
What he means to say is that previous phones had things like "screens", "touch-capability", and "applications."
Clear indication of the iphone's lack of originality.
Caution! Your will comment now get low-ranked by stating the complete obvious. The fact that the entire industry is following Apple is a verity. Undebatable. The iPhone was in developement years before that crappy LG Prada came out, and it's UI is NOTHING like the iPhone. Its cheap crap. Dont even bother trying to argue with nerds with zero taste.
lol only a noob to engadget would try replying to a reply....
And yes, there were very many smartphones that the iphone copied features from. Go google it, cause you're pretty effin wrong and we don't have the patience to hold a fanboy's hand on google.
For future reference, look up a word like "ilk" before you go to use it in a sentence, since you have no idea how to use it properly.
I have handled both the Experia X1 and the HTC Touch HD (both use the qualcomm) and the interfaces of both are super slow. All the reviews have noted this, but it seems reviewers are hesitant to be negative about a wvga phone. In my opinion, winmo + wvga + qualcomm = super slowmo interface. Why do you think the Iphone, G1, Pre, and Storm are all hvga? Because they prioritized speedy response time over screen resolution, and it looks like customers agree. If you want a wvga winmo phone with a nice interface that is not irritatingly slow, wait for snapdragon.
Amen to that. A high-end "528MHz Qualcomm" WM 6.1 device? What is that WMC 2008?
Sleek professional design though... it "looks" like a Gigabyte phone...
I think it has less to do with the resolution and more to do with if the ARM chipset has an implementation of PowerVR graphics and if the proper drivers are utilized by the OS. Many companies skimp out on graphics acceleration..
Awesome! Another phone that we'll NEVER SEE IN THE UNITED STATES.
Say what you will about the iPhone, but without it, we wouldn't be getting all these smexy tablet phones
The bar for smartphones would also be a lot higher.
Say what you will about the iPhone, but without it, we wouldn't be getting all these smexy tablet phones
I agree with you completely. Also, the 'UI' placed on top of the WinMo (Xperia panels, TouchFlo, TouchWiz etc etc) came into existence only after the grand success of the iPhone.
Did anyone else see "S1200" and 'though $1200?!? are they crazy?'
More like $600-800. Yes, they are totally crazy with S60 taking away most possible buyers, its significantly cheaper.
Gigabyte?
They was nearly going instinct the Motherboard market.
Had pretty good 2008 in that market, I would say a comeback.
So I guess Gigabyte fell they can now join Asus and MSI in branching out.
the only reason you disaprove of the iphone is because you hate the fact that apple dominates the market today.. i love how you say go google it, all you guys do is contradict what other people say because you find yourself clever if you differ from the rest of the public, and i'll repeat my original post.. a phone with all touchpad capabilities has yet to come out that hasn't photocopied the iphone..
one last thing.. the fact you say ''noob'' is beyond pathetic.
by your definition of "copy," how can any phone with only a touchscreen NOT "copy" the iphone? take the HTC Touch HD. it has more buttons on the bottom, a larger, higher-res screen, resistive touchscreen instead of capacitive, a completely different OS, and a skin that looks nothing like the iphone's. how is that copying the iphone? how the fuck can you get more different than that?
and the only market apple dominates is music players. the iphone's market share is a measly 1.1%, while OSX is at about 8%.
so there, i googled it for you. now fuck off, moron.
MSM7200A, does it mean SLOW device like diamond, touch pro , HD and X1????
who thinks at least one of these phones will be the iPhone killer?
Go kill something in the woods, just make a phone we need.