ViewSonic throws caution to the wind, plans own 3G smartphone
By Darren Murph 
posted May 11th 2009 9:27PM
posted May 11th 2009 9:27PM
Take it from Garmin-Asus -- making a smartphone ain't exactly easy sauce. Regardless of the facts, ViewSonic has decided it prudent to jump head first into the tumultuous waters known only as "the smartphone industry," announcing today plans to create its very own offering that'll undoubtedly compete with the likes of HTC, Samsung, LG, Apple and the rest of the gang. The portfolio addition brings it a major step closer to realizing a "3- to 300-inch product line," but outside of a launch pattern, no details whatsoever were dished out. We're told that China will get the phone first, with Europe and the Americas following suit. We'll go ahead and start the vaporware watch now, just so we aren't caught off guard when there's nary a mention of this at CES 2010.
if it comes with the birds (and android) im sold
Seriously.. if it carries Android and has decent multimedia capabilities, I am sold!
sick
i think im going to make a smart phone too.
Yeah! Me too! It will be totally pimped and blinged out! ;)
Maybe I'm way off, but this seems like a bad business decision on ViewSonic's part.
Viewsonic has made WinMo PDA's before, so it's not really foriegn territory for them.
Well, if ViewSonic make an impressive display for the Phone, I'm sold. Here's what an impressive display means:
- 800x480 widescreen
- AMOLED
- Capacitive Multitouch
- Shows Tegra graphics underneath (watch this demo: http://www.nvidia.com/object/mobile_games_demos.html)
as long as the speakers do not cover half of the phone's dimensions.
I have always loved the Viewsonic birds
Gotta admit, the birdies would make a good default background. The display should rock at the very least. If I was a company with a couple dozen million and the skillz, I'd make a Pre knockoff that runs Android. And make sure it sold for about $150 on contract. I think I'd make back my investment.
Let's all remember that Apple doesn't actualy *make* the iPhone. It's contracted out to the Chinese. No reason ViewSonic won't/can't do the same.
Terry Thomas
President
PC Tech
Atlanta, Georgia USA
and they wonder why businesses are failing...
Dayumn, Engadget that is harsh. I should have expected something like that considering they like fruit and not birds. No, faith and you couldn't just do an unbiased thing like Hey Viewsonic might be making a phone will post more details when available. No, you had to go and be jerks.
Unbiased journalism no longer exists and it makes me sad.
"That logo is awesome!" - 1980
Back in the day (hell, they still make some of the best monitors out there) those birds meant quality. Sure, they could update it, but it's still pretty awesome.
The font however, can walk it's lame ass back to wherever it came from.
(And just out of curiosity, what is your avatar? It looks like some sort of luck dragon / snake / Pokemon hybrid thing.)
It's a mimiga. (play Cave Story. It's easily the awesomest 2D game ever made)
I am glad to see this happening. I thought this was the whole point of Android, to get the tech sector making more phones that don't run Winmo.