ETEN GLOFiSH X610 MOBILE PHONE

Price: $849.99

OVERVIEW:
Today E-TEN announced its latest affordable addition to its Glofiish lineup of Windows Mobile Professional powered smartphones, the X610.

E-TEN's new finger touch UI extensions, which we first saw under NDA at the 2008 Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, have an HTC TouchFLO-like appearance and provide users with 3D effects and large, finger-friendly buttons and icons to make it easier to control the X610 one-handedly, without the need for a stylus (which is still included). We haven't seen the final version of the software, but what we saw in February looked promising.

Details on the X610 are otherwise a bit sparse, other than the fact that it has a built-in GPS module, but the device does seem to be the obvious successor to the X600, a smartphone equipped with a QVGA touchscreen display and quad-band GSM/EDGE network support. One thing is certain, though, the X610 runs the latest version of the Windows Mobile Professional OS: 6.1.

Update: E-TEN has told us that the x610 supports quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity. It sports a 400MHz Samsung processor, and has 128MB of internal flash and 64MB of application RAM. It has a 2 megapixel fixed focus camera out back, and a 2.8" QVGA resolution main display. The X610 also sports a microSD card slot for storage expansion, Bluetooth and WiFi, and a built-in FM radio. The device weighs 132g (4.7oz) with its 1530mAh battery in place, and measures up at 107mm x 58mm x 14.7mm (4.2" x 2.3" x .6").


SPECIFICATIONS:

General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Size Dimensions 107 x 58 x 15 mm
Weight 136 g
Display Type TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
Size 320 x 240 pixels, 2.8 inches
- Handwriting recognition
Ringtones Type Polyphonic (192 channels), MP3
Customization Download
Vibration Yes
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), microSDHC
- 128 MB Flash ROM, 64 MB SDRAM
- Samsung S3C2442 400 MHz Processor
Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD No
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G No
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0
Infrared port No
USB Yes, miniUSB
Features OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser HTML (PocketIE)
Games Yes
Colors Black
Camera 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels, flash, video
- GPS receiver with SiRF Star III chipset
- Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer)
- Windows MPlayer 10
- Direct push technology
- Organiser
- Voice memo
- Built-in handsfree
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion