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New mobiles from the MWC 2008 show

The Mobile World Congress 2008 show (previously known as 3GSM) is one of the major annual events for mobile devices. In this 2008 edition, the handsets presents were often done so with the double features of GPS and touch screens. Tendencies that we will no doubt see filter through during the coming year. We were present to discover each of the different aspects on display.

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New mobiles from the MWC 2008 show

February 22nd, 2008 - 12:21 pm ET by C. D.
  1. 1 - Introduction
  2. 2 - Nokia, Motorola
  3. 3 - Sony Ericsson
  4. 4 - LG
  5. 5 - Samsung
  6. 6 - The Readius ebook reader / mobile phone
  7. 7 - HTC P3470, Toshiba G810, Eten V900 and Eten M810
  8. 8 - Google Android, Garmin nüvifone

Among the different Windows Mobile handsets, besides the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, we also discovered the new release from HTC, the HTC P3470 PDAphone (code name Pharos). Nothing out of the ordinary in the model, that comes with a navigation ball in place of the traditional directional cross.

MWC 2008 HTC P3470 03 MWC 2008 HTC P3470 01


Here we can see the presence of an integrated A-GPS receiver, associated to the TomTom navigation software. The touch screen is running QVGA and the device is WiFi compatible. It should be noted that HTC took advantage of the show to officially launch its HTC Shift UMPC (finally!) which should see imminent commercialisation.

MWC 2008 HTC Shift 01 MWC 2008 HTC Shift 02


From their side of things, Toshiba has added a new model to their 2008 Portégé range. After the Toshiba G710 smartphone and the Toshiba G910/G920 PDAphone, that we reviewed in January, its now the Toshiba Portégé G810 PDAphone that has been unveiled at the MWC 2008 show (not to be confused with the Samsung SGH-G810 which runs Symbian S60).

MWC 2008 Toshiba Portege G810 01 MWC 2008 Toshiba Portege G810 02


The Portégé G810 offers a mirror finish, with a directional pad and blue lit tactile buttons for the functions. The device measures only 14mm in thickness, but comes with everything you could ask for in a Windows Mobile handset: WiFi, Bluetooth, A-GPS receiver, FM radio as well as EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA compatibility.

Eten has also presented two PDApones running Windows Mobile 6, one with a full keyboard and the other being DVB-H compatible for Mobile TV. Here as well, the two models seem to quite complete in their level of functions.

MWC 2008 Eten M810 01 MWC 2008 Eten M810 02


The Eten Glofiish M810 PDAphone presents with a side sliding keyboard and QVGA display. It has a GPS receiver as well as WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity options. We also note the presence of a Samsung 500 MHz processor and EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA compatibility.

MWC 2008 Eten V900 02 MWC 2008 Eten V900 03


The Eten Glofiish V900 PDAphone is the first model from the Taiwanese maker to implement a DVB-H chip for Mobile TV, with a small antenna on the bottom left hand side. It is also EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA compatible and benefits from a VGA screen resolution and TV output.


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