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, Reviews, BenQ-Siemens, Windows Mobile, GSM, GPRSSuffering from one of the most excruciatingly long, drawn-out releases in smartphone history, BenQ’s, uh, Treo 600-killing P50 had already fallen behind the pack by the time it made it to the masses. That being said, it’s still a unique Windows Mobile device — albeit 2003 Second Edition — and worthy of an in-depth review, especially considering its quadband GSM capability. MobileTechReview’s done the honors for us here, noting that the P50 is bundled with an array of high-quality accessories, including a screen protector (hallelujah). Build quality was found to be impressive, as was size, though anyone migrating from a Treo will find little difference there. The P50’s 416MHz XScale satisfies the speed demon in us in ways most other Pocket PC phones have not, but the 128MB combined ROM and RAM is a disappointment — a complaint the P51 happily addresses. In the end, MobileTechReview finds the P50’s flaws too great to justify the cost of admission. With nothing but GPRS for data, we agree, especially with a successor waiting in the wings.

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Source: www.engadgetmobile.com

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You know, it’s too bad that BenQ-Siemens’ European operations had to go under before it managed to get this slick handset out the door. From what we can make out based on these photos spotted on a Czech website, BenQ-Siemens had developed a “Black Box concept phone,” which took home some Chinese design award earlier this year. The idea apparently is to turn the phone into one large screen, and change function depending on whatever application you need at the time: a calculator, an FM radio, the phone itself (duh), and something that looks like a game involving a goldfish and possibly a bathtub drain (we’re not really sure). You know, this reminds us a lot of that possible iPhone patent we spotted earlier this month — hopefully Apple can pick up where BenQ-Siemens left off?

[Via Slashphone]

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Source: www.engadgetmobile.com

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Save for a recent cameo in the FCC’s files, BenQ’s latest P51 Pocket PC phone has been a longstanding resident of vaporware land — and thanks to the relentless, ever-onward march of time, a phone that had some folks drooling when it was first announced is now relegated to the midrange. Yeah, we’re a little jaded about the whole thing, but anyone still interested in picking up the GPS-enabled QWERTY Pocket PC can apparently now do so over in China for around 6500 yuan ($825, give or take). Now if you’ll excuse us, we need to walk to the Cingular store to pick up an HP hw6925 for, like, half the dinero.

[Via Pocket PC Thoughts]

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Source: www.engadgetmobile.com

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