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E-Ten Tunes into Mobile TV with V900 Smartphone

By James Alan Miller
February 4, 2008

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At the Mobile (formally 3GSM) World Congress later this month, E-Ten plans to introduce its first smartphone, the Glofiish V900, to support mobile TV and a new model with a QWERTY thumb-keyboard, the Glofiish M810.

With the V900, E-Ten is covering nearly all its mobiTV bases, through support for DVB-H, DAB, DVB-T, and T-DMB broadcasts. Qualcomm's MediaFlo, used by Verizon Wireless and, soon, AT&T Wireless in the U.S. is just about the only mobile television standard the V900 can't handle.

The Windows Mobile Professional/Pocket PC Phone has a VGA (640 x 480 pixel) resolution display to make watching events like the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing easy on the eyes.

A proprietary touch-GUI layer from E-Ten runs on top of Windows Mobile to better allow people's fingers to interface with the smartphone. So what we've also got here with the V900 is another so-called iPhone killer.

Additional known features include Wi-Fi, 3.5G HSDPA cellular-wireless data networking for GSM carriers, Bluetooth and integrated GPS to support location-based services, such as mapping and routing.

While the M810 adds a keyboard to make it a more messaging-centric smartphone, it loses the V900's support for mobile TV. Like the other model, it's got 3.5G HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth, however.

There's also a 2-megapixel auto-focus camera and built-in JAVA support.

We expect to learn more about both of these smartphones when E-Tes shows them off at its booth during the Mobile World Congress.



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