E-TEN glofiish X500 smartphone gets official

by Paul Miller, posted Oct 30th 2006 at 11:02AM

While its hard to take a Pocket PC phone seriously that goes by the name of "glofiish," and even harder to take it seriously when it ain't got no 3G data, we're still fairly impressed with E-TEN's new X500 phone. The glofiish X500 packs in SiRF Star III GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11b/g WiFi, and an EDGE radio all into a 0.6-inch thick form factor. While it was at it, E-TEN stuff in a 2 megapixel camera, 2.8-inch QVGA screen, 400MHz Samsung processor, 128MB ROM, 64MB RAM and a microSD slot. No surprises, since we spotted this thing a few weeks ago, but now it's getting "official," with an expected November launch and that silly glofiish moniker. Still no word on price.

[Via Mobility Site ]

Filed under: Handsets, Windows Mobile, GSM, GPRS, EDGE

Tags: e-ten, glofiish, pocket pc, PocketPc, x500

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JL @ Oct 30th 2006 2:45PM

Nice!

I'd prefer a device like this even with EDGE..
If it's stateside, I bet T-Mobile gets this vs
the cingy... (bummer - although if that's the case
it may be enough to make me switch from cingy to T-mob)

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Virtuous @ Oct 30th 2006 4:21PM

I doubt any US carrier will pick up any E-TEN phone. American customers will have to import it.

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Alex @ Oct 30th 2006 5:25PM

Wi-fi b/g, bluetooth 2.0, fast 400 mhz proc., quad-band/EDGE, 2 megapixel camera, fm-radio AND GPS!! best upcoming phone if 3G is not a priority. Here's some additional pics with video & a review(in Russian):
http://www.mobinaute.com/mobinaute/article.php?id=20061030112319
http://www.hpc.ru/lib/arts/2232/

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Remy @ Oct 30th 2006 6:35PM

That thing looks a lot like my lifedrive.. the lines, the curvature..

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BloodWolf @ Oct 31st 2006 8:25AM

@Remy

Yeah, but a LOT thinner!

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Mr.Ramli Hj.Ahmad Sabilan @ Jun 26th 2007 4:36AM

So far so good....Pls let me know the direct distributor for Malaysia

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