BenQ-Siemens P51 now available (in China, that is)

by Chris Ziegler posted Nov 18th 2006 at 4:32PM

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]

Filed under: Handsets, Windows Mobile, GSM, GPRS

Tags: benq, benq-siemens, china, gps, p51, phone edition, PhoneEdition, pocket pc, PocketPc, siemens, windows mobile, WindowsMobile

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GiODi @ Nov 18th 2006 4:38PM

How's it staying on the dash?

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Pablo @ Nov 18th 2006 6:34PM

GiODi: it's just resting on those two knobs - doesn't look like it's in a stand or anything of the sort.

P.S. first thing i noticed about the pic: "that's my car!" it's an accord, btw

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Eric Sinclair @ Nov 18th 2006 7:09PM

What's even funnier is that the Honda Accord dash appears above an advertisement for Ford Motor Co. in the RSS feed....

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Kelly @ Nov 19th 2006 11:47AM

$800 for the thing with buttons which I don't even imagine how to push?

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fyrestarrter @ Nov 19th 2006 10:14PM

Kelly, actually I have owned pretty much every $600+ pdaphone out there & I have to tell you that the BENQ P50 I had keys were ABSOLUTELY the easiest to use. I will be importing one of these as a backup to my 8100 when it is time to do some serious work. The keys, the camera, & the processor on this unit are UNBLIEVEABLE. I wish we could get demoes in the US so more people could see what I was talking about.

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