BlueBird's BM-500 Pocket PC debuts at CeBIT
If you're in Germany this week and have a chance to hit the CeBIT show, you may be able to peep the new BlueBird BM-500 WM Smartphone (yes, it's Windows Mobile 5-based). This bar handset -- part of the PIDION line -- features a rather nice 2.8 inch touch-screen, EV-DO data speeds, built-in 802.11b WiFi, Bluetooth, the now-standard 1.3 megapixel cam and the less-often used miniSD card slot. Changes we'd make? Get microSD in there and dump the miniSD, upgrade that cam to 2 megapixels and get WM6 in there. Seriously -- WM5? The older BM-200 and BM-300 had this way back when. Come on now; WM5 is so January 2007.
[Via Wired.com]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
NarfPointZort @ Mar 14th 2007 9:18PM
"EV-DO Rev. 0 data speeds"
What source says it has Rev. 0? Neither your Wired link, Aving link, nor a quick Google search state anything more than "CDMA EVDO".
"Get microSD in there"
Why would you want a microSD slot? It's more expensive, it holds less data, and there's no reason for the chip to be that small if there's room for mini or full SD.
You also might want to mention that this phone will only be made available in Korea.
db @ Mar 16th 2007 11:45AM
I agree with you there, NarfPointZort. I don't think that MicroSD can hold as much data at MiniSD yet and besides, MiniSD isn't that much bigger than MicroSD (plus they're pretty much the same thickness). It's not like the phone would be tremendously smaller in size without the MiniSD slot.
Also, this is just my opinion here, but why would you want to upgrade that 1.3 megapixel camera to only a 2 megapixel one? It's not that much of a difference in quality to me except that you can take larger resolution pictures with the 2 megapixel. I'd say at least upgrade it to a 3 megapixel. I've seen so many 2 megapixel camera phones out now that even 2 megapixels is looking more standard to me than 1.3. That's just my 2 cents.