14 DAY TRIAL // We've seen it officially launched, wearing a 5-way jog bar underneath the display, we've spotted it at home in some more casual clothes with the jog bar out of the way and we have also seen it in some high quality photos.
Now the time has come to see it as it really is, posing for the cameras to let us all see all the things it has to offer. The photos taken during this photo shoot will let you get a little bit closer to the Vox without needing to buy it.
Together with the new high-quality pictures of one of the most wanted handhelds at the beginning of 2007, I also got my hands on a more detailed specifications sheet. The handset is going to run the latest Microsoft mobile operating system, the Windows Mobile 6.0 Crossbow for Smartphone Edition, and as the name of its OS suggests it, the Vox is not going to have a touchscreen for us to play with.
If you are asking yourself where did I came up with this "Vox lacks a touchscreen" idea, you should know that all handhelds running a WM for Smartphone Edition OS are lacking this feature.
Also, the device is not going to sport any type of 3G capabilities so we can say goodbye to high-speed downloads and will have to settle with the old fashioned data transfer connection offered by our carriers.
Turning back to what the Vox features, the spec sheet continues with a 2.4 inch QVGA display with a 240x320 resolution and landscape viewing when the keyboards slide out, a 2 megapixel digital camera, a side slide-out full featured QWERTY keyboard with backlight, a numeric pad, a microSD memory expansion card slot, wireless Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g connectivity, voice command recognition capabilities, a TI OMAP850 processor running at 200 MHz (I know this is kind of disappointing but it will surely help with the battery life due to its low battery consumption), 128MB of Flash ROM memory and 64MB of RAM.
The above specifications can give us a pretty good idea of what the Vox will look like on the stores' shelves and even of how it will behave once we get our hands on it but remember: this is just a prototype and not the end product to be launched on the market. This means changes can be made by the manufacturer at any given time, changes that will reflect directly on the hardware or even on device's software platform.
A launch date or a price tag for the Vox are still unknown at the moment but I will keep you posted with anything else related to this subject.