Wistron SP500, New EDA with GPS

Business mobile users from the US should be happy to find out that a new EDA (Enterprise Digital Assistant) might soon be available for them. The device is named Wistron SP500, and the FCC has recently approved it for usage in North America.

Many of you might not know anything about Wistron, so we'll tell you that the Taiwanese company is a former manufacturing division of Acer, currently the fourth largest computer producer in the world. This should be some sort of a guarantee that the new SP500 cleared by FCC is a good-quality device.

The SP500 comes with a design resembling some of RIM's old BlackBerry smartphones, and it sports a full QWERTY keyboard as well as a landscape display, which is, of course, a touchscreen one (probably with 240 x 320 pixels and support for at least 65K colors).

Among the known features of Wistron SP500, we have Wi-Fi, internal GPS, Bluetooth, speakerphone, voice mail and a 3 Megapixel camera with flash, which should provide a pretty good photo quality. The SP500 also features quad-band GSM connectivity with GPRS and EDGE, but there's no 3G connectivity packed in it.

The new EDA runs on Windows Mobile, although we don't know yet if it's the 6.1 edition or an older one. Either way, the handset comes with Pocket Internet Explorer, Pocket Office (for viewing and editing Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents), MS Outlook, Instant Messaging and Windows Media Player 10.

Of course, there are no details yet about the US release of Wistron SP500, or about its price. However, if you happen to like the way it looks (because the features are definitely "likeable"), expect Wistron SP500 to cost at least $500 (on retail) and to hit the market sometime in the next few months.