14 DAY TRIAL // General Mobile, the US-based company that started manufacturing mobile phones only three years ago, showcases at CeBIT 2008 in Hanover, Germany, several of its latest products.
Besides DST11 and DST22 that we talked about earlier, General Mobile also brings DST 3G COOL and DSTW1, two dual SIM mobile devices created with business users in mind.
As its name shows, DST 3G COOL (or DST3GCOOL) is a 3G-enabled handset that brings UMTS, double SIM technology and cutting-edge video telephony, to offer businessmen on the go anything they might need. DST 3G COOL can use, simultaneously, a SIM card on a UMTS network (900/1800/1900 MHz) and another SIM card on a GSM network (900/1800/1900 MHz). The phone's highlights include a 2.2 inch QVGA display with 262k colors support, GPRS, EDGE, WAP, Internet capabilities, voice recorder, phone call recorder, Bluetooth 2.0, USB, music player (MP3, WAV, WMA, AMR and MIDI), video player (MPEG4 and 3GP), video recorder, 64MB internal memory, microSD card support, 2.0 Megapixel camera and a secondary VGA camera for video calls.
General Mobile DST 3G COOL measures 117 x 49 x 16.5 mm, weighs 109 grams and its 1010 mAh Li-ion battery should provide 180 minutes of talk-time and up to 180 hours of standby time. The handset is expected to hit the market in the second quarter of 2008 for a suggested retail price of 399 Euro (about $606).
DSTW1 is the second General Mobile device targeted for businessmen, and it's probably the first smartphone that embeds the dual SIM technology. DSTW1 runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Crossbow Pocket PC Edition and features dual-EDGE connectivity, OCR Business card reader, GPRS class 10, WAP, Internet capabilities, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point and MSN), Bluetooth 2.0, USB, audio player (MP3, WAV, WMA, ASF, AMR and MIDI support), video player (MPEG4, 3GP, WMV) and video recorder.
The smarthphone weighs 144 grams, measures 117 x 61 x 18.1 millimeters and sports a wide 2.8 inch LCD touchscreen display with 65k colors and a 240 x 320 pixels resolution. Furthermore, General Mobile DSTW1 packs two processors (Ti OMAP 850 200 MHz and Dragon Fly 104 MHz), 256MB of ROM and 64MB of RAM, microSD card support and a 2 Megapixel camera. Its 950 mAh Li-ion battery can provide up to 240 minutes of talk time and 150 hours of stand-by time.
General Mobile DSTW1 should be available for a suggested retail price of 549 Euros ($835), starting the second quarter of 2008.
Live report by Bogdan Popa and Cosmin Vasile from CeBIT 2008 Hanover, Germany.
