iRiver Has a GSM Phone
9 01 2008
CES has held a river of surprises for iRiver watchers, and the surprise keeps on flowing. Remember the one-eyed touchscreen PMP we announced late last year? The W10 is one well-connected PMP but apparently it wasn’t enough for iRiver, adding GSM cellular connectivity to the touchscreen WiFi-enabled device. It has 3 inches of screen space with 480 x 272-pixel resolution. On board is a 2 megapixel camera, GPS and DMB TV tuner. The OS is Linux, a departure from the Windows CE 5.0 of the W10. The user interface actually holds up pretty well with the iPhone user interface, and the best part is that this could be a 3G phone yet. I wonder if it will also support Skyhook and AOL XM radio like the W10. You get an on board 4GB of storage.
Read on for avideo demo.
Thomas replied on Jan 9th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Hehe, now this is what you call an OOGLY-iphone clone..