Thursday, March 25, 2004
Lenovo PPC Phone: Competition for the MPx?
Posted by Pat Logsdon in "HARDWARE" @ 01:00 PM
"It really is quite compact, even if it does weigh about 175g. This still puts it on par with many current Pocket PC devices that contain no mobile phone functionality at all. When you consider that it is a full clamshell handset with a display that flips/rotates to look like a traditional Pocket PC device, it's really quite impressive.
The overall response of the unit was just as you would expect from a 400Mhz PPC with 64MB ram. Quick. The keypad was also quite nice, in a Samsung kind of way. We didn't get a chance to download any of the photos we took with the ET560's internal VGA camera, so we can't really comment on the image quality, but the 262k color, 240x320 pixel display sure was nice."
Mobileburn has posted a quick review of the new Lenovo ET560, with quite a few high-res pictures. All in all, it seems like a pretty solid device. There's no landscape mode, but the flip/twist functionality is quite nice! The keypad also looks a bit less...busy than the MPx, and the screen...262k color?! 8O
Does this just make choosing your next PPC that much harder? :mrgreen:
