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Apr 23 2008

T-Mobile’s Shadow II revealed in spy pic

Posted by: admin in Mobile Tech

Just when we were getting used to T-Mobile’s Shadow, it appears we’re going to have to make room in our pockets for its successor… the Shadow II. Picking up nearly exactly where the first iteration left off, this grainy spy shot reveals that its going to be more of the same for the revamp, save for some new rounded edges and oh-so-chic reflective finish. We’ll assume the company is sticking to the plan with a slide out numeric keypad, but you never know; they could be hiding a QWERTY under there… or some kind of weird Gremlin.

[Thanks, Jason]

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Quad-band watch phone rolls on Windows CE 5.0

Posted by: admin in Mobile Tech

Filed under: Handsets, GSM, Misc

Ready for some honesty? We can think of a good handful of timepieces that we’d purchase before we dropped $629.95 on this catastrophe, but for folks with pants too slim and hands too full to carry around a separate cellphone, we suppose it’s a so-so alternative. The EGP-WP98 claims to be the first quad-band GSM watch phone to come with Windows CE 5.0 installed, and while it’s supposed to tout a SIM card slot, water-resistance, a 266MHz CPU and a 1.45-inch display with handwriting recognition (for real?), that tiny line informing us that specifications are “subject to change without notice” makes us a touch leery. Nevertheless, you can also anticipate (though you might not get) a 1.3-megapixel camera, WiFi, a T-Flash expansion slot, multimedia player and built-in Bluetooth. According to one particular e-tailer, it’ll be ready to ship on April 25th — whether or not anyone’s fat-fingered enough to push an order through, however, remains to be seen.

[Via UnwiredView]

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