[PaulOBrien]

Chinese mobile site 'PhoneDaily' has some great pics of the forthcoming Windows Mobile Smartphone from Benq (what, they still exist?), the E72.

The 13mm thick device, which apparently packs some serious new cost-saving technology under the skin, features Windows Mobile 6 (of course), a 2 Megapixel Camera, microSD expansion, WiFi and some nice looking UI customisations.

Although the PhoneDaily article is in Chinese (not my forte), it's well worth a look for the photos and screenshots alone. I personally like the styling, the photos taken by the device look more than acceptable, and Benq's own tweaks look interesting.

Sadly, I would be surprised to see the device get released outside of Asian markets, but here's hoping for a rock bottom priced release over here eh?



P

[Sponsored Links]

[Ypocaramel]

I've been reading through the Chinese, and admittingly I'm not the best reader, but the only real substance is far is about the camera. It's okay, they say, with a little red bias, and has a oil painting effect under insufficient lighting. The rest of the vitals you can actually gleam from the English / Arabic numerals.

I'm probably too lazy to slog through the rest for such a phone that really isn't so exciting.

[alpineone]

Some specs:

TI OMAP 1030 260MHz
QuadBand
Windows Mobile™ 6 standard
Integrated Camera 2.0 megapixels
Dedicated key for audio message and voice commander
Display: 240X320, 2" , 65K color TFT LCD
GPRS multi-slot class 10/EDGE
WLAN 802.11b/g
Bluetooth® 2.0 w/ EDR
USB 2.0
Java MIDP 2.0
Memory: Internal memory: 128MB Flash ROM + 64MB DDR RAM
Extended memory: microSD™ Card supported up to 2GB
Dimensions: 108 x 46.3 x 13.8 mm
Weight: 90g

And most important: Qisda to start shipping UMA-compliant smartphone to Europe

This post has been edited by alpineone: 15 October 2007 - 05:13 PM

[uniqlo]

i've got a testing sample on hand. it's a very good smartphone indeed. i have been testing it for nearly 1 month.

it's fast, it's thin, and it's light....

only if benQ can include M$ Office to E72 will be perfect. (anyway, it isn't difficult to find one using google... )

[alpineone]

uniqlo, on Oct 21 2007, 17:21, said:

i've got a testing sample on hand. it's a very good smartphone indeed. i have been testing it for nearly 1 month.

it's fast, it's thin, and it's light....

only if benQ can include M$ Office to E72 will be perfect. (anyway, it isn't difficult to find one using google... )

What about display - ist't too small?

Can you post some fotos of e72?

[PaulOBrien]

I'm actually quite looking forward to trying one of these!

P

[uniqlo]

alpineone, on Oct 23 2007, 04:32, said:

What about display - ist't too small?

Can you post some fotos of e72?

sorry, i'm a bit hurry, and cannot upload to my flickr album... so, pls click the link to view the photos first. see whether i can take more photo tomorrow...

http://www.uploadhou...e.php?id=640321
http://www.uploadhou...e.php?id=640320
http://www.uploadhou...e.php?id=640319
http://www.uploadhou...e.php?id=640318

i will add some description to the photos later... have to go now...

This post has been edited by uniqlo: 23 October 2007 - 09:57 AM

[PaulOBrien]

Is the screen QVGA?

P

[alpineone]

Paul (MVP), on Oct 23 2007, 12:08, said:

Is the screen QVGA?

P

Yes.

http://benq.com/products/mobile/?product=1...=specifications

[alpineone]

uniqlo, on Oct 23 2007, 11:54, said:

sorry, i'm a bit hurry, and cannot upload to my flickr album... so, pls click the link to view the photos first. see whether i can take more photo tomorrow...

http://www.uploadhou...e.php?id=640321
http://www.uploadhou...e.php?id=640320
http://www.uploadhou...e.php?id=640319
http://www.uploadhou...e.php?id=640318

i will add some description to the photos later... have to go now...

Thx for photos! Any chance for more? or maybe small review?

[uniqlo]

alpineone, on Oct 28 2007, 03:42, said:

Thx for photos! Any chance for more? or maybe small review?

my testing unit has been sent back for final firmware update, it seems, it will be launch soon.

for the last firmware i've got, some surprise i've found:
1) it has fizz traveller built-in
2) facade also built-in

so, besides the good looking flash homescreen, i can just copy facade homescreen templates and use them directly. saves me some $$$...

the battery life is quite good, unlike the graphite, i can charge it every 2.5 days, even for heavy usage, it can last at least 1 full day.

its size is very very small, even smaller than my wife's sonyericsson phone.

though it's not a 3G phone, the speed when using EDGE is excellent!!

one disappointment:

it didn't have M$ office built-in, anyway, it didn't bother me much, finding a M$ office is easy, thanks for google!!


BTW, i've got another BenQ smartphone on hand... guess what it is??

[alpineone]

uniqlo, on Oct 28 2007, 18:26, said:

so, besides the good looking flash homescreen, i can just copy facade homescreen templates and use them directly. saves me some $...

Is there a possibility to disable flash homescreen and using the standard wm6 appearance?

uniqlo, on Oct 28 2007, 18:26, said:

BTW, i've got another BenQ smartphone on hand... guess what it is??

BenQ T80?

This post has been edited by alpineone: 28 October 2007 - 07:17 PM

[uniqlo]

alpineone, on Oct 29 2007, 03:06, said:

Is there a possibility to disable flash homescreen and using the standard wm6 appearance?

BenQ T80?

1) of course you can!!

2)

[PaulOBrien]

Let's hope this comes out soon, and CHEAP (which is the idea behind the handset).

T80 looks interesting too.

P

[uniqlo]

Paul (MVP), on Oct 29 2007, 18:39, said:

Let's hope this comes out soon, and CHEAP (which is the idea behind the handset).

T80 looks interesting too.

P

E72 will launch soon in Asia, the price is around $350 - 400us.

for T80, it's a special machine... with a special feature!!! NFC..

[alpineone]

uniqlo, on Oct 29 2007, 14:40, said:

E72 will launch soon in Asia, the price is around $350 - 400us.

A bit cheaper than SPV E650.

[alpineone]

uniqlo, on Oct 29 2007, 14:40, said:

for T80, it's a special machine... with a special feature!!! NFC..

"The BenQ T80 phone is the world's first handset to store NFC applications in the Secure Digital Memory card. The microSD card will host a range of NFC applications for mobile wallet, transport ticketing and security to be stored on the embedded, highly secure NXP SmartMX chip." - http://www.slashphon...m/104/8195.html

This feature?

[alpineone]

I've found one of these on ebay http://tinyurl.com/yrvm99. Cheap, only 349.80 USD.

[PaulOBrien]

Not bad!

P

[panzik]

hello, you can find my experience with this phone here: http://www.modaco.com/content-page/264113/benq-e72-unboxed/page/20/

[Sponsored Links]