A new non-QWERTY smartphone?

[Guest Jakob]

As the topic says..

When can we expect a non-qwerty smartphone? I´m not interested in carrying a brick in my pocket - nothing C500-sized has been released since.. eh.. since the C500.. The 8310 (HTC Whatever) was big in comparison and now the trend obviously is huge brick-size phones with keyboards.

We´ve got the Hermes, but some genious forgot about processing speed, WI-FI and size when he came up with the idea.

Any news - anyone??

/Jakob

[Guest chucky.egg]

Hermes is a PPC not a Smartphone, so assuming you're looking for a Smartphone and not a touch-screen PDA...

There's the SPL (very thin)

The Blackjack (quite thin, widescreen)

The SP5 (imate SP5, O2 XDA IQ etc) which is about C500 size with WM5 and WiFi

There's supposed to be a new 3G Smartphone from HTC (I think) on O2 soon, can't recall the name though

[Guest Jakob]

Sorry - not Hermes - the MTeoR..

The SPL is longer and wider than the C500 (no Wi-FI, no Edge)

The Blackjack is much longer and much wider as the C500

The SP5 is albeit the same size as C500, but feels bulkier (and more than a year old)

The Asus Graphite looks promising but the design is quite boring (and no wi-fi) (and bigger than c500)

Any ideas?

/jakob

Hermes is a PPC not a Smartphone, so assuming you're looking for a Smartphone and not a touch-screen PDA...

There's the SPL (very thin)

The Blackjack (quite thin, widescreen)

The SP5 (imate SP5, O2 XDA IQ etc) which is about C500 size with WM5 and WiFi

There's supposed to be a new 3G Smartphone from HTC (I think) on O2 soon, can't recall the name though

[Guest pierre]

Sorry - not Hermes - the MTeoR..

The SPL is longer and wider than the C500 (no Wi-FI, no Edge)

The Blackjack is much longer and much wider as the C500

The SP5 is albeit the same size as C500, but feels bulkier (and more than a year old)

The Asus Graphite looks promising but the design is quite boring (and no wi-fi) (and bigger than c500)

Any ideas?

/jakob

Hi, fully agree. The C500 was (or is still) just great, and it is high time a similar phone comes out.

In addition of what the C500 got already, it should include:

-more capacity (lets' talk Gb here)

-faster processor, of course

-WIFI

-3G

-2 or 3 Megapixel camera (not necessarily a front one)

-3.5mm jack in addition of a mini usb (I know I'm dreaming)

-Some solide softs, such as voip, BT' handling, etc.

Feel free to add more features and to forward it to HTC' developers, ha ha! ;-)

[Guest Confucious]

The C600 is a souped up C500 - only really lacking 3G

All you people who want WiFi obviously haven't tried it - I stopped using on my Universal when I got unlimited 3G. WiFi EATS batteries which makes it pretty useless IMHO. I'd much rather have unlimited 3G

[Guest Looby]

Due out on i-mate in February 2007........ :)

[Guest mikeeey]

The C600 is a souped up C500 - only really lacking 3G

All you people who want WiFi obviously haven't tried it - I stopped using on my Universal when I got unlimited 3G. WiFi EATS batteries which makes it pretty useless IMHO. I'd much rather have unlimited 3G

but 3G u have to pay for rite? i dont like paying for anything extra really.