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E-TEN glofiish X500 review

Nov 16, 2006 gps navigation, phones

E-Ten Glofiish X500 just got reviewed. The 3 page review includes lots of pictures and remarks… Here is some of the most important bits…

The E-TEN glofiish X500 is a quad-band GSM phone with EDGE, including a Samsung S3C2440 400MHz processor, 128MB ROM and 64MB RAM, a 2.8″ QVGA touchscreen, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi (both 802.11b and g), a 2MP camera with flash, integrated SiRFStar III GPS chipset, a microSD slot, and even an FM radio tuner! Wow, that’s quite a feature list. The manufacturer claims that talk time is around 7 hours, while standby time comes in at 200 hours. Not bad.

This phone would be my daily driver if it had 3G. It’s got just about everything a geek could want (perhaps minus a keyboard), and it’s still running slow EDGE. My guess is that if E-TEN finds the glofish brand to be a success, they’ll start producing a device with 3G.

This device includes the fantastic SiRFStar III GPS chipset which features quick satellite acquisition times and low power usage. But where’s the mapping software? I’m not ready to spend another $100+ after having bought a new device. The HTC Artemis P3300, a similar device that has built in GPS, comes with TomTom6 navigation software, why can’t the X500?