Hisense C108, world's first cell phone with mirasol display

I promised you a lot more "first evers" didn't I? Here's one more. The first ever mirasol-enabled cell phone. Produced by Hisense, the C108 is a light-weight, ultra-low-power candy bar with a 1.2-inch mirasol display featuring a resolution of 128x96 pixels. It uses Qualcomm's QSC6010 chipset and has 32MB of ROM and 8MB of memory. The phone will be on display at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona if you want to take a peek.

For the uninitiated, mirasol is a new reflective display technology developed by Qualcomm that "harnesses ambient light and require no backlighting, thereby consuming significantly less power. The reflective mirasol display also automatically scales to the surrounding lighting conditions, allowing users to see their content in almost every environment, even bright sunlight." Incidentally, the Audiovox ARWH1 Stereo Bluetooth Headset was the first product to actually feature a mirasol display.

Other than that, the phone seems pretty limited and the only major feature seems to be its multi-language support. This one is heading to China and other emerging markets later on in 2008.