The Powers Of Be at the FCC have bestowed their blessings on the upcoming E-TEN Glofish M700 Pocket PC Phone , so expect it to hit the US shores anytime next month! This Windows Mobile Smartphone has a lot of goodies to offer us hungry techies including; WiFi, GPS,GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR,a 2.0 megapixel camera, push email, FM radio etc. No word on pricing or availability.

The Powers Of Be at FCC have given their blessings to the ETEN glofiish X500 and they have re-christened it to "OX500." The GSM handset will support 850 and 1900MHz bands which means you can use this baby in the States regardless of the whims and fancies of Network Carriers. The handset has some decent specs on it including; SiRF Star III GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11b/g WiFi, EDGE radio, 2 megapixel camera, 2.8-inch QVGA screen, 400MHz Samsung processor, 128MB ROM, 64MB RAM and a microSD slot.

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It's been less than a week since Taiwanese electronics manufacturer E-TEN launched its new brand of Pocket PC devices called glofish. Right on top of that new line was X500, the world's thinnest GPS & WiFi enabled Pocket PC.

This week they rolled out another device under the glofish brand the M700. This Pocket PC is distinguished by its slide-out QWERTY keyboard but other than that its pretty much like the X500 - offering everything else except 3G support. And that includes GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, support for Push email, quad-band connectivity, an FM radio and an integrated camera.

The M700 is powered by Windows Mobile 5.0 and should hit stores in time for Christmas.

Via PocketPC Thoughts

The latest tidbit to fall off the rumormill in the mobile phone industry is that E-ten, makers of the Glofiish and X500, intends to put out the M700. The E-ten M700 looks like it could have the same features as the Eten X500 with GPS, but have a sliding QWERTY keyboard.

I’m certain we’ll hear more about in a month or so. So far, it has been rumored that the M700 will be a working PC phone with built-in WiFi and a GPS map for navigation on the go.

Who knows whether these rumors are true? Anyway, we do have a nice picture of it here. I like the set up on that keyboard, though.

It’s amazing how much PC smartphones are starting to resemble old-school palm pilots these days. For example, take the E-TEN X500 glofish smartphone, which has a huge 2.8 inch QVGA screen with 128MB ROM and 64MB of RAM. At 0.6 inches thick, it is one of the thinnest of its type.

Yet it is, of course, fully loaded with features. It has a SiRF Star III GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11b/g WiFi, and EDGE radio. Nice. But wait, there is, of course, more. Not only does it have a 2 megapixel camera, but a micro SD slot.

All of this is optimized with Windows Mobile 5.0. To be honest, I’ve been looking at this phone and I see one thing missing. What is it again…oh yes, buttons! Does this thing have a regular keyboard, or is it a slider phone with a QWERTY in there somewhere? Supposedly, this has “one-thumb” activation for PC commands, but I sure hope those cover basic commands as well.

Eten has a new Pocket PC phone, the G500 with GPS capabilities! It's rumored that the cool-looking device may be released as early as March 2006.

The G500's specs are an almost replica of the M600 model, with the exception that the former does not have Wi-Fi capability. While this may not go well with Wi-Fi punters, I see the GPS as a valuable addition.

Quick look at the specs:

E-TEN has unveiled a new Windows Mobile 5.0 based smartphone called the E-TEN M600. The M600 is a quad band GSM/GPRS phone with a 2.8 inch 65K color touch screen capable of displaying 240 x 320. The phone uses a 400MHz Samsung S3C 2440 processor to power the Windows Mobile OS and comes with 64MB of RAM and 128MB of ROM.

The phone comes with a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, Bluetooth 1.2 support, Wi-Fi 802.11b support, and an SDIO capable SD/MMC slot. You'll get up to 4 hours of talk time and 200 hours of standby using the rechargeable Lithium Ion battery.

The E-TEN M600 is currently available in Taiwan and will come to the US and Europe sometime this month. The phone supports 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz GSM bands and GPRS Class 10. Via InfoSyncWorld.com