The company behind the General Mobile DSTL1 Android smartphone design, Yuhua, have followed up with a new reference design. Yet to find a distributor, the Yuhua Xphone-SDK is a sleek full-touchscreen handset that is vaguely reminiscent of some of LG’s recent devices.
Unfortunately the good looks are, where it really matters, only skin-deep. The Xphone-SDK is limited to EDGE data, which when you’re living in the cloud as Google envisage could lead to some significant slow-downs, and has a mere 128MB of RAM and 256MB of ROM.
Yuhua do promise a 3G version at some point in the future, and the 3-megapixel camera, WiFi and Bluetooth is certainly welcome, but we wouldn’t suggest you hold out much hope to see the Xphone-SDK on shelves any time in the near future.
- Processor — Marvell PXA-310 624Mhz
- Memory — 128MB SDRAM; 256MB internal ROM
- Flash — MicroSD card slot for up to 16GB external
- Cellular — 900/1800/1900MHz GPRS/EDGE
- Display — 3-inch TFT WQVGA (240 x 400)
- WiFi — 802.11b/g
- Bluetooth — Bluetooth 2.0
- Camera — 3Mpix camera (no flash)
- Video playback — H.264, streaming, 3GPP, MPEG4, Codec 3GP
- Audio playback — G-streamer based engine supports major codec media files, including MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, MPEG4, WAV, MIDI
- Image support — JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF
- Web and messaging — HTTP, WAP Push, xHTML, SMS, MMS
- Other features — Data kits for USB/JTAG connectivity
- Battery — 1000mAh
- Operating system — Android (Linux/Java)
[via EngadgetMobile]
EDGE is ok for surfing and absolutely enough to keep Contacts and eMail in sync.
whats nice about it is the 624MHz Marvell processor. I had a Samsung i780 Windows Mobile phone with this CPU and it was much faster than the 528MHz Qualcomm based HTCs I also had (X1).
to bad the screen is that crappy...