Gigabyte GSmart MS800 Mobile Phone
July 7, 2008
Today the UK mobile market is flooded with scores of mobile phone designs. At times, you wonder at the optimism level of a good lot of manufacturers. Watching the rat run is more amusing than pondering over the prime motorway where the rat race takes place. Here, you watch aspirers from nowhere bludgeoning the scene with bizarre products, simply with a view to course themselves to the prime motorway as mainstream challengers. Scenario is no different here, as a Taiwanese wannabe launches their maiden venture, the Gigabyte GSmart MS800 Quad Band Mobile Phone , studded with features, of which, Windows Mobile Today interface stands tall.
Really Fast
In the course of time, you will find that the model’s communication downloading pace is tremendous for the introduction of the HSDPA technology apart from the advanced 3G constituents - a Quad Band GSM, UMTS and EDGE. You know well that as the 3G factor is considerably faster than the good old GPRS, the HSDPA technology provides a speed, nine times that of a 3G device at 7.2 Mbps. Furthermore, you have some advanced delicacies of the time to assist you in the mobile phone like the WiFi WLAN and Bluetooth 2.0 as interfaces for data transfer and WAP for smart browsing. Since this is the first PDA phone from Gigabyte, they have painstakingly loaded the device with the smartest and latest messaging aspects as the Windows Push E-mail and the MMS apart from the conventional SMS.
Real Fun
The ride starts with a 2.8" extra large QVGA LCD TFT Touchscreen that forms the fundamental to shoulder a galaxy of technological stunners. A 2 MP camera with digital zoom, Autofocus and video recording is a nice resort to an aspiring shutterbug as the music savvy in you can be more than satiated with a remarkable media player allowing MP3, AAC, WMA, AMR, WAV, MID G files. Further, as much as 192 polyphonic ringtones parade your domain virtually offering you a Guard of Honour.
Summary
The Gigabyte GSmart MS800 GPS Mobile Phone proudly sports a GPS receiver for location service. It is flummoxing to know that the receiver is the advanced SirFStar III type. For such a powerful receiver being dissipated to just a locating device with no credential factors to support real navigation as the TMC or Text to Speech features. However, the voice commands given in the device acts a compensator. Other blemishes you find here are a weak battery as well as poor ergonomics-compliance in the designing part.
Technical Specifications of Gigabyte GSmart MS800 Mobile Phone
| General Information | |
|---|---|
| Brand | Gigabyte |
| Model | Gigabyte GSmart MS800 Mobile Phone |
| Colours Available | Green |
| Weight | 130 g |
| Dimensions | 116 x 59 x 14.95 mm |
| Warranty | 1 year |
| Display Features | |
| Display Type | QVGA |
| Size | 2.8" |
| Memory | |
| Phone Memory | 256 MB ROM and 64 MB RAM |
| Memory Expansion Slot | microSD, microSDHC, Transflash, SDIO |
| Ringtones | |
| Type of Ringtones | Polyphonic, MP3 |
| Customized Ringtones | Downloadable |
| Vibration Mode | Yes |
| Connectivity & Internet Features | |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 2.0 |
| GPRS | Yes |
| HSPDA | Yes |
| WiFi | Yes |
| WLAN | Yes |
| UMTS | Yes |
| EDGE | Yes |
| WAP | Yes |
| Features | |
| Messaging | SMS, MMS, Push E-mail |
| Games | Yes |
| Camera | Yes |
| Camera Resolution | 2 MP |
| Other supportive features | MP3, AAC, WMA, GPS, Windows Messenger, FM radio |
| Battery Information | |
| Battery Type | Li-ion 1300 mAh |
| Battery Life in Stand-by Mode | 150 hours |
| Battery Life in Talk Time | 3.5 hours |
Gigabyte GSmart t600 Mobile Phone
June 20, 2008
The Gigabyte GSmart t600 Candybar Mobile Phone is a Smartphone, engaging the Window Mobile 6.0 Professional Operating System as its primary interface. The 2.6" large screen display is smartly fortified with a 640 x 480 pixels resolution, the perfect backdrop for running the MS Office, Windows Media Player as well as the Internet Explorer. The accelerometer in the model sees to it further that the image responds to rotations of the device effectively. The data download efficacy is promptly met by a combined effort of the GPRS and WiFi. However, these days a true business phone in the mind of the smart business executive, definitely complies with the communication data download-speed enhancement criterions like the 3G and HSDPA.
Built for Entertainment
The model trail blazes with the smart inclusion of a DVB-T receiver that entitles the phone to receive standard free-to-air terrestrial TV signals, better known as FreeView. By this, the user can watch certain TV programmes live in the phone. The Taiwanese Gigabyte is also one company that showed the guts to load their product with DVB-H mobile TV standard. However, it is of little use in the U.K, since the unavailability of broadcast. The DAB radiobroadcast support rendered by the Gigabyte GSmart t600 FreeView Mobile Phone further substantiates the model’s claim as one device supporting the most advanced entertainment aspects. The phone further accommodates a 2 Megapixels camera and a Multimedia player. Wireless data transfer is enhanced in the device with the inclusion of the Bluetooth 2.0.
Technical Specifications of Gigabyte GSmart t600 Mobile Phone
| General Features | |
|---|---|
| Brand | Gigabyte |
| Model | Gigabyte GSmart t600 |
| Colours Available | White |
| Weight | 140 g |
| Dimensions | 110 x 56 x 19 mm |
| Display Features | |
| Display Type | 262K colours |
| Size | 480 x 640 2.6" |
| Memory | |
| Memory Expansion Slot | microSD |
| Ringtones | |
| Type of Ringtones | Polyphonic |
| Vibration Mode | Yes |
| Connectivity & Internet Features | |
| Bluetooth | Yes |
| GPRS | Yes |
| WiFi | Yes |
| Features | |
| Camera | Yes |
| Camera Resolution | 2 MP |
| Battery Information | |
| Battery Life in Stand-by Mode | 144 hours |
| Battery Life in Talk Time | 4 hours |
