EMOBILE EM-ONE Gives Japan Flat Rate 3.5G Data-Only Handset
By Will Park on Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 2:59 PM PST In Devices, Sharp, Windows Mobile
Oh those lucky Japanese. Their 3G mobile phones are so ubiquitous that, it seems, the only thing left to do was to do away with phone functionality. EMOBILE launches their EM-ONE handset as a 3.5G HSDPA data-only device. With 3.6Mbps on the downstream and 384Kbps of upstream transfer rates, our Japanese friends can enjoy true broadband service wherever they go. And they get it with a flat rate to boot!
And to add some icing to that cake, the EM-ONE boasts impressive features – as a product of co-development by Sharp and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). Sharp brings a dual-sliding qwerty keyboard, 4.1 in. WVGA screen (a first for Japan) with a 800 x 480 resolution, and 18.9 mm. thin form factor to the table. And Microsoft contributes Windows Mobile 5.0 to this potluck.
The EM-ONE doesn’t stop there, it brings WiFi (b/g), built-in one-seg broadcasting, 1.3 mega-pixel shooter, a MarvellPXA270 CPU clocked at 520MHz, and 512MB of Rom and 128MB of RAM.
But for those of us in the US, where 3G is barely rolling out with spotty service (and for the most part, unacceptable service), there’s no use even hoping for a stateside debut.
Via: K-Tai
