O2 to get new GPS Smartphone – Arima ‘Flame’
By Will Park on Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 at 9:02 PM PST In Devices, O2, Technologies
Digitimes got the scoop on O2 (NYSE: TEF)’s next GPS smartphone. Apparently, the European GSM carrier hit up Taiwan-based Arima Corporation for 100,000 of some new GPS smartphone. The order comes on the heels of Arima’s recent release of the Arima “Flame.” The
super-high end (read: crazy expensive) Flame rocks out with dual-processors, 2GB of built-in memory, and 3.6 inch LCD. O2’s got their eye on an un-named slim, “3.5G” (HSDPA?), GPS, smartphone – based on the Ericsson Mobile Platform (EMP) version U360.
Any HSDPA-enabled thin, GPS slider is the cat’s meow in our book. We’re willing to bet that O2’s got the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone in its crosshairs with this new smartphone. Keep an eye out for O2’s next move…or just keep checking back for updates!
via: digitimes
