Legend readies major Smartphone 2002 attack

WHILE SMARTPHONE 2002 products may appear to be lolling around in the doldrums, it appears that manufacturers are pushing ahead with wireless enabled Pocket PC devices.

Taiwanese newspaper DigiTimes said that Wistron will start supplying Legend with its ET180 wireless PDA this month (June). Sources agree that Legend's Lenovo ET 180 features a 400 MHz Intel PXA255 processor, 64MB of RAM, 32MB of ROM and a 65K colour semi-transflective TFT LCD screen.

Like the Sony Ericsson the ET180 will also feature a detachable flip keypad. While there's been heavy speculation as to what air interface the handset will sport, it appears to be a GSM/GPRS device although there are also rumours a cdmaOne/CDMA2000 version might also be supplied.

Incidentally DigiTimes tells the INQ that the most likely candidates to build the bSquare PDA for Vodafone which we wrote about would be Quanta Computer and Arima Communication but that's pure speculation, of course.

The specs are here, but in Chinese. µ