07-23-2004, 06:00 PM
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Loox 720 Approved By FCC
"In a further sign that things are progressing fast, the Loox 720 (and 710?) has been approved by the US regulatory body the FCC. This, after Bluetooth qualification (which came in late June), is the final hurdle before it can be released...As the submissions to the FCC are often made by the actual manufacturers (as opposed to the companies that commissioned them), and are usual identified by a code (for the record - the Loox 720 was identified by the code name 'Bali'...!), it has not been certain that this actually was the new Loox until today..."
Duncan, over at FirstLoox, found the FCC entry for the third upcoming VGA Pocket PC (after the HP hx4700 and the Asus A730), and has collected all of the useful info, plus links to the FCC filing itself, into one post. It's worth a look if you've been tracking this PDA for a while.
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07-23-2004, 06:31 PM
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You know, I think it's kinda weird that the Loox and the Asus are so close to being the same device in terms of look and capability, and yet there's the small screen-size difference, overall dimension difference, and CIR vs. FIR difference. I guess when I see two devices that are so similar, I expect them to be exactly the same. Random thought.
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07-23-2004, 07:06 PM
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Does anyone think that this device kinda looks like the Toshiba E805?
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07-23-2004, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Silver5
Does anyone think that this device kinda looks like the Toshiba E805?
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30% smaller than E805.
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07-23-2004, 07:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Kati Compton
You know, I think it's kinda weird that the Loox and the Asus are so close to being the same device in terms of look and capability, and yet there's the small screen-size difference, overall dimension difference, and CIR vs. FIR difference. I guess when I see two devices that are so similar, I expect them to be exactly the same. Random thought.
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Since Asus got a bit anal (and had the FCC take their a730 docs down) I can only say this from memory - the insides of the Loox 720 and the Asus a730 are different. That kind of squashes the - 'they're the same underneath' theory (which I subscribed to myself for a while) - though I agree that it is knid of a surprise that they aren't (especially when the Loox 610 was effectively the same hardware as the Asus a716 and the Fujitsu Loox v70 is effectively a rebadged Asus a730...!)
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Does anyone think that this device kinda looks like the Toshiba E805?
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That's one that has been said a lot - but the similarity is actually *very* superficial. The shape, colour, size and arrangement of buttons are very different when the two are seen side-by-side. It's the fact that they both use a similar(ish) rectangular button/d-pad arrangement that makes one think of the e800...
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07-23-2004, 08:01 PM
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Oracle
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Ever since the LOOX dumped the PocketPC phone I've had a hard time thinking that they are going to be anywhere close to bleeding edge again. There doesn't seem to be anything revolutionary about this device - sigh.
And why are they only targeted everyone BUT the US? That kinda sucks.
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07-23-2004, 08:08 PM
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There doesn't seem to be anything revolutionary about this device - sigh.
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I don't think we are going to see revolutionary in high end Pocket PCs any more. Evolutionary seems to be the watchword from FSC, Asus and HP.
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07-23-2004, 09:51 PM
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Oracle
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Good point... Still I'd like to see smaller, lighter, longer lasting and well connected... this does not seem to scream any of those. Yes it hase the QVGA - whoopee... I would like to see all of this (save the CF card) in something the size of an HP 1900 series device...
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07-23-2004, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by possmann
Yes it hase the QVGA - whoopee...
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Not easy to talk with newbie. :?
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07-23-2004, 11:15 PM
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The Loox 720 appears to have everything except the 624MHz processor - I'm guessing there might not be a lot of difference in real world speed between the 520 and the 624MHz processor - else Fujitsu would have put it in.
What do others think?
(A flip cover would be nice as well - to save the bulk of a case)
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