Nurhisham Hussein
01-22-2007, 08:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=3550' target='_blank'>http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=3550</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Well, Inventec's latest Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition, which just received the FCC approval, isn't cute at all but it seems to be smart. At least it's sporting a feature-set I haven't seen so far: an inbuilt bar code/QR code scanner and a slide out thumb keyboard in one device. Therefore I expect we will see this device in vertical markets only, and not being released for consumers."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/hisham-20070122-inventec_opticon1.jpg" /><br /><br />Arne at theunwired.net has picked up on FCC documents of a new WM5 phone. Specs of Inventec's device are still unclear, apart from WM5, BT, WiFi, and triband/quadband GSM/GPRS. The bar code scanner is an interesting addition, and marks this as a business device rather than consumer - and presumably with a price to match. The Opticon does mark the introduction of the sliding keyboard to vertical markets, and it'll be interesting to see what the final hardware specifications will be.