E-Ten's X800 gets the nod from the FCC

E-Ten's glofiish X800 has received recognition for doing its job in every band -- both GSM and HSDPA -- VGA-style. The X800 will mark the first in a series -- apparently four will be released this year -- in E-Ten's collaboration with Arima, and if this is a hint of what's to come, we're positively stoked for the closing months of this year. Like the Asus P750 hinted at a few days ago, it seems our manufacturing friends are finally catching on that all-flavored GSM and HSDPA sets are where it's at. Now if they could just turf out a similarly svelte set with QWERTY, we'd not even think of complaining.

[Via Phonescoop]

[shaun @ Jul 31st 2007 12:30PM]

I can't put my finger on why but that is one nice looking phone

[Michael La Framboise @ Jul 31st 2007 1:08PM]

Well, for one its shiny - that alone adds 10 charisma points. Then the orange GUI doesn't look too shabby either - of course minus the ugly scrollbar on the side which looks like it came from Windows 3.1...

[E71 @ Jul 31st 2007 2:45PM]

Everything about this phone looks good except for the red ring around the secondary camera.

Too bad by the time it's out, the only advantage it'll have over HTC's Kaiser is a VGA screen.

[joe23521 @ Jul 31st 2007 12:58PM]

Will this be available in the US at any point?

[Michael La Framboise @ Jul 31st 2007 1:19PM]

I would imagine so if they're bothering w/ getting it approved by FCC :/

[websyndicate @ Jul 31st 2007 1:38PM]

dude has some huge hands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!oh yea cool phone but I already have the iPhone

[Ellianth @ Jul 31st 2007 2:21PM]

Here have a cookie.

I always liked the way this phone looked :). If it's cheap (like me) I'll get one.

[RikF @ Jul 31st 2007 2:14PM]

If they can add that qwerty goodness this could so easily pull me away from the long awaited Kaiser...

[Akiosarin @ Jul 31st 2007 3:05PM]

if things touch screen, I might just pick one up *looks around*

[JC @ Jul 31st 2007 3:13PM]

The North American market might not know them yet, but Eten makes great phones. I was using my M600 happily until I dropped it and broke the microphone. :(

My next PDA phone will probably also be a Glofiish.

[spacegravity4me @ Jul 31st 2007 5:37PM]

unless it's got at least 1 gig of internal storage i won't be getting it. I'm sorry but if you've ever tried to record a long video or audio recording with a windows mobile device and have that video/audio be stored onto a storage card you know that after a fair amount of time the whole thing poops out and you're stuck waiting for it to store everything and your recording stops. That's what has happened to me multiple times. I love sd cards but after having them corrupted multiple times etc I would rather just have some built in storage that is worth something. I don't care if it's the newest micro nano super small storage card, odds are it's going to suck in some way. So call me when they have some balls and give me a full touch pda style phone that has at least a gig in it that isn't the iphone. eh...

[l3it3r @ Jul 31st 2007 5:54PM]

I'll stick to my HTC Hermes for now, thanks. QWERTY keyboard, GSM, HSPDA, UMTS, BT2.1, WiFi b/g, etc... I'm pretty happy w/it ;)

[Aaron @ Jul 31st 2007 8:44PM]

Ooh, that thing looks great. I really like it. I wish we knew the price, I've love to have one.

[Lith @ Aug 1st 2007 5:21AM]

I've got an x500 which is the model this x800 will be replacing. It is indeed an awesome phone but the only downsides for me are lack of 3g data, a lack of support for micro sdhc and i'm not too keen on the direction pad.

the x800 seems to have the 3g and d-pad sorted, sdhc we'll find out later

one very important thing about the x500 tho, they managed to make a very very stable windows mobile package, in the 8months i've owned it its only crashed 3 times which compared to my previous smartphones is amazing. If they continue that then this is the phone to get.

The engadget blurb seems to miss out all the stuff about built in GPS, wifi, bluetooth and pretty much every type of phone radio while having a pretty reasonable battery life.

Also in this generation there is a version with a slide out keyboard... it'd be a safe bet that one of the other 4 will have a keyboard as well.

[RichR @ Nov 20th 2007 9:15PM]

Am I reading this right? The GPS date updater is NOT supported in the US? Thats means the GPS will not work in the US?