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Live from CeBIT 2007 : audio interview with GIGA-BYTE Communications + short review of gSmart t600 and gSmart q60 March 16, 2007 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. What if somebody would tell you that you can receive in your mobile phone the same terrestrial digital TV signal as your huge plasma TV can? That you don't have to pay any monthly fees for so called "mobile TV service"!? This is what gSmart t600 can do - receive DVB-T (in UK called "FreeView") directly to the mobile phone. On top of that GIGA-BYTE Communications has announced gSmart q60, that apart from the genuine scroll-wheel and QWERTY keyboard for single-handed usage, has HSDPA and Wi-Fi (both as standard) and also GPS and mobile TV support (optionally). Here we present audio interview with Clare Fan and Jack Lu: 
... from GIGA-BYTE Communications Taiwan! To listen to the interview click HERE and then download MP3 file or listen from the embedded Flash player there! * * * * * Here are some highlights from the interview and from other talks with employees of GIGA-BYTE Communications:
Below you can see photos of gSmart q60 and gSmart t600 with some explanations. q60 feels like Treo smartphone - due to QWERTY keyboard for single-handed usage: 
... but additionally offers, genuine scroll wheel, HSDPA and Wi-Fi as standard! Not to mention that mobile operators or major distributors can order such options as mobile TV reception (but not DVB-T) and built-in GPS. We have been testing the scroll wheel in big detail: 
... and it works properly - just like in RIM BlackBerry devices - as expected. On the back of the q60 one can find camera for photo taking (another camera for video calling is in the front, see photo above): 
The quality of TV reception was amazingly good: 
... not just because of good DVB-T tuner that is embedded in t600 but also due to the fact that t600 has VGA resolution (640x480)! In other words: live TV is of perfect quality and no pixelation or lower quality effects (like these ones when you load JPG file with lower compression) occur. The q60 is bigger than t600: 
.. but it may be due to the fact that q60 offers also full 3G, including HSDPA. Buttons on the front of q60 have nice blue-ish glow: 
Here a TV channel from Austria was selected: 
... but obviously was not getting any reception in Hannover (that is in Germany, not Austria and there is no ORF2 in Hannover as you can see here). However one can notice here the on-screen displaying of additional information, such as battery status, or GSM signal reception! Finally this cable: 
... will be included with t600. It offers ability to watch the TV received by t600 on some external display, TV or projector. If you are visting CeBIT 2007, then please visit stand of GIGA-BYTE Communications in hall 26, booth C67 (3)! Both q60 and t600 are on display at this stand plus several employees of GIGA-BYTE Communications are ready to answer your questions. Furthermore it is good to see these phones in person - so that you could order them online later with certainty about how they look and feel in reality.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 5 Comments ]
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