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New UIQ Phone Arima U300
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Posted by: langdona

Symbian have announced details of a new Arima UIQ phone the U300.

London, UK – September 30, 2004 – Arima Group, a leading manufacturer of mobile handheld devices, notebook PCs and opto-electronics in Taiwan, announced today that it will be demonstrating the company’s ODM capabilities by displaying its latest smartphone, the U300, to selected customers at Symbian Expo on October 5 and 6 in London, UK. Symbian Expo – the smartphone show – is the only tradeshow dedicated to every aspect of the smartphone industry.

Being one of the leading ODM suppliers of GSM/GPRS handheld devices, the Arima Group is devoted to the development of a series of market driven, advanced smartphones to sell to the world’s leading mobile phone companies and mobile network service providers. With the introduction of the U300 to the market, Arima proves its multimedia and wireless state-of-the-art technologies, including sliding keypad, rotating camera, touch panel LCD, PC synchronization, FM radio, and audio / video player, as well as the strong capabilities of its R&D team. Moreover, the U300 is not only a milestone in Arima’s smartphone advancement, but also a remarkable victory in the mobile technology ODM arena.

Based on Symbian OS, the market leading operating system for smartphones adopted by the world’s leading handset manufacturers, and the UIQ user interface platform licensed from UIQ Technology, the U300 integrates high end mobile technologies with a sleek, smart, and stylish design. The rotating 1.3 mega pixel camera with 4x digital zoom and flash, sliding keypad, and its 2.66 inch 65,000 color Transflective TFT touch panel LCD screen, along with SyncML for PC synchronization via built-in Bluetooth connectivity, all enable the U300 to lead the ever changing market trends and to efficiently assist its end users in the fast paced business world.

Arima
“We are very excited about the initial exposure of the U300 at Symbian Expo, where almost every company involved in the smartphone market will be networking and doing business. The successful innovation of the U300 not only proves to the industry our outstanding ODM capability, but also serves as an ideal jump start for us to enter the smartphone ODM market,” said Stephen Lee, CEO, Arima Group.

Network: GSM Tri-band 900/1800/1900 MHz
UI: UIQ 2.1
Enabling technologies: Symbian OS v7.0, Java: J2ME / MIDP 2.0 supported
Messaging: SMS, MMS, EMS, instant messaging
Dimensions:
106x55.7x19 mm (24mm with Keypad)
Weight: 120g
Display:
2.66” TFT LCD, touch screen
Color Depth:
65K colors
Keypad: 25 physical keys
Integrated camera 1.3M CMOS, 4 x digital zoom, 30 frames per sec, LED Flash
MPEG-4 Camcorder/DSC
Games: 3 creative games
Additional features:
Calendar, stopwatch, time countdown
Browsing: WAP 2.0
Security: SSL, WTLS, TLS
Connectivity:
Bluetooth v1.1
Synchronization: SyncML
Memory: 16Mb SDRAM, 32Mb Nor Flash

Posted by: WereSHARK

I wonder if this U300 is different from the Smartphone model on their website: http://www.arima.com.tw/pim/p83-2.jpg

The specs on their new smartphone look good, too bad the phone looks awkward, but then again i'm biased toward my SE P910i.

On the flipside, I like Arima's products... for those that didn't know they are the parent manufacturers of the Voodoo ENVY m:860 series laptops as well as the Gateway/ eMachines M68XX series laptops, which I also am quite biased towards, as I supercharged my M6809 (www.wereshark.com/m6805/).

Check out Arima at www.arima.com.tw, if you want to know more. Been there and seen that.

Posted by: AdmiralAK

interesting phone. I like the slide down feature and the FM radio, but no quadband, no EDGE, no UMTS... sad

Posted by: nemik

wait arima...is that who designed the z200 for SE?

they watered that phone down SO bad, i don't think i'd ever get a UIQ one from them.

Posted by: stampid

it's too big
looks like a GI JOE phone or something

Posted by: kingstu

I like it a lot, especially the 1 megapixel camera and can't wait for it to be released

Posted by: mobilezen

Could this be a sign of things to come for the next P series phone from Se?

Posted by: kingstu

Since it's spec's don't say, what type of removeable storage is it? SDIO or just SD would be a great addition.

Posted by: ][ron]V[aiden

looks awkward IMO

Posted by: P888

Quote:

Originally posted by stampid
it's too big
looks like a GI JOE phone or something

It is supposedly more compact than a P9x0