Gigabyte’s first GSmart Android phone gets pictured

We’ve recently told you that Gigabyte might make Android smartphones, and it looks like the Taiwanese company already has a handset based on Google’s open source OS.

The Gigabyte Android smartphone doesn’t have a name yet, but it’s part of the GSmart series – which, until now, included only Windows Mobile devices.

The new handset runs Android 1.6, it has a trackball and measures 103 x 54 x 13.4 millimeters. Mobile-review has some photos of the device:

The phone’s specs include:

• GSM / GPRS / EDGE connectivity
• 2.8 QVGA touchscreen display
• Trackball
• G-sensor (accelerometer)
• Wi-Fi
• GPS
• Bluetooth 2.0
• 3.5 mm audio jack
• 2MP autofocus camera
• Qualcomm ESM7225 528 MHz CPU
• 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM
• MicroSD card support
• 1,500 mAh battery

The Gigabyte GSmart Android phone should be released in Russia next month (February). It’s said that its price will be of only 9,000 RUB ($300 or €212).

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Posted on 19 Jan 10 - Filed in Android, Gigabyte - Comments - Written by ilinca

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