New Symbian devices from Motorola, BenQ and... Mitsubishi

Lots of announcement in CeBit this year for Symbian, and Motorola has just joined the club with the presentation of its A920 device (here on left). A full 3G / 3 band GSM / GPRS phone with SymbianOS 7and a big 208 x 320 color LCD. The GUI platform is unknown yet even if the hardware platform seems compatible with UIQ. Some screenshots found there show similarities with UIQ and Quartz. But probably heavily tweaked by Motorola.

The phone has a 5-way round cursor and two keys on the top of the screen so that, when hold in landscape position, can be use as a small game console. It supports audio / video record and playback but also video conferencing

 
 
Another announcement, also based on the SymbianOS 7 but certainly use the UIQ platform, came from BenQ yesterday with its P30 mobile (here on right). Same 65K color screen, a full VGA camera, GSM/GPRS compatibility, a SD card slot and Bluetooth support. It is announced for Q3 2003.

 
 
 
Finally, Mitsubishi is also showing a future mobile concept which is also based on SymbianOS 7: this phone supportshas a QVGA screen, a megapixel camera and has Wireless Lan capabilities so that it can connect to any other equipment in your home/office. If you are properly equipped, you will be able to look at the picture or video you take directly on your TV equipment rather than on the (not so small) phone screen... Symbian has also announced that Mitsubishi has just taken a license for Symbian OS (cf here).