CES: Spotted, First Possible Android Smartphone

A Chinese OEM was showing off a Phone at CES 2008 that will be running Android by March.

Here is what PCMag said about the specs of the Phone:

The GW4 (aka the PDA Dual Net Phone) is a
slab-style smart phone with a touch screen and QWERTY keyboard, that
was running a version of MontaVista Linux 2.6 when we saw it at the
event. But according to Wistron spokeswoman Molly Lin, the GW4 will be
running Android by March, when Wistron will start selling it to more
prominent firms for branding. As a manufacturing house, Wistron has
made desktop and laptop PCs for Dell, HP, IBM and other top brands.

The GW4 we saw had surprisingly low specs, but that's a testament to
the efficiency of Linux, Wistron execs said. The GW4 is based on a TI
OMAP 1710 chipset with a 216-MHz processor and only 64 MB of program
memory, yet the model we saw ran the Opera Web browser, played video
and flipped between a range of Web widget applications like weather and
stocks. The user interface was very responsive.
The phone will come in two tri-band GSM/GPRS versions, one for the U.S.
and one for Europe and Asia. The very slow cellular GPRS (not EDGE)
network will be complemented by 802.11g Wi-Fi with a built-in SIP VOIP
client for Internet calling. A higher-speed 3G version will come out by
the end of 2008. The GW4 also has a 2.5-inch, 320x240 touch screen and
2-megapixel camera.

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