GSmart announces Android device

Being the clever clogs that I am, anyone that caught the Mobiletech Addicts special podcast at the beginning of the year may recall that I predicted that we would see Gigabyte G-Smart release some Android powered devices this year. Well sooner than expected we’ve already seen an announcement from Gigabyte about exactly that! 🙂

The G-Smart Android Phone

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 (!), has a trackball and measures 103 x 54 x 13.4mm

G-Smart android phone specification:

• 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
• 1500 mAh battery

We’ve reviewed most of G-Smart’s handsets in the past so I hope to be able to get my hands on one of these for review soon too! 🙂

Shame it’s only Android 1.6 though!

Posted by: Matt