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Chi-Mei UMA Smartphone Passes FCC

Jun 15, 2006, 2:44 PM by (staff)

The Chi-Mei Smartphone which we previewed at CTIA this year has now passed FCC approval. The Debussey (DBS) is a quad-band GSM/EDGE candybar style smartphone running Windows Mobile Smartphone 2003 SE. It includes many of the latest software updates to the 2003 platform including Windows Media Player 10 and a file explorer. In addition to GSM, the DBS includes a Wi-Fi radio that can be used to make voice or data calls using UMA technology. The DBS also features Bluetooth, a 1.3 Megapixel camera and a Micro SD card slot. T-Mobile is expected to launch UMA this summer. They have not announced whether this will be one of the handsets they will offer.

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htrony

Jun 16, 2006, 12:15 PM

WM2003??

Why is this phone alerady outdated? The cingular 2125 came out with Windows Mobile 5 last year... i know they have to do testing and stuff, but this is pretty sad, this new version of windows Mobile isn't really new...

itsajoey

yea thats the only thing bad about the phone really is the wm2003 thats lameee every thing else on the phone looks fine to me... you ppl complain about every lil thing geez

alejandro