The MWC 2008 - Live Report

2008 is the first year Eten appear on the showfloor, here in Barcelona. We had the chance to talk with the company’s CEO, who shed some light on the strategy E-TEN is going to use in the future. The company will remain focusing on Windows Mobile Professional GSM phones. Both Standard OS and CDMA are not in the plans for this year, but nothing is known for the future. Until now, the Eten phones were mainly professional devices, but with the V900 and M810, the consumer-oriented models are coming. This can be noticed by their design language – glossy surface, rounded corners and shiny buttons. A finger-friendly touch interface is in the works and we saw an early version of it deployed on a phone, but were not allowed to take pictures of it. Trust us – it looks good; it seems to go deeper in customization than HTC’s TouchFlo found in the Touch Dual (read its review). Once the new personalized interface is released, any current glofiish user will be able to take advantage of it.



V900 is a high-end model with digital TV support, for watching live broadcasted content directly on the phone. It supports DVB-H (the standard deployed across Europe), as well as DVB-T (standard digital TV broadcast), T-DMB and DAB (for digital radio also). The specifications are also suitable for high-class phone: 2.8” VGA 480x640 pixels display, 533MHz processor, global GSM and 3G HSDPA, WiFi and GPS. The V900 is probably the most well looking handset of the manufacturer, with flat front surface (the display is not concaved), and glossy black surface.




M810 is targeted as a phone for chatters, bloggers ,etc. It has side-sliding QWERTY keyboard which is on a flat surface, in order to keep the design slim. It also looks very well as the V900 but is in lighter color.