Flamin' Hot: O2 XDA Flame

O2 has just announced the O2 Flame
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This beast of a device boast very impressive specs inlcuding:

Intel Xscale(R) PXA 270 processor at 520 Mhz.
2.0 Mega Pixel camera
NVIDIA(R) GoForce(R) 5500 GPU
Wireless LAN 802.11b+g
SRS Mobile HD surround sound
USB On-The-Go
2 GB Flash ROM + 64 MB RAM [although the screen shows something closer to 128Mb RAM]
TV out connector
Windows Mobile 5 (so far)
Bluetooth
Micro SD expansion slot
3G - Tri band phone
Second camera for video chatting
Built-in flash for the main camera
The battery power is not final yet (the demo one had 1600 mA)
Built-in FM tuner
Business card reader (through camera)
Infrared (does any one still use this?

More info and mouthwatering pics on DinarSoft's coverage of GITEX

From the comparison shots it looks like a huge device, of course with all the goodies you get this is understandable. This will be probably out by Q2 2007. Not really on my shortlist of devices at the moment as it doesn't have a hardware keyboard but it's nice to see O2 moving on after parting ways with long time supplier HTC. It would be nice to see how HTC plans to answer the Flame...

If I were HTC I'd come out with something called HTC Ice hehehe then make it have better specs like adding a QWERTY keyboard and GPS. Oh and slapping on a SDHC slot for even higher memory expansion. That would surely piss-off O2 hahahaha!

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