MWg's Atom V slated for early March release
It's been a while since the last Atom handheld was made available in Asia. The O2 Atom Life was announced more than a year ago in January 2007.
Thus, we were looking forward to today's launch of the Atom V, MWg's first handheld product release since the company was formed late last year to take over O2's device business in the region. (Note: The "V" in Atom V stands for the Roman numeral 5, not the alphabet V. According to MWg, Atom V is the fifth Atom product, after the original Atom, Atom Pure, Atom Exec and Atom Life.)
The Atom V, which will retail for S$998 in Singapore, offers a similar feature set as the Atom Life. There will be HSDPA, wireless LAN, quadband GSM and Bluetooth, as well as a 2-megapixel camera and QVGA touchscreen display. What's new on the Atom V will be an integrated GPS, a slimmer sub-15mm profile and new, sleek design. (Read our first take on the Atom V here.)
According to MWg's press release, there will be three to six new products planned for 2008, including the Zinc II which will be due out in the second quarter of this year. The Atom V is expected to be available in the rest of Asia-Pacific markets between mid-March and mid-April.
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A Back to the Future fan, Reuben Lee secretly hopes the flux capacitor works so he can go back in time to tell the younger him to invest in Google shares. This former engineering graduate stumbled from varsity straight into games and tech writing just for the fun at CNET Asia. He found it so much fun, he stayed on for the next 11 years. You can also catch this Senior Editor for chats on all things Japan, the manga One Piece, Star Wars, Liverpool and football, and racing games.
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