Dallab, the New Kid on the Smartphone Block, Hits the Ground Running with a Mini Pocket PC Phone

Dallab touts itself as the first truly Malaysian owned brand in the wireless communication market.  As they’re a small, new company (founded on July 28, 2002) that’s taking on big seasoned brands like Palm, they’d have to make a big splash to be able to get noticed.  We think, by and large, this interesting new product’s not a bad way to start.

The just-announced Dallab DX8 is far smaller and less hefty than the Treos it competes against – just 4.4″ long by 1.9″ wide and 0.8″ thick.  As a matter of fact the company claims it’s the world’s smallest smartphone.  It’s chockfull of features despite its minuscule size; buyers get Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PCs, an Intel PXA272 CPU processor running at 416 Mhz, a numeric keypad, a 2.2″ QVGA touchscreen display, a 1.3-megapixel camera, WAV/WMA/MP3 support, Bluetooth 1.2, Wi-Fi, a mini-SD card slot, and quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE.  (It looks a little like Nokia’s old 8810 cellphone, we think, but the Dallab stylists could’ve picked a worse model to copy.)

No word yet if the DX8’s to be released Stateside, but we hear you can get a non-SIMlocked version for around $600 (and just maybe, if demand’s big enough, some enterprising people will conspire to bring it over).  Not a bad price for what’s looking like one heck of a smartphone.
Dallab touts itself as the first truly Malaysian owned brand in the wireless communication market.  As they’re a small, new company (founded on July 28, 2002) that’s taking on big seasoned brands like Palm, they’d have to make a big splash to be able to get noticed.  We think, by and large, this interesting new product’s not a bad way to start.

The just-announced Dallab DX8 is far smaller and less hefty than the Treos it competes against – just 4.4″ long by 1.9″ wide and 0.8″ thick.  As a matter of fact the company claims it’s the world’s smallest smartphone.  It’s chockfull of features despite its minuscule size; buyers get Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PCs, an Intel PXA272 CPU processor running at 416 Mhz, a numeric keypad, a 2.2″ QVGA touchscreen display, a 1.3-megapixel camera, WAV/WMA/MP3 support, Bluetooth 1.2, Wi-Fi, a mini-SD card slot, and quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE.  (It looks a little like Nokia’s old 8810 cellphone, we think, but the Dallab stylists could’ve picked a worse model to copy.)

No word yet if the DX8’s to be released Stateside, but we hear you can get a non-SIMlocked version for around $600 (and just maybe, if demand’s big enough, some enterprising people will conspire to bring it over).  Not a bad price for what’s looking like one heck of a smartphone.