Dallab launches a familiar looking DX8 Pocket PC phone

After receiving the prestigious “First local brand PDA phone” award from The Malaysia Book of Records for their DP900 Pocket PC phone, Dallab is releasing the good looking DX8 as a follow up. This time they're going for a slightly more prestigious record, "World's smallest Pocket PC phone," and they almost manage to succeed. The unit is fairly small, but so is its identical twin, AXIA's A308. All the specs are the same as well, including the 2.2-inch QVGA touch screen LCD, EDGE data, 1.3 megapixel camera, WiFi, and miniSD slot. In fact, it's really hard to see what, if anything, Dallab does differently with their version of this obviously OEMed handset. Oh well, better luck next time.

[Via Pocket PC Thoughts]

[Rollins Posted Mar 29th 2006 7:28PM]

We don't condemn companies for OEM'ing HTC's phones, what's up with the complaints here? I'd personally like it if someone in the U.S. OEM'd that phone.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 30th 2006 11:34AM]

WHO THE F CARES IF ITS COPIED?! Just get me any version of the world's-smallest-WM5 smartphone on Verizon and I won't give one rat's tail who designed the danged thing or what other Asian company makes the exact same phone. But since that will never happen, I guess its ok to moan about look-alikes.

Stupid Verizon. Stupid contracts.