T-Mobile’s latest Windows Mobile smartphone, the Dash 3G by HTC, is set to land this week, but over at PhoneMag they’ve already been playing with the QWERTY candybar. Vincent has suffered a bout of nostalgia with the new handset, comparing it to the original Dash, but the new Dash 3G keyboard racks up the kudos as “one of the best if not the best” he’s used.
Unboxing video and hands-on demo after the cut
Dashboard Devices has announced that they will formally launch their Carputer at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January. Dashboard Device plans to market their Entertainment and Navigation for Vehicles (ENV) as a two-part system. The ENV-XC includes the CPU, graphics unit and other basic computing features, as well as a choice of head-ends, including the ENV-100.
Dash, makers of the highly-esteemed Dash Express GPS device, have announced they will be reorganizing their business model to concentrate on software and system licencing rather than hardware. In the process, fifty employees (out of a total workforce of around eighty) have been made redundant. The move follows Dash’s struggle to find sufficient buyers for the Express GPS to make it economically feasible; it seems that even with a massive sale at Amazon it wasn’t enough to compete in the current GPS race to the bottom line.
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