Gigabyte GSmart Reveals First Android Phone

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The Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer Gigabyte has teased their first foray into the world of Android Smartphones.  The Gigabyte GSmart Android Smartphone will run Android 1.6 and will see its first shipments in Russia next month.

With their own android smartphone, Gigabyte will join a blizzard of Android device releases in 2010.  Beyond the Motorolas, the HTCs and the Dells of the world, Gigabyte represents a growing number of lower tier mobile manufacturers whose names few of us may recognize.  Their GSmart Android Smartphone provides much of the same functionality of the T-Mobile MyTouch 3g, as it includes a touchscreen and a trackball but no hardware keyboard.  The benefit that the Gigabyte GSmart Android Smartphone will offer is that is is both unlocked and cheap, selling for $300 after conversion from Russian Rubles.

The Gigabyte GSmart Android Smartphone has the standard functionality that smartphone users desire.  It features a 2.8-inch touchscreen display, a trackball, an accelerometer, GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity, WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth 2.0.  The GSmart Android phone will also include an auto-focus 2.0MP digital camera, a 3.5mm audio jack, 256MB RAM, 512MB storage and expanded MicroSD card support.  Hey, that 3.5mm audio jack makes this one slightly cooler than this writer’s T-mobile G1…