While this may not be all that practical, the Mio Leap K1 phone combines features we're growing accustomed to seeing in mobile devices--a quad-band cell phone and GPS--in a very unusual way. You see, on one side, the device has the cell phone with a 2-megapixel camera running on Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro. But on the other side is a ... continued »

The GPS smartphone Mio were showing back at CES earlier this year, which uses Qualcomm's new QST1100 combined app processor/GPS/cellular radio chip, has acquired a name and a likely release; called Lovebird, the touchscreen Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro handset has both GPS and A-GPS, quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and 2GB of ROM to store Mio's mapping data. With a Samsung 400MHz 2443 processor, 320 ... continued »

Device manufacturer Mio and plucky chipset maker Qualcomm have been doing a lot of shaking-hands recently, with the announcement that the former's Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) will be using the latter's QST1100 chip, which combines application processing, a GPS receiver and cellular connectivity into the one unit.  This opens the door for future Mio models - potentially traditional in-car GPS units ... continued »