Sexy new smartphones from O2 called ‘Flame’ have just been ordered and we should see them sometime in 2007 over here in the UK. The new smart phones from O2 have GPS and 3G or should we say 3.5G (not sure about this 3.5G). The new Flame handset is on its way to the O2 range, the company has ordered 100,000 new slider handsets with Taiwan’s Arima Corporation.

The O2 Flame Smartphone is sold in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific markets but we should see them soon enough, the Flame has a 3.6 display screen with features such as wi-fi, NVIDIA GoForce 5500 graphics chip, 520MHz Intel processor, 2GB of on-board memory.

O2 XDA Flame Specifications —
– UMTS / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900
– 3.6 TFT touchscreen – 480 x 640 pixels – 65K colours
– MP3 & Polyphonic (64 channels) Ringtones
– Handwriting recognition
– Vibration
– Photo call
– 128 MB RAM
– microSD (TransFlash)
– 2 GB ROM
– Intel XScale PXA 270, 520 MHz processor
– miniUSB
– Bluetooth v1.2
– WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
– GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
– 3G 384 kbps
– Infrared port
– Email, SMS, MMS, Instant Messaging
– Games
– Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC Operating System
– HTML (PocketIE), WAP 2.0/xHTML
– 2 MP Camera with 1600×1200 pixels, flash, video plus secondary VGA video call camera
– Java MIDP 2.0
– Video/audio album, Built-in handsfree, Voice memo, Video call & TV-Out
– FM Radio with RDS
– MP3/AAC player
– Pocket Office(Word, Excel, Outlook)
– Up to 200 hours standby
– Up to 6 hours talk time
– 126 x 74 x 17.5 mm
– 190 grams

The O2 Flame does NOT have — HSCSD or EDGE

The Flame currently retails for almost £500 ($1000) (NON CONTRACT)

Source — Digitimes