Mio Lovebird confirmed: GPS-centric WM6.1 smartphone

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 x 240 QVGA display and 64MB ROM, the Lovebird doesn’t look to be an especially high-end device, but the promise of Dash GPS-style instant traffic updates over the cellular network should impress plenty of people. Mio are claiming up to 5hrs of talktime, but there’s no suggestion of battery life when navigating.
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