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Man, we hope this is true. Switzerland’s Zenum has been talking up its gorgeous “Opus Operis” concept Pocket PC for a while now — but as is too often the case, the alleged release date came and went with no product in sight. Zenum’s site has been reborn recently, though, suggesting that the company is still on track to eventually offer the QWERTY device, this time with a spring ‘07 launch. Though the site shows Windows Mobile 5 as the platform of choice, we trust Zenum will have the wisdom to switch over to 6 by the time the Opus gets out the door. Other specs should include 128MB ROM, 64MB RAM, 2 megapixel cam, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 1.2, and a tri-band GSM radio (no 850MHz, apparently) atop a 200MHz OMAP750. We’d love to see a successful launch on this one, folks, but we’d gladly wait a few weeks if you could squeeze some quadband action in there. Oh, and Windows Mobile 6, while you’re at it, eh?

[Thanks, Ramesh]

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If you’re in Germany this week and have a chance to hit the CeBIT show, you may be able to peep the new BlueBird BM-500 WM Smartphone (yes, it’s Windows Mobile 5-based). This bar handset — part of the PIDION line — features a rather nice 2.8 inch touch-screen, EV-DO data speeds, built-in 802.11b WiFi, Bluetooth, the now-standard 1.3 megapixel cam and the less-often used miniSD card slot. Changes we’d make? Get microSD in there and dump the miniSD, upgrade that cam to 2 megapixels and get WM6 in there. Seriously — WM5? The older BM-200 and BM-300 had this way back when. Come on now; WM5 is so January 2007.

[Via Wired.com]

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