General Mobile DSTL1 Android Phone

Word is out that General Mobile will be showing off the first dual-SIM Android phone at next month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Pictures of the phone, dubbed the DSTL1, are available online, though Android users will note that the button configuration isn’t too suited for Android, as you’d need 5 hardware buttons (home, back, menu, call send, call end) to get the phone to work properly. General Mobile has said that the front of the phone will be changed in order to accommodate Google’s Android, though it didn’t mention if such changes included the screen’s 400 x 240 pixel resolution. If the Kogan Agora’s 320 x 240 pixel display wasn’t enough for Android apps, this might not fare any better, though we’ll just have to believe that General Mobile knows what it’s doing. The phone is expected to ship in Q3 of 2009. Specifications of the phone (as of now) include:

• Dual-SIM cards with dual-Standby mode
• 624MHz Marvell PXA 310 processor
• Tri-band GSM/EDGE support (900/1800/1900MHz)
• 3-inch WQVGA touchscreen display, 260k colors
• 802.11b/g Wi-Fi support
• Bluetooth
• 135g (4.75oz), 112 x 54 x 16mm (4.4 x 2.1 x .6 inches)
• 5 megapixel autofocus camera with flash (made by Sharp)