Saygus VPhone finally wins approval from Verizon, not so high-end anymore

Hey, you folks remember the VPhone ? Honestly, we had forgotten about it too. The debut handset from Saygus first started making the rounds in late 2009 sporting, what were on the time, high-end features, like a front facing camera and a 624MHz processor . Well, times have changed and now that the Android-powered phone has finally won approval through Verizon’s open development initiative it’s, at best, decidedly mid-range. While the 256MB of RAM and chunky, sliding QWERTY remain, the VPhone has received some minor upgrades on its journey to important Red — that XScale core have been bumped to a seemingly arbitrary 806MHz and Donut was swapped for Froyo or Gingerbread. The only thing that the relative unknown still has going for that’s hacker friendly features, including an unlocked bootloader and the power to run custom ROMs from an SD card. Sadly, there’s still no word on an exact release date or price, but a minimum of we all know Saygus hasn’t completely fallen off the face of the Earth.

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