K-Touch V958

Baseline Teardown Report

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Product Description

K-Touch is the brand name used by Tianyu a sucessful manufacturer of cell phones in the Chinese local market. Its K-Touch V958 is one of the first mobile devices to provide CMMB (China Mobile Media Broadcasting) support, which enables the user to watch television on a cell phone. The V958 comes with a 2.8” TFT resistive touch screen. The size of the screen is relatively large compared to other devices with a physical keypad. The directional navigation pad is innovatively moved to the right side of the number pad, creating a more ergonomic design. This device supports dual band GSM, GPRS and WAP 2.0. Additional features include Bluetooth with A2DP, multimedia playback, Java, 2.0 MP camera, video capturing, voice recording etc. The built-in loudspeaker makes mobile TV feature more realistic along the high resolution 320 x 240 TFT screen. Another notable feature is its anti-theft capability, which will send an SMS to a user-defined number if a new SIM card is inserted.

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