Fujitsu-Siemens is apparently gearing up to hop on the Blackberry-clone bandwagon, following Motorola's Q, Nokia's E61, HP's iPaq hw6500 series and Palm's Treo family with a keyboard-equipped smart phone of its own in Q3.

According to a report on Dutch-language website PocketInfo, the company's Pocket Loox T830 and T810 will ship on 3 July and 15 July, respectively. The difference between the two models: the T830 sports a two-megapixel digicam.

The smart phones also feature 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0, and can connect to GSM/GPRS and 3G networks. Like Fujitsu-Siemens' past Pocket Loox PDAs, the new handsets run Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS. There will be 128MB of ROM and 64MB of RAM on board. It's also suggested that, like HP's hw6500 smart phones, the Fujitsu-Siemens models will sport integrated GPS reception.

The site reckons the devices are due to be announced at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona next month - a fair bet, given the mobile phone industry's great and good will be gathering there to announce the year's new handsets. ®

Related stories

• Verizon claims Motorola Q exclusive (18 May 2006)
• Motorola changes mind on Q ship date (29 March 2006)
• CeBIT Fujitsu Siemens dangles wireless lappy for €1 (9 March 2006)
• 3GSM Fujitsu Siemens confirms €700 3G PDA phone (13 February 2006)
• Fujitsu Siemens 3G PDA phone 3GSM debut confirmed (8 February 2006)
• Compal to fab Fujitsu-Siemens' 3G handhelds (6 February 2006)
• HP confirms iPaq hw6910 - again (3 February 2006)
• Motorola Q to miss Q1 ship deadline? (3 February 2006)
• Palm eyes Ides of March for Treo 800p availability? (2 February 2006)
• Navicore updates Symbian smart-phone GPS navigation pack (25 January 2006)
• Nokia readies Bluetooth 2.0 clamshell phone (16 January 2006)
• HP readying compact Wi-Fi PDA phone? (16 January 2006)
• CES 2006: top ten gadgets (12 January 2006)
• Palm pledges three new smart phones in 2006 (21 December 2005)
• HP iPaq handset hyped on web (12 December 2005)
• MS punts 'sub-$300 PDA phone' plan (9 December 2005)
• Nokia updates 9300 smart phone with Wi-Fi (29 November 2005)
• Exclusive HTC confirms HSDPA 3G handsets will ship H2 2006 (25 November 2005)
• Euro phone shipments jumped 16% in Q3 (23 November 2005)
• Symbian touts 131% jump in smart-phone shipments (16 November 2005)