Sorry, I know that was a seriously bad attempt at a pun…but it was no worse than the title he gave his review of the E-Ten 700 Glofiish Pocket PC Phone with GPS over on pocketnow.com. ;-)

Chris starts his review by saying, “I’ve had a couple different E-TEN Pocket PC Phones.  My first experience, with the M500 was rather disappointing.  You can see my New Equipment Blogs with the M500 here: (Day 00, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4).  The radio just would NOT hold a call on the Cingular/ATT 850MHz band. When I was approached with the E-TEN G500 review, I was a bit cautious.  E-TEN products are nice, but I was still smarting from my M500 experience That device wasn’t bad, but still had trouble holding calls in Nashville, TN.  Today, kids, it’s the brand, spankin’ new E-TEN Glowfiish M700. What kind of gadgety goodness has E-TEN bundled up in the M700 for us?  Does it shine or glimmer any better than the other two devices I’ve looked at?  Let’s take a look and find out!”

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All bad pun attempts aside, Chris puts this embedded GPS Pocket PC through it’s paces, and his results were somewhat…disappointing.

I guess after reading through his review, I was left with the sense that I would expect more than was delivered for the device’s $640 price. Evidently Chris did too, as he says “I really want to like E-TEN’s products. I really do. The M700 really feels cheap and flimsy. The entire body is plastic, and for the price, it could have been, should have been encased in metal. It would be nice if E-TEN looked into that. The screen is very, very small for as large as the case is, and it really should be much larger.  A 2.8″ screen on a device as big as it is seems like a waste of real estate.”

I’ll leave it to you to decide after reading the rest of Chris’ review whether the Gofiish should come home with you, or if it would be best to leave this fiish floating in the pond. :groan: