The Vibo T588 is a touchscreen

Touchscreen

A touchscreen is an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. The term generally refers to touching the display of the device with a finger or hand. Touchscreens can also sense other passive objects, such as a stylus...

 mobile phone

Mobile phone

A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...

 released for the Vibo

VIBO

Vibo Telecom Inc. is a 3G mobile network operator in Taiwan. The unit of its major operations is in the capital city of Taiwan, Taipei. Vibo is a subsidiary of the Kinpo group. Vibo's network is UMTS based in the 2.1 GHz band. They were awarded a licence in February 2002, and went live on 1...

 network in Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

 on 15 October 2010, at a price of TWD 1,990 when sold with a subscription, TWD 10,000 without a subscription. The slogan

Slogan

A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commercial, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. The word slogan is derived from slogorn which was an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm . Slogans vary from the written and the...

 used for the phone is Touch Your Life.

Hardware

• Frequency bands: WCDMA (UMTS) 850/2100 MHz, GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• Screen size: 2.8 in.
• Screen resolution: QVGA (240 x 320 pixels)
• Weight: 95g
• Size: 57 x 103 x 11 mm
• Input devices: Touchscreen with haptic feedback, 3 keys for navigation, 3 side keys for camera and volume
• Battery: 1000 mAh Li Ion
• Talk time: 3.5 hrs.
• Standby time: up to 300 hrs.
• Memory: up to 8 GB microSD
• Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP stereo sound
• FM radio
  FM broadcasting
  FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...
  
  , no RDS
• 2.0 megapixel
  Pixel
  In digital imaging, a pixel, or pel, is a single point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable screen element in a display device; it is the smallest unit of picture that can be represented or controlled....
  
   camera

Software

The phone includes the following standard applications and features:

• Browser: Obigo
  Obigo Browser
  Obigo Browser is a WEB/WAP browser for mobile phones, smartphones and other Mobile Internet Devices developed by the Obigo company. Obigo browser can run on various mobile platforms such as Windows Mobile, S60 and BREW.-History:...
  
   7.0, HTML and WAP
• Address book with photos
• E-mail, including support for Gmail
  Gmail
  Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google. Users may access Gmail as secure webmail, as well via POP3 or IMAP protocols. Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007, though...
  
  , Hotmail
  Hotmail
  Windows Live Hotmail, formerly known as MSN Hotmail and commonly referred to simply as Hotmail, is a free web-based email service operated by Microsoft as part of its Windows Live group. It was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and launched in July 1996 as "HoTMaiL". It was one of the first...
  
  , and Yahoo mail
• Appointment calendar
• Task manager
• Music player with playlists and album art
• Video player
• Weather forecasts from yr.no
  Yr.no
  yr.no is a Norwegian website for weather forecasting and other meteorological information. The site is a joint responsibility of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. The name yr is Norwegian for drizzle. A second meaning is giddy.The website offers...
  
  
• RSS
  RSS
  -Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...
  
   reader
• Foreign currency converter with automated rate updates
• Chinese handwriting recognition
  Handwriting recognition
  Handwriting recognition is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwritten input from sources such as paper documents, photographs, touch-screens and other devices. The image of the written text may be sensed "off line" from a piece of paper by optical scanning or...
  
  
• Calculator, unit converter, stopwatch, alarm, timer, world clock, notes
• Games

Further applications and games are downloadable through JavaME

Java Platform, Micro Edition

Java Platform, Micro Edition, or Java ME, is a Java platform designed for embedded systems . Target devices range from industrial controls to mobile phones and set-top boxes...