pdQ² Price and Size Revealed

InfoWorld has an article on Kyocera Wireless' forthcoming pdQ² that gives some details that weren't previously available. Quoting "sources familiar with the SmartPhone", they say it will cost between $399 to $449. The exact price will be set by the resellers, typically wireless ISPs. They go on to say that the pdQ² will have 8MB of memory and a screen smaller than that of a Palm III or V, which seems to imply that it will be about the size of the m100 screen. The whole case will be 0.86 inches thick, about five inches long, and weigh about seven ounces. The sources confirmed that it will be using OS 3.5.

Background
Photos and a user manual of the not yet released pdQ² appeared on an FTC web site a few weeks ago and a few days later, Kyocera confirmed that these were authentic.

The pdQ² is both a CDMA cell phone and a Palm PDA in one small package. Some of its most notable features are a small dial called a shuttle that allows users to move through on-screen menus one handed, voice dialing of everyone in the Address Book, voice memos, paging, voice mail, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, and a headset jack.