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http://www.radio-mart.net/TYT-TH-UVF9-Tri-Band-Handheld.html
This looks
very interesting if they would do the correct 220 range for amateur use. As in, I'll buy a couple of them interesting, if they're Part 90 approved.
I was really digging the old Moto cell phone display, but it appears the actual production units have a standard LCD.
I wonder how long before one of these companies does an "everything" HT, with low band/6m/4m, VHF, 220, UHF, and 900. Poor man's MBITR.
Interesting the one you listed shows triband, but the one listed on 409shop shows dualband.
I don't know if it's actually a triband radio or just confusion in translation. Chinese spec sheets are often very confusing. Different websites show the UVF9 as offering a dual band VHF/220 version, dual band 220/UHF, and this one shows triband. Most all show the white-on-black display yet actual radios appear to be a typical black-on-grey LCD.
The TYT quad band mobile is listed as a "dual band" also on a spec sheet, presumably because it shows two frequencies at the same time.
Example:
http://www.kightradio.com/item.php?item_id=279&category_id=70
I really wish they'd offer a few more "commercial" oriented models - a simple low cost radio with no display, and/or radios that are limited to a simple single alphanumeric channel tag in the display. Such setup in a low cost dual band HT would make some inroads into the commercial market.
ETA:
There seems to be a lot of "Kenwood" influence in some of the Chinese makers, I think it seems obvious that some of them are the OEMs for some Kenwood products (like when you use Kenwood programming software for the radios). And Kenwood does have a triband (2m/220/440) HT, so I don't think it's out of the question that there is a similar triband HT from one of the Chinese companies.