Oh hell yes,
did we call it or did we call it? That mystery device has a keyboard, and it turns out that HTC's totally sick successor to the
Hermes / TyTn is the O2 Mars which nails the aesthetics where the Hermes suffers so, and will supposedly come equipped with a 520MHz XScale, GPRS / EDGE / UMTS (sorry, no HSDPA), 64MB ram, 128MB flash, WiFi, Bluetooth, miniSD, and a 2 megapixel camera. Ok, so maybe we're only excited about this thing because it's one of the only QWERTY devices we've seen lately out of HTC that wasn't a little hard to look at (
Excalibur, we're lookin' at you, buddy), but we don't need to excuse our love of gadgets, so if you'll let us continue our fawning. Thank you.
P.S. -Sorry, we didn't mean to gloss over the Jupiter, which appears to be the successor to the
Breeze -- there's just not a lot of info there. Click on for some pics.
[Via
the::unwired]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Patrick Mcleod @ Sep 5th 2006 1:39AM
It has been reported in more that one place that these new phones are not made by HTC.
Rick @ Sep 5th 2006 6:00AM
If not HTC, what is the platform for these smartphones?
Kyle @ Sep 5th 2006 10:35AM
If I'm not mistaken the supposed word was that Asus was manufacturing at least the ppc. And definetly still Windows Mobile 5 platform.
Martin @ Sep 5th 2006 10:39AM
These devices are made by Asus for O2 Asia (not O2 Europe) as O2 Asia for some reason doesn't get along with HTC (or at least doesn't use their devices anymore). Read the forum link for a little more on that matter.
And why would HTC's upgrade to the Hermes be a device practically the same, but without HSDPA. Even HTC wouldn't do that :p