HTC's model naming convention has always been just a little tricky to commit to memory, and with this latest batch, it certainly ain't getting any easier. A couple of these we've heard about before -- namely the
Nike,
Kaiser, and
Shangri-La -- but the rest are brand new to us and
very exciting. First up, the S640 "Iris" is a CDMA rendition of the
Excalibur and
Cavalier, tossing in EV-DO rev. A and WiFi atop Windows Mobile 6 Standard. The "Vogue" is essentially a Touch (TouchFLO UI and all) with the same EV-DO rev. A guts as the Iris -- good news for Verizon and Sprint customers, we'd imagine. GSM users have reason to celebrate here too, though, in the form of the "Volans" and "Polaris." These two are upgrades to the
Vox and
Artemis, respectively, adding in much-needed 3G radios and faster processors. Finally, the P6550
"Sedna" appears to be some sort of industrial device with support for a credit card reader -- though with a 3 megapixel cam and 3G data, we wouldn't mind having one ourselves. Release dates are up in the air on most of these, but our money is on late '07.
[Via
The Boy Genius Report]
Update: Crikey, the Shangri-La's slide reveals that the device -- HTC's entry into the UMPC fray -- runs both Vista
and Windows Mobile 6. Sound
vaguely familiar? [Thanks,
Kevin]
posted Jun 21st 2007 at 2:56PM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Matthew Smith @ Jun 22nd 2007 12:39AM
Ok, other than the missing keyboard, doesn't the Polaris and its 0.7in-bigger VGA screen look a lot juicier than the Kaiser right now? Also looks like that thing has a tiny trackball below too, if I'm not mistaken? Yeah, VGA will make it slower, as it's on the same 400mhz proc as the Kaiser... but... VGA, yum yum. :) Hope that wasn't just a typo by HTC...
Jer @ Jun 22nd 2007 5:41PM
Hmm...I was wondering from seeing a slideshow of the HTC Shift if maybe on the underside of the device is a second LCD display. If it turns out that the HTC Shangri-La is nothing more than another name for the Shift, then perhaps that second LCD I thought I saw is a WM6 running sideshow device that allows the computer to have its display turned off or turned fully into standby while still acting as a phone. Should be very INTERESTING to see...