The phone blogs are abuzz with this sighting of HTC's lineup, showing both existing models and a mystery or two on the bottom row. Boy Genius thinks the first, third and fourth are the same, but I'm wondering if the first is a slide-out key version of the second (a P3470), while the third and fourth are something else entirely. In any case, it's a peculiarity that will hopefully be clarified soon, as it's also a damn nice looking phone. WinMo, Android or whatever, we'll be ready to have a look. In the meantime, your guess is as good as ours. (Hint, hint.) [BGR]
Mystery No-Name HTC Revealed In Pic
2:30 PM on Sun Apr 20 2008
By Wilson Rothman
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cool.
It looks to me like the bottom row is the replacement for the upper row. So the bottom left is the replacement for the TyTnII, bottom right is the replacement for the Touch, etc.
I'm pretty sure that boy genius is correct about 3 phones on the bottom row. They appear to be the new "Raphael" which is a TYTN III (VGA touchscreen, slide out keyboard, white-LED lit D-pad.
@blitzkrieg999: Nice observation. I agree with you.
All I know is the 1st looks like the HTC Tilt, 3rd looks like the HTC Touch Cruise, 4th looks like the HTC Touch Dual (Maybe?), 5th looks like one of those Google Android phones, 6th looks like HTC T-Mobile Shadow II, and the last 2 I don't know
bottom second is the shadow 2 [gizmodo.com]
@Technogen: That's what I thought at first but now I think it's the P3470.
No, the one on the bottom is not the Shadow 2. The screen is too large, and look, it supports the HTC today screen, which means that it is a PPC, not a smartphone.
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On second look, it might be the Shadow 2, sorry, i'm looking at the layout of the screen, it looks like it has Start and Contacts at the bottom, which is indeed a smartphone feature.
bottom right is the Android one. Cause it's the only one that isn't turned on!!! Dah, the other three are showing WinMo, allthough the 3rd from left is showing an updated interface of what seems to be the HTC Touch.
I'm tired of these tiny screens on these phones. That's one reason the iPhone has become so much more appealing to people than WinMo. I'm waiting for HTC to put out something that can replace my BlueAngel. Spec it out like the Tilt (but with better performance), but give me a real, usable without a stylus screen please! Until then I see no phone I want to buy.
I think the first and the fourth are the same, the third looks a bit different...
@blitzkrieg999: I agree, the positioning of the two rows does seem to suggest a comparison. If they are in fact replacements they look to be fairly worthy ones.
@googlesmith: I said that one was the Android one. I used to remember the exact model number of it; but, I forgot what it was.
I might wanna get the T-Mobile Shadow II
On the tilt (HTC TyTN II), isn't the white number keys something that has only been done for AT&T - because my TyTN II does not have white number keys on the keyboard.
This could be some new phones coming to AT&T.
@blitzkrieg999: I agree with you totally.
It does seem as if they're showing a before and after type thing because the one under the touch is relatively slim.
Also the phone under the shadow was referred to as the shadow 2 which t-mobile is supposed to be releasing soon.
And with the microsoft supposedly pushing to have the minimum requirements to run the WM OS higher maybe HTC decided to make a new AT&T phone i think its called TyTN aka Kasier or Tilt so it would be able to run all that bloatware AT&T packs into it and the new WM6.1 without that much strain on the actual hardware ending in a better user experience.
I have it on good authority that the one of the bottom left is the Tilts replacement. Having actually held one in my hand when I talked our microsoft vendor into taking it out of his pocket the other day even though he told me repeatadly he wasn't even supposed to have left the office with it.. Pretty sweet phone. You won't be seeing it hit the stores for several more months and they had to take out the tilt part because the mechanism that does the whole tilting thing was was too big and they (HTC)wanted their new phone to go on a bit of a weight loss plan since so many people complained about the weight of the tilt.
I hope they all run WinMo 6.1
@quikboy: Did you miss all the "Android phone" posts in this thread?
If they're so smart why do they need all those physical buttons
Any that aren't ugly or cheap looking?
They may be nice phones otherwise.
@liveinvt: I guess there's supposed to be an apple in iPhone too.
wonder if they will have video drivers installed this time....
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