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Two phone updates from HTC, via MSMobiles, today. The one above is an HTC Hermes smartphone. You can see it's got a QWERTY keyboard, and that's a 2.1 Megapixel camera with flash in the upper corner. It's also carrying a video camera, 802.11 b/g WiFi, Bluetooth and a 320 x 240 QVGA screen. Now for the flurry of network compabitility acronyms: UMTS, EDGE, GPRS, and GSM Quadband. The Hermes is expected in May 2006.
And then there's the StarTrek, which looks not so much like the gadget that beamed up Captain Kirk, but a lot like a RAZR (the photo doesn't do it much justice). The StarTrek has nearly the same dimensions as the RAZR, along with a 320 x 240 QVGA screen, 2 Megapixel camera with flash, Bluetooth, a Micro SD slot and compatibility with EDGE, GPRS and GSM Quadband networks.
There does not appear to be any connection between the StarTrek phone and the official Star Trek licensor, Paramount. Did HTC put down money to use that name, or do they think that closing the space between those two words would somehow let them off the hook? I suppose we'll find out by March 2006, which is when this phone is expected to go on sale.
HTC StarTrek appears - and it looks fantastic! [CoolSmartPhone]
EXCLUSIVE: photos of HTC Star Trek smartphone and HTC Hermes Pocket PC phone [MSMobiles]
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Actually the 2.1 MP camera is not the one in the corner. Thats the "Vedio Cam" (not my typo, look at the high-res picture at the MSMobiles link). You know, the idea is to use the video camera for videoconferencing (UMTS marketing attempt - really, who gives a damn about videoconferencing, what about high-speed internet anywhere? Advertise that, dorks!) so it'd be mounted on the side with the display. The 2.1 MP camera is on the other side, not shown in those pictures. Thats also why you can't spot the flash here either.
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