Isaiah's Tech

Windows Mobile 6.5 is going to be hitting the world in less than 2 weeks - October 6th - and Microsoft has just made an announcement. According to the senior director of the GCR Mobile Team Unit at Microsoft China, Benjamin Tan, at least 30 WinMo 6.5 handsets are going to launch by the end of the year. This is great news for WinMo lovers. If the HTC Leo launches this year, I could hop on-board.

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The HTC Mega has been officially announced today and it will be launching as the HTC Touch2. This handset will be running on WinMo 6.5 and will actually be available the day WinMo 6.5 / Windows Phone gets released (October 6th) for around $300 USD. If the rumours are true, we should be expecting: a 2.8-inch touchscreen display with a 240 x 320 resolution, a Qualcomm MSM7225 528MHz CPU, quad-band EDGE / dual-band HSPA support, GPS / Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR support, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a 3.2MP camera, a microSD card slot, and HTC's own TouchFlo UI.

This handset reminds me of a small HTC Touch HD to be honest.

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Another picture of the HTC Mega has just popped up. A couple of weeks ago, we saw a rendered version and we also found out the specs of this upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 handset. Below the spec sheet, there are two shots of the new TouchFLO2D UI that'll be found on the HTC Mega. Unfortunately, the real name is still unknown and we saw the UI a month ago.
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As you may or may not know, the HTC Touch Diamond 2 is going to be launched by Verizon as the HTC XV6975 - or could this actually be the Whitestone? Whatever it is, above is the new rendered form of it. It looks quite different from the Touch Diamond 2 that we all know and love, but it looks sexy. Like I said, this could be the Whitestone, since the specs are a little bit different from the Touch Diamond 2. This handset has: a 3.6-inch WVGA touchscreen display, aGPS support, a 5MP AF camera, a Qualcomm 7600 528MHz CPU, 512MB of ROM, 256MB of RAM, GSM / CDMA connectivity, and it will also run WinMo 6.1. It will, of course, be upgradeable to WinMo 6.5. If you remember, the Touch Diamond 2 has a smaller 3.2-inch touchscreen display. Anyways, the release date for the Touch Diamond 2 / Whitestone / XV6975 on Verizon is said to be September / October.

I've talked about the HTC Mega before and what you see above is what it will supposedly look like. The HTC Mega has: a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen display, GSM / HSDPA connectivity, GPS support, a 3MP camera, a Qualcomm 7225 528MHz CPU, and 256MB of ROM and RAM. It will be running on WinMo 6.5 and will have the new Touch FLO2D UI that we saw just over a week ago.

Last, but not least, is a picture of the HTC Tachi. This phone will be sold in China via China Telecom, under the Dopod brand name. It'll be running Windows Mobile.

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Remember the HTC Mega? Well, it looks like it could be available this Fall, since the ROM has just leaked and is on its way to XDA-Developers. This new version of HTC's TouchFLO2D seems like it has a bit of the Sense UI mixed in with it; so, this could be the start of HTC fuzing the two UI's together. Apparently, this new ROM works "flawlessly" with WinMo 6.5, so the HTC Mega could launch with it pre-installed. This would mean a Fall release for the "Mega".

[WMPowerUser]

There's not really much to report here, but it looks like one of the 4 smartphones we heard about two days ago will have WiFi. The HTC Mega has just got a WiFi Alliance certificate and is rumoured to run Windows Mobile 6.5. This smartphone could have a similar form factor to the HTC Touch 3G.

It looks like HTC "will launch a device running its own proprietary OS with many features of TouchFlo3D and HTC Sense as early as September this year." This handset will have a similar factor to the HTC Touch Viva. It looks like it will be a low-end phone and could actually be the HTC Mega that I talked about in the first paragraph - since the HTC Touch Viva and HTC Touch 3G look similar. We'll see what happens in the coming months.

[Cell Passion (HTC Mega), WMPowerUser (HTC)]

Following up on the HTC Dawn from this morning, it looks like HTC could be preparing more smartphones for the future. The HTC Leo, Click, Mega, and Rome smartphones are probably all just codenames because they would sound pretty dumb as actual smartphone names. Anyways, the HTC Leo looks like it could be a smartphone with two displays, a WVGA (480 x 800 resolution) internal and a QVGA external. The Leo is expected to support OpenGL 2.0 and could have a Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU - similar to the Toshiba TG01. Unwired View points out that this smartphone could be similar to the HTC Omni (mock-up picture above) which was scheduled to be released a few years ago.

The HTC Click is another smartphone that could be actually be classified as an "entry-level" Android-based handset. Unfortunately, there are absolutely no details on the HTC Mega or the HTC Rome. Hopefully, we'll know more details about all four of these handsets / smartphones in the near future.

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