Isaiah's Tech

The HTC Smart looks like it will be launched exclusively on a carrier over in Europe. We're talking about O2. The Qualcomm Brew-powered phone will be available for free on contract and will be available starting this April. This handset features a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen display, a 3MP camera with a flash, a 300MHz CPU, a microSD card slot, a 3.5mm headpone jack, and Bluetooth 2.0 support.

[Engadget Mobile]

We first heard about this phone back in December and now it's been official. The HTC Touch.B / Rome will be launched as the HTC Smart. It'll be running on Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform  - also in the INQ Mini 3G - and will be overlayed with HTC's Sense UI. This handset will reportedly feature: a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen display, a 3MP camera with a flash, a 300MHz CPU, a microSD card slot, 256MB of ROM and RAM, a 3.5mm headphone jack, GSM / HSDPA connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, and an 1,100 mAh battery. This looks like it will be HTC's first dumbphone - especially since it's missing WiFi and GPS.

[Tech Radar, Unwired View]

Just two days ago we heard a rumour that a variant of the HTC Touch2 would launch with Android and that would be the HTC Touch.B (HTC Rome). Well, a new rumour states that the Touch.B actually won't be fueled by Android. It'll actually be running Qualcomm's Brew mobile OS, which I know absolutely nothing about. We'll just to wait around for more information about this handset.

Update: At this point, the UI is pretty simple with a bit of HTC's own TouchFLO. It'll reportedly have a 2MP camera (with no video recording capabilities) and 3G / Bluetooth support. No WiFi on this sucker though. This handset is expected to launch in early 2010 and will be an entry-level device. However, there is Adobe Flash support, which makes things interesting. Check out the video below for a short teaser on the simple UI.



[Phone Arena, Slash Gear]

What you see above - believe it or not - is not the HTC Touch2 running Windows Mobile, but it seems to be a variant of it. The difference between this and the Touch2 is that this is the HTC "Rome" (or HTC Touch.B) that will be running Android. If this is true it will likely be an entry-level / mid-end handset. We don't know the specifications of this handset, but I'm betting that it'll be quite similar to what you'll find in the Touch2.

[Slash Gear]

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.

[Unwired View]