Isaiah's Tech

An internal document has just stated that T-Mobile will be releasing the T-Mobile Opal later this year. The "Opal" name is key because that was the codename for the HTC Touch Viva. Could this mean that we could see an Android version of the HTC Touch Viva? Possibly. It should have similar features, so we're looking at a low-end Android handset here. The Opal should have: a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen display, a 2MP camera, 128MB of RAM, 256MB of ROM, and WiFi. Let's hope the specs get a tiny bump.

Surprisingly enough, this document lines up with what we heard in July, so check out this link for more information. If what we heard in July is true this handset could be released as early as next month (September).

[Cell Passion]

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)]