Commentary

Ed Hansberry
 

HTC Firestone Leaks

HTC has a big announcement tomorrow in London, but there haven't been a lot of details. Some think it is the HTC Hero, an Android powered device. It may be something else entirely, or a combination of things. We've got leaks of the HTC Firestone for you. Here is the rundown.

HTC has a big announcement tomorrow in London, but there haven't been a lot of details. Some think it is the HTC Hero, an Android powered device. It may be something else entirely, or a combination of things. We've got leaks of the HTC Firestone for you. Here is the rundown.The::Unwired has some images of the device along with specs. It will run Windows 6.5, and from the screen shots, it looks like native 6.5, not 6.5 plus a lot of UI tweaks from HTC. HTC has been heavily customizing their Windows Mobile phones lately giving them a better browser and finger friendliness, reducing the need for a stylus, all of which is to keep up with the iPhone. We won't know until tomorrow, or perhaps even later, if HTC thinks 6.5 is good enough to go it alone or if it needs some of HTC's magic faire dust to spruce up the UI.

Whatever the UI, the hardware is nice, though not spectacular. It has a 600MHz Qualcomm processor. I've sort of been spoiled by the recent news on the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor that starts at 1GHz. It is hard to get excited about a phone with anything less. Supporting the processor is 256MB of RAM and 512MB of storage ROM. You can use MicroSD cards to expand storage space for your music or video collection.


More Mobility Insights

White Papers

More >>

Reports

More >>

Webcasts

More >>

The Firestone is a quadband GSM phone with GPRS and EDGE support. UMTS (900MHz) and HSDPA (2100MHz) are also supported. Of course, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 and GPS are included.

It has a 3.6" touch screen (so it runs WinMo Professional) that supports an 800x400 resolution. It is rumored to have an 8MP camera.

The::Unwired thinks this could come out in August 2009, which is just 5-6 weeks away. We will hopefully know more after tomorrow's announcement. HTC could announce a whole slew of phones with WinMo 6.5, or announce shipment dates for upgrades for existing phones that support WinMo 6.5, like the HTC Touch Pro 2.


Related Reading




Currently we allow the following HTML tags in comments:

Single tags

These tags can be used alone and don't need an ending tag.

<br> Defines a single line break

<hr> Defines a horizontal line

Matching tags

These require an ending tag - e.g. <i>italic text</i>

<a> Defines an anchor

<b> Defines bold text

<big> Defines big text

<blockquote> Defines a long quotation

<caption> Defines a table caption

<cite> Defines a citation

<code> Defines computer code text

<em> Defines emphasized text

<fieldset> Defines a border around elements in a form

<h1> This is heading 1

<h2> This is heading 2

<h3> This is heading 3

<h4> This is heading 4

<h5> This is heading 5

<h6> This is heading 6

<i> Defines italic text

<p> Defines a paragraph

<pre> Defines preformatted text

<q> Defines a short quotation

<samp> Defines sample computer code text

<small> Defines small text

<span> Defines a section in a document

<s> Defines strikethrough text

<strike> Defines strikethrough text

<strong> Defines strong text

<sub> Defines subscripted text

<sup> Defines superscripted text

<u> Defines underlined text

InformationWeek encourages readers to engage in spirited, healthy debate, including taking us to task. However, InformationWeek moderates all comments posted to our site, and reserves the right to modify or remove any content that it determines to be derogatory, offensive, inflammatory, vulgar, irrelevant/off-topic, racist or obvious marketing/SPAM. InformationWeek further reserves the right to disable the profile of any commenter participating in said activities.

Disqus Tips To upload an avatar photo, first complete your Disqus profile. | View the list of supported HTML tags you can use to style comments. | Please read our commenting policy.
T-Shirt Giveaway T-Shirt Giveaway: Each week we're selecting one great comment from our readers. The author of the comment will receive an InformaitonWeek Community t-shirt. So get posting!
Subscribe to RSS

Resource Links