Barrage of HTCs rumored in the pipeline
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Jun 2nd 2006 6:40AM
posted Jun 2nd 2006 6:40AM
First up, the Muse has been mercifully renamed the "Melody," and the Triolgy has become "Monet." The Hermes, which is just starting to drop across Europe, has been upped to 400MHz for full-scale production; you might recall we recently reported that O2 was bringing a 400MHz Hermes to the table, and it now appears this will be standard fare for launches going forward. Trinity (pictured) specs are coming into focus, and we should expect this beast to throw down HSDPA, WiFi, and integrated GPS. There have been some rumblings of an "Artemis" recently, and that device still appears to be on the map, bringing integrated GPS and a trackball (wha?) but topping out with EDGE data. The "Herald" sounds positively gorgeous, similar in concept and functionality to the Hermes but measuring just 17mm thick. The Foreseer and Monet will be joined by the "Oxygen" in HTC's mobile TV lineup, though we don't know which standard it'll be packing. Looking to steal some of the Q's thunder, the "Excalibur" will be getting its QWERTY on and running Smartphone. Finally, look for "Vera" as a possible successor to the Star Trek, packing HSDPA and a front-facing camera for video calling.
That's a lot of unconfirmed data to digest, we know, and we're still trying to make sense of it all ourselves. No word on release windows for most of these -- if we could divine you a Vera tomorrow, we would -- but as always, we'll be burning the midnight oil in our quest for deets.
All I want to know is, which one will get a VGA screen???
-Astrantorastor
I'm pretty sure Sharp's W-Zero3 has a VGA display. It runs on Pocket PC and not SmartPhone...but it can be done, and not for that expensive. Sharp also has an even smaller (2.4") VGA that is on their V904SH phone carried by Vodafone Japan, and again not horribly expensive either.
Now THAT is sexy.... Thats what I am talkin about. When is it suppose to hit the market? Will it actually hit the US market?
All I know is once I have the Trinity I can wardrive with out lugging my laptop around. HSDPA is nothing to sneeze at either.
This looks like the old Motorola A1000.
The "Trinity" looks HOTT!!. Surprised i missed it.
Im gonna continue to wait for the N80 (Sad!, i know :().
I thought i had moved on after the never ending delays by Nokia & the N72 seems more suited for me, But after playing around with a mock up of the N80 last week. WOW. It looks (Black) & feels awsome. A tad too thick though + i hear the batt life is a deal breaker.
Lets see.
On topic though, all my friends complain about Win Mo 5, even though its better than previous versions, it pales infront of Symbian ease of use and functionality.
These look/sound great.
It would be interesting if the Muse (I mean Melody), or Trinity, have a vertically sliding numeric keypad (instead of a horizontal QWERTY), since this would keep the ability to opperate them one-handed.
T-9 is good enough for every other Mobile phone, why not for one of these?
what is this big black button under the screen? touchpad, joystick, clickwheel? Is it going to be another great HTC device without normal d-pad (like hx4700)?
#2: The HTC Universal has a VGA screen. But that phone's also huge; the problem isn't an OS issue, it's a battery life issue.