HTC P3450 Elf unboxed

We peeped HTC's P3450 "Elf" in the wild a little earlier this month and now the Boy Genius Report brings us the full unboxing experience. The Elf is a pretty beast, all clad in glossy white but comes up short in the front face usability category with a distinctive lack of application keys. As a refresh, the Elf packs a 2 megapixel cam, is quad-band EDGE capable, and is powered by the somewhat feeble OMAP850 hobbling along at 201MHz. Of course depending on how you slice it, this, one of HTC's newest unofficial offerings, may be a bonus by not hauling as many pennies from your pockets as some of its other more capable sets might. Hit the read link to get at more pics of HTC's newest Windows Mobile 6 effort.

[(Unverified) Posted May 30th 2007 6:36AM]

"powered by the somewhat feeble OMAP850 hobbling along at 201MHz"

It's the same CPU as the HTC Wizard (MDA Vario), and they perform fine at 195mhz.

That's only marginally slower than the Intel Xscale CPU's running at 400mhz, and for a budget device, perfectly adequate, it's just a different CPU architecture, so don't let the clock speeds confuse you.

That CPU can easily be overclocked to at least 250mhz, sometimes 275mhz which then brings it's performance somewhere between a 400-520mhz xscale, with no noticeable issues.