HTC Kaiser becomes MDA Vario III for T-Mobile Germany

Oh T-Mobile Germany, you and your name swapping ways never cease to amaze confuse us. Sure enough, the overseas carrier notorious for rebranding handsets has reportedly picked up the HTC Kaiser and hastily dubbed it the MDA Vario III. For those paying close attention, you'd notice that this move mimics a similar one made with the HTC Hermes last year, but the third iteration of the MDA Vario touts 3.6Mbps HSDPA connectivity, quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE, Windows Mobile 6 Professional, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS, a microSD expansion slot, and a 400MHz Qualcomm CPU. Sadly, no price was mentioned, and while Germans can expect to find this device in T-Mobile outlets come September, surrounding countries will be forced to play the wait-and-see game.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:00PM]

I know a website that has sold 3 HTC Kaisers for $1,600 EACH. People want this phone badly and I can understand why.

I am over the slide out QWERTY keyboard, but this is a great phone with even better specs. My only gripe is that it weighs 192 grams, which is heavy. Ill stick with my HTC Trinity for now.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:45PM]

Looks awfully similar to the HTC Titan/xv6800/mogul/etc. Come to think of it, all of these HTC phone with the side-sliding QWERTY are almost identical.

And btw- when in the world will we see any of these cool HTC phones at verizon? I want that xv 6800

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 4:46PM]

Damn I want this phone. My current phone is getting long in the tooth but there's nothing worth upgrading to.