You've already seen it
in Japan for months, now HTC has officially launched their HTC Touch Dual (as they now call it) for Europe. Once only known as the
Nike, the Touch Dual now measures in at 107 x 55 x 15.8-mm / 120-grams (slightly different than its Japanese sib) and packs WCDMA/HSDPA 2100MHz and GSM/EDGE 900/1800/1900MHz radios. Of course, it brings the
TouchFLO interface riding atop Windows Mobile 6 Professional and 2.6-inch QVGA touch-screen as you'd expect. Inside you'll find a 400MHz Qualcomm MSM7200 processor; 256MB flash, 128MB RAM and microSD expansion; Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
802.11b/g WiFi; HTC ExtUSB (HTC's mini USB 2.0 jack with support for data and audio); and enough juice to power WCDMA talk for up to 240 minutes or up to 360 minutes on GSM frequencies. Available this month on Orange in select European countries. Pricing? Yeah, we'd like to know that too.
Update: Whoa Nelly, what's this? No WiFi? Although we're fairly certain we saw it (wishful thinking?) a second look at the specs reveals the lack of WiFi on this HTC device. Oh my.
Update 2: We just received confirmation direct from HTC: no WiFi unlike its
Japanese twin. Yes, we're also surprised.
[Thanks, Rob]
posted Oct 1st 2007 7:15AM
Correction, no wifi, unless HTC website is not to be believed.
http://www.europe.htc.com/z/pdf/products/HTC_Touch_Dual_CH_EN_300907.pdf
um...
a quick question...the second picture in the gallery shows a different keypad layout. i wonder which is which?
also, the first image says HTC Touch Slide
I wonder if these are actually two machines sharing the same case (sort of)
It's very strange that HTC does not include WiFi in the new Touch Slide...
Better question... if its a dual slide, where is the other slide other than a fake qwerty?
There still seems to be some confusion about this handset. Here's what I know:
- There will be to version - one with numerical keypad (0-9) and one with SureType keypad (or whatever it is).
Here's what I'm not certain of:
- The name - I think it will be HTC Touch Slide (numerical keypad) and HTC Touch Slid Dual (SureType keypad, Dual = two letters per key).
- Inclusion of WiFi. It's not listed on HTC's site, but both Paul and Chris (Monolithix) from MoDaCo say the devices at the event had WiFi.
To version = Two versions
Is this coming out for North America? If so then when and on what network?
Hopefully Sprint