HTC Pharos, Greek for "next, please"

Our eyes! This fat little guy, bearing a face only a mother could love, is said to be the HTC "Pharos" (no, not that Pharos) with a date with destiny as early as March, making a CeBIT announcement a distinct possibility. It'll apparently go by the name P3470 in HTC's lineup, clearly shoring up the very, very low end of the company's line with a mere 200MHz TI OMAP850 core, 256MB of ROM and 128MB of RAM, Bluetooth, integrated GPS, and a 2 megapixel camera -- not terrible specs, we suppose, until you take a good, hard gaze at the darned thing. No word on whether it'll be crossing the pond, but we're not going to get too caught up on that one.

[Via PHONE Magazine and UberGizmo]

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2008 12:45AM]

As a Portuguese, you managed to offend me.(joking, but I don't like it at all)

pcdebolso.com is a Portuguese website, not spanish, that's why the translation.. isn't much of a translation.

check this one:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcdebolso.com%2FnotVer.asp%3Fid%3D2708&langpair=pt%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2008 1:47AM]

200 mHz processor? I bet T-Mobile will pick it up; they're good about picking up shitty HTC devices.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2008 12:55PM]

I was thinking the same exact thing. Its like 200MHz is T-Mobile favorite number.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2008 4:16AM]

Yeah, I was about to say the T-Mo reference.

--James

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2008 7:35AM]

Damn, HTC has essentially been re-releasing the same devices for 5 years. The progress in the last 5 years is very sad. What other market has stood still like this? only new thing is GPS.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2008 7:46AM]

man htc is gonna mess up the android launch if they continue this behavior, are there any other fabricators onboard android besides them?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2008 11:24AM]

Sounds liek the Pharos is for those who want a cheap GPS option for their windows Mobile device. http://htcsource.com

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2008 4:15PM]

nothing new for me. i have been passed info of this device about a month ago. 1100 mah battery and NMEA 0183 gps. screen is said to be on the bright side and 2.8in