Hands-on with HTC's newest touchscreen toy, say hello to the 3470
By Sean Cooper 
posted Feb 12th 2008 6:21PM
posted Feb 12th 2008 6:21PM
While HTC didn't arrive with the same kind of horsepower as Sony Ericsson or Samsung, they did manage to squeak one new handset out at the show, the Windows Mobile 6 -powered HTC 3470. It case you missed it, the handset features GPS -- while not crystal clear, the press material suggests HTC includes TomTom 6 -- quad-band GPRS / EDGE, 256 MB ROM, 128 MB RAM, Bluetooth, and a 1 GB microSD card. Sorry speed freaks, no WiFi or 3G connectivity here, but all the above is piled into a pretty tight container, in fact, it is one of HTC's smallest sets. Look for this to hit sometime this month on Orange in the UK, France, Spain and the Netherlands for a cool €449 or roughly $650.
I said it in the last article about this phone, and I'll say it again... I do not see why anyone would get this over the Touch Cruise (O2 XDA Orbit II)
After the current driver fiasco and essentially HTC's "fuck you" press release to their most loyal consumers I don't see why anyone would consider HTC anymore...I wont get an Experia, either, since HTC is the ODM.
Exactly, I don't see anything worthy about it to justify its price over other just-as-Q-crippled devices.
Box should read: may or may not include all necessary drivers, purchase at own risk.
sorry, but the lackluster CPU doesn't warrant a high price tag these days, especially coming from HTC. They need to fix the issues with the current crop of devices--the video drivers to be exact. Boo!
--James
I'd do her.
since this is an older platform i'm assuming it's going to come with drivers?
assuming theres drivers?!?!
Aparently we can't do that anymore.
Not with HTC at least.
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It looks like everyone is on the hate wagon at the moment. I will be offering this like all other HTC handsets as they are good at what they do. Put simply from what I see it will offer GPS and win mob 6 at a more affordable price to niche customers who are only looking for these features. There is a market for nearly every phone or handsets like the Nokia 7600 would never have been released.
It's not catering toward a niche market with the high price tag. That kills the availability of the device to the cost-minded consumers.
--James
It looks nice and everything (I dig the subtle, quitness of its design) but it sounds seriously underpowered for the price.
no drivers, no qwerty, no dice...
but on a more serious note, even though a lot of people will slam me for this, the sony ericson...there's no way sony would ever let htc get off the hook w/ the no driver issue on the xperia, so if that phone hits the streets for a decent price, i may just trade in my tilt and get that in a heartbeat.
I agree with you on that point, HTC is only making the hardware, Sony Ericsson is mking the software. And from the fluidity of the panel animations, it guess video drivers have been included.
looks like a touch with GPS for $200 more... yawn