The HTC QUAR100: a North American exclusive?

Once again, the mysterious Bluetooth SIG has left us with more questions than answers. Yes, okay, so there's an HTC "QUAR100" that we have to worry about now, but what is it? Given the gem theme they've set up for themselves, odds are the "QUAR" stands for "Quartz" -- though our comprehensive set of Scrabble tools reminds us that it could also be "Quart," "Quarterback," or "Quarterfinalist," among many others -- and we can at least glean that it's a phone (as opposed to, say, a standalone PDA) with WiFi. The most intriguing thing we've got going here might be the mention of North America as the one and only region for planned availability, an unusual move more frequently reserved for HTC's CDMA devices than anything else. Any educated (or not-so-educated guesses) out there?

[Via Cellpassion]

Read - WiFi certification
Read - Bluetooth SIG certification

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2008 12:37AM]

T-Mobile-spec Touch Diamond or Touch Pro? :D :D :D

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2008 1:03AM]

Well if they "dumbed" down the diamond like one article said Verizon hoped to do, wouldn't that be a fitting name?
Looks like a diamond... but it ain't the same?

That's what came to mind... I hope I am wrong, for everyone's sake.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2008 1:30AM]

My guess is or should I say hopes are that it is a CDMA Sprint/Android phone that will make the Dream look like a piece of crap!...oh yea it already does. ahahaha

[Moe Posted Sep 9th 2008 2:09AM]

this could be verizon's diamond with less features
maybe a quarter of them
quar100= quarter of a diamond!!
:)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2008 2:03PM]

I believe the Verizon model already has a name (Herman or Victor)

[Yoshi Posted Sep 9th 2008 3:06AM]

My vote goes to QUAR100 becoming the Quark. It's a smart phone for smart people ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2008 8:38AM]

its sprints andriod device

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2008 12:37PM]

You sure it isn't QUACK?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2008 12:52PM]

Definately Quartz

[keithwwalker Posted Sep 10th 2008 8:31PM]

This is the Athena replacement.
32gb SSD (Samsung has a new 1.0 inch form factor 32GB SSD on their site)
Smaller, more pocketable, but with same size screen
Better video performance
...I wish.