HTC Announce 3 new handsets

HTC HD Mini


Following the well received HTC HD2 - the HTC HD Mini gives the same quality and design in a more compact frame.

Hold great craftsmanship in your hand with a unique design that is simple yet beautiful from inside out. Clean lines, compact form, and elegant construction give the HTC HD mini the looks that fit any place, time or circumstance.

The HTC HD mini features HTC Sense – a user experience that is simple to use, amazing to look at, and loaded with valuable applications.

Make It Mine
Create a perfect phone for you by putting shortcuts to the most important people, web sites, or most used applications right on the home screen. Prioritize your essentials by arranging the tabs of the key phone features to suit your needs. Stay CloseStay close to those you care about with all the ways to get in touch and all your past interactions neatly organized by people – not by applications.

Go from email to a voice call in just one touch. Get everyone from an email involved in a multi-party call with a couple of taps. And take the challenge out of jumping between calendar appointment and phone when trying to join a conference bridge – now you’re guided with a big reminder button – so you can easily join in on the call. Keep track of everyone’s real-time Twitter™ updates on the built-in client. Easily dive into a conversation or share your own thoughts and pictures. You can even post your precise GPS location with a couple of taps.

Discover the Unexpected
Some design features of HTC HD mini are much better experienced than explained. For example, you can virtually feel the weather on the lifelike animated wallpaper that automatically reflects your location.
Experience a phone ringer that knows when it has been heard and when it should ring loudly for your attention. The ringer volume lowers when the G-sensor on your phone detects that the phone has been picked up.

On the other hand, when the proximity sensors detect that the phone is in your pocket or a purse, the ringer volume scales up to ensure that you don’t miss an important call.
Give your music collection the visual décor it deserves. With just one tap, your phone searches the web for the actual album art cover and replaces the placeholder image in your music library.

The HTC HD mini, with capacitive touch technology, is designed for pure finger touch control. Zoom in and out of web pages, word documents, PDFs, pictures, or emails with just a simple pinch. Set up calendar appointments, reply to emails, and adjust your phone settings on the interface optimized for use with your fingers.

Bring the HTC HD mini with you on the road, and you'll never have to hunt for a Wi-Fi® hotspot for your laptop. Your phone simply connects to superfast 3.5G cellular networks and becomes your personal wireless access point – anytime, anywhere.
This is a Windows Mobile 6.5 handset
Specification here
Release Date TBC



HTC Desire





Make It Mine


With the HTC Desire, it’s all about your information, your entertainment, your multimedia … your way. A multitude of HTC Sense widgets makes it easy to transform your Home screen with rich content that personalizes your phone experience.

If you’re a sports junkie or simply love to keep up to date with the latest news, the HTC Desire keeps you in the know with the News application. News makes it easier than ever to collect all your favorite articles from across the web.

Choose from a selection of channels that cover top blogs, news sites or sports pages, or get news updates based on the keywords you select.

Stay Close
The HTC Desire excels at helping you stay in touch with the different circles of friends or colleagues in your life. The new People widget lets you bring any group you create on your phone right to the surface for easy access to calling, messaging, emailing or simply checking up on social networking updates.

The HTC Desire simplifies the way that you tend to all of your social networks. With Friend Stream, your interaction with friends across multiple social networks like Facebook®, Twitter™, and Flickr™ are brought into a single easy to follow stream of updates, photo posts, and shared links. Friend Stream also lets you shout out your thoughts or feelings to all your online friends with a single comment that gets broadcast to both Facebook and Twitter.


Discover the Unexpected
HTC Desire offers an expansive display, a blazing-fast processor, and a great interface. On top of that, it has a lot of little design touches that make a big impact on your overall phone experience: like quick and easy access to any panel of your Home screen with the new seven-panel ‘helicopter’ thumbnail view, or the polite ringer that lowers the ringer volume when you pick upthe phone.

Your work email, calendar appointments, and contacts, are right there on your phone - you can even look up any company contact in the global address book. The HTC Desire also has enhanced support for Exchange security features such as password protection and remote data wipe. And, if you forget to tell your colleagues that you are taking the much needed day off, you can set the ‘Out of Office’ status right from your phone. HTC Desire was designed to thrive on the web. The screen size is perfect for mobile browsing, with the high resolution AMOLED display making everything you view ultra crisp. The pinch to zoom feature makes zipping around websites intuitive - the text even automatically reflows when you take a closer look so you don’t have to pan left or right, and the Adobe® Flash® support opens up the vast video and gaming resources of the Internet.

HTC Desire’s browser is designed to do more than simply browse. With just a press and hold you can select text on a page and look it up in Wikipedia or have it converted into your native tongue via Google translation tools.

This is an Android 2.1 handset
Specifications here
Release Date TBC

HTC Legend

The premier Android 2.1 handset




Overview The sleek unibody design with a brilliant AMOLED display and a brushed metallic finish, feels great in your hand and stirs admiration from those around. Along with powerful social networking, group communication, and unmatched level of personalization, the HTC Legend is set to impress you.

Make It Mine
The HTC Legend raises personalization to a whole new altitude. An expanded selection of widgets brings more live content to the surface, for your instant enjoyment. There is even an online widget library, so no matter what your personality, there is content to help you get more out of your phone.

Stay Close
The HTC Legend builds on the tradition of designing our phones to focus more on WHO we communicate with, rather than the tools used, like email, SMS or calls.
The HTC Legend excels at helping you stay in touch with the different circles of friends or colleagues in your life. The new People widget lets you bring any group you create on your phone right to the surface for easy access to calling, messaging, emailing them or simply checking up on their social networking updates. The HTC Legend also simplifies the way you tend to all your social networks. With Friend Stream, the various interaction with your friends across multiple social networks, like Facebook®, Twitter™, and Flickr™ are brought into a single easy to follow stream of updates, photo posts, and shared links. Friend Stream also lets you shout out your thoughts or feelings with all your online friends with a single update that gets broadcast to both Facebook and Twitter.

Discover the Unexpected
The HTC Legend is loaded with hidden little design touches that are sure to delight you. Like the ringer that knows when it has been heard. The ringer volume politely lowers when the G-sensor on your phone detects that the phone has been picked up, and it completely silences when you flip the phone upside down.

Now you can use a cool phone while keeping your work email and other information safe. The HTC Legend has enhanced support for Exchange security features such as password protection and remote data wipe. You can easily access your company’s global address book to contact someone whose details aren’t on your phone, and you can also set your Out of Office status right from your phone.

Browsing on the HTC Legend is a high fidelity experience. Adobe® Flash® support brings to life the vast video and gaming content of the Internet. Pinch to zoom controls make it extremely easy to zip around pages and take a closer look at text or images. Also, with just a tap and hold you can select text on a page and look it up in Wikipedia or have it converted into another language via Google’s translation tools.

This is an Android 2.1 handset
Specifications here
Release Date TBC

Labels: Android, Desire, HTC, HTC HD Mini, Legend, Windows Mobile

HTC Announce new Smartphone for the Masses - HTC Smart

HTC Smart’s friendly compact design and integration of HTC Sense will appeal to a broad range of people all over the world LAS VEGAS, Consumer Electronics Show (CES), – Jan. 7, 2010 – HTC Corporation, a global smartphone designer, today unveiled HTC SmartTM , a new type of smartphone that creates a new category of easy-to-use, connected smartphones that are accessible by people all over the world. The HTC Smart will be available this spring across Europe and Asia.

Bringing HTC Sense To The Masses

HTC Smart begins with a friendly compact touch design and integrates an intuitive user experience that is centered around HTC SenseTM , an HTC design philosophy that puts people at the center by focusing on three core areas: Make It Mine, Stay Close and Discover the Unexpected. HTC Smart enables personal customization of each person’s own phone experience. It also provides a quick and easy way to see what friends are up to via various social networks as well as quickly communicating over the phone, through text messaging or email.

“HTC Smart breaks new ground in delivering the powerful, in-demand smartphone features that consumers want on a more accessible device for global markets,” said Paul Jacobs, chief executive officer, Qualcomm Incorporated. “We are pleased to be supporting HTC as they utilize the capabilities of Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile Platform open operating system to offer high-end capabilities and a compelling mobile user experience at mass-market price points.”

Qualcomm Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP) HTC Smart utilizes Qualcomm’s Brew MP, a popular mobile operating system that enables smartphone devices to be offered at more aggressive price points, providing HTC with the flexibility to deliver smartphone features on devices across multiple tiers.

Full Specifications here

Labels: HTC, smart

HTC Unveils the new HTC HD2

Labels: HD2, HTC, Windows Mobile 6.5

HTC - Announcing new Android handset with included Sense

HTC Hero - HTC have announced a new addition to the Android operating system devices (see here for the first - HTC Magic).

This is the first HTC Android handset with a custom HTC interface - the HTC Sense - an intuitive, seamless experience built upon three fundamental principles - make it mine, stay close, and discover the unexpected.

Make it Mine
With HTC Hero, personalization reaches a level never before possible. Rather than burying important content under layers of menus, the HTC Hero lets you put it at glance view, with a selection of widgets that can be placed right on the home screen. The widgets themselves can be personalized with a variety of designs and sizes that best match your personality. With Scenes, a new profile feature, HTC Hero becomes multiple phones in one. Create and switch between Scenes that reflect different moments in your life. Your Hero becomes a weekend phone that helps you relax with your choice of tunes, catch up with your favorite friends and capture some memories with HTC Footprints™. And when you go on a trip, your phone becomes your personal guide and gives you instant access to local time, weather and maps.

Stay Close
Today, staying in touch with the people in your life means managing a variety of communication channels and applications ranging from phone calls and emails to Facebook updates. HTC Hero makes staying close as simple as turning to your friend and saying hello. When you view people, you see the different ways to get in touch, you also see all your interactions like emails sent to your personal and work accounts. You can even check for social network updates and event notices as well as see the latest pictures your friends uploaded to popular photo sharing sites.

Discover the Unexpected
Many of the most memorable moments in your life are experienced, not explained. Even basic functions like the dialer will pleasantly surprise you on the HTC Hero. You can find a person by dialing their phone number or simply by dialing the first few letters of their name. With HTC Hero, you can look at things through different perspectives.
Your inbox is not just a list of emails, but a catalog of conversations, a collection of notes flagged as important, and a document library of all your emails with attachments.
Your Album is not just the photos saved on your phone. It is also a gateway to online collections of you and your friends on Facebook or Flickr.

Search just about anything, anywhere on your HTC Hero.
The dedicated Search button combs through tweets in Twitter™, locates people in your contact list, finds emails in your inbox, searches through appointments in the calendar and very nearly finds needles in haystacks.

More Images and Specifications can be found online at http://www.htc.com/www/product/hero/specification.html

Release Dates TBC

Labels: Android, HTC, HTC Hero

O2 XDA® range expanded with the XDA® Ignito and XDA® Serra

O2 have announced the new additions to the popular XDA® handset range.

XDA® Ignito



A stylish and lightweight touch-screen device supporting the latest Windows Mobile® 6.1 technology, the Xda® Ignito incorporates all the features of a PDA with the added security of remote IT management.

Designed for…

Business customers who want the latest in technology and style from a mobile phone. Touch-screen control, remote IT security, 4GB internal memory, optimum video viewing and enhanced Microsoft® direct push email are just some of the key features of the Xda Ignito.

Xda Ignito is the first Xda to adopt the new UI design platform and hardware design style. It’s ultra slim design (the thinnest Xda to date), modern styling (competing directly with high end consumer handsets) and TouchFLO 3D ser interface (a consumer friendly short cut menu which sits on top of Windows Mobile) makes the Xda Ignito the perfect device for applications and viewing media and data with absolute clarity.

Features

* Windows Mobile 6.1 technology – open and edit Word and Excel documents and view PowerPoint
* Remote IT security (with Microsoft Exchange)
* HSDPA (supports up to 3.6mbps)
* 2.8 inch full colour, high resolution, VGA screen for optimum viewing
* TouchFlo 3D for touch-screen control
* Fast internet and email delivery with 3G and WLAN connectivity
* Supports Microsoft direct push email
* Only 11.5mm thick- an extremely lightweight, portable mobile device
* Key IT Security Features
* Access to GSM location services such as Google™ maps
* Easy set up wizard for both work and personal use
* Range of accessories available include car kit options, Bluetooth® headsets, Stereo PHF headset an in car charger.

Also available sim-free as the HTC Touch Diamond

XDA Serra
Soon to be released is the XDA Serra


A stylish and lightweight smartphone with Windows Mobile 6.1® for seamless business functionality and state of the art technology for intuitive and simple use.

Designed for…
Business customers who want the latest in technology and style from a mobile phone. Touch FLO 3D touch screen control, sliding QWERTY keyboard, optimum video viewing and enhanced Microsoft® direct push email are just some of the key features of the Xda Serra.

The Xda Serra provides flexibility to choose your desired input method by sliding out the QWERTY keyboard or using the intuitive Touch FlO 3D touch-screen. There is also an orientation sensor that allows the screen to switch for optimum viewing capability.
Containing many useful applications including an RSS feeder, an MP3 editor, a ZIP utility and business card recognition software the Xda Serra is more than just a smartphone.

Features

* Windows Mobile 6.1 technology – open andedit Word and Excel documents and view PowerPoint
* Remote IT security
* HSDPA, 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® 2.0
* 2.8 inch full colour, high resolution, VGA screen for optimum viewing
* Quad-Band functionality – operating on GPRS/EDGE wireless networks
* TouchFlo 3D for touch-screen control
* Supports Microsoft Direct Push Email
* Choice of sliding QWERTY keyboard and Touch FLO touchscreen
* MP3 Player
* Orientation Sensor
* Full internet browsing
* Range of accessories available include Car kit options, Bluetooth headsets, Stereo PHF headset, in car charger and Micro SD memory cards

Also available sim-free as the HTC Touch Diamond Pro
Update : Released 12th November

Labels: HTC, o2, O2 XDA

HTC Unveil the new Touch Diamond

Designed with style to compete with the Apple iphone, HTC reveals today the new addition to the Touch range - The Diamond.

Featuring an innovative 3d touch interface (TouchFLO 3D) to animate the access to your messages, photos, contacts, music and video etc.

HSDPA and HSUPA will provide data speeds up to 7.2 Mbps (in selected areas on selected networks) and give you true broadband on the move.

Windows Mobile 6.1 will provide corporate connectivity out of the box - and wifi gives an excellent alternative to mobile networks in the home, office or internationally.

Visit the Mini site for more details and images here

Available in the UK in the second half of 2008

Labels: HSDPA, HSUPA, HTC, HTC Touch Diamond

HTC Launch latest GPS PDA

Combining a lightweight design, large screen, sat-nav software and strong battery life, the P3470 sets a new standard in affordable smartphone, GPS-based devices. This will be one of the most compact PDA devices launched standing just 108mm tall.

• Quad-band GSM network for global roaming with GPRS/EDGE
• Built-in ultra sensitive SiRFstarIIITM GPS chip
• 2.8” LCD touch-sensitive screen display
• Direct Push Outlook® email
• Windows Mobile® 6 Professional
• Compact at H: 108mm, W: 58.3mm, D: 15.7mm and lightweight at only 122g
• 2.0 mega-pixel camera with macro mode lens
• Wheel navigation for easy zooming of maps

Labels: GPS, HTC, pda

HTC Release WM6 upgrade for S620 owners

As with previous upgrades register your handset and join the HTC e-club at http://europe.htc.com to download the new firmware for your handset.

With Windows Mobile® 6 you can:

* Stay connected to your e-mail, calendar, and contacts.
* Find what you need quickly and easily including business listings, maps and directions with Windows Mobile's powerful search and filtering features.
* Get access to corporate networks for data and documents stored on file shares and SharePoint sites.
* Fit your style with a variety of designs ranging from touch screen devices with slide out keyboards to sleek full-keyboard smartphones or compact flip phones.
* Now receive HTML e-mail support, improved security and encryption, greater integration with Microsoft products including direct SharePoint® intranet access from e-mail links and superior connectivity to Windows Vista™.

Labels: HTC, upgrade, WM6

HTC Release Windows Mobile 6 Upgrade for HTC 4350

This is a free upgrade to the Windows Mobile 6 operating system for HTC 4350 owners.

With Windows Mobile® 6 you can:

• Stay connected to your e-mail, calendar, and contacts.
• Be productive read and compose Microsoft Word Mobile files, make Microsoft Excel Mobile charts, and view Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
• Find what you need quickly and easily including business listings, maps and directions with Windows Mobile's powerful search and filtering features.
• Get access to corporate networks for data and documents stored on file shares and SharePoint sites.
• Fit your style with a variety of designs ranging from touch screen devices with slide out keyboards to sleek full-keyboard smartphones or compact flip phones.
• Now receive HTML e-mail support, improved security and encryption, greater integration with Microsoft products including direct SharePoint® intranet access from e-mail links and superior connectivity to Windows Vista™.

Labels: HTC, Windows Mobile

HTC release Windows Mobile 6 Upgrade for HTC Tytn

As promised HTC have released a free upgrade for legacy Windows Mobile 5 users - initially only available for the HTC Tytn, further releases for the other legacy Windows Mobile handsets such as the 3300,3600 and S620 will follow.

Register your handset via the HTC eclub for download details and the software itself - as this is a replacement for the entire operating system all data will be lost (please ensure you have backed up first using Activesync).

Original Press Release here
More on WM6 here
HTC eclub and support site here

Edit - More detail on Windows Mobile 6 - WM6.pdf

Labels: HTC, tytn, Windows Mobile

Coming soon from HTC - The HTC P4550 (Kaiser)

Soon to be released by HTC in the UK - the HTC P4550 (Kaiser) is again a full QWERTY keyboard sliding handset along the lines of the previous HTC Tytn. But as you can see from this image it takes the slide (spring-loaded!) on a new slant to improve the typing and viewing experience.

Features also include Quad-Band GSM, 3G and HSDPA, Wifi and built-in GPS with a Windows Mobile 6 operating system and 2.8 megapixel camera.

Release date is due for August - more detailed specifications will follow - please contact us for more details.

Update: Now marketed as the HTC Tytn II - available now to order

Labels: GPRS, GPS, HTC

HTC Launch 3.5 Inch (screen) WM5 Pocketpc

HTC P6300

Bringing back the screen size you may remember from such handsets as the O2 XDAII - this device is primarily marketed towards those Enterprise customers who have lamented the loss of a slightly larger screen (most new PDA's seem to feature screen sizes less than 3 inches). Typically the Enterprise customer will have a legacy application which was designed for older PDA's and has scaling difficulties with newer devices.

Other specifications remain at the basic level for a device of this kind.

• Windows Mobile® 5 Pocket PC Phone Edition, a flexible and robust platform for application development
• 3.5 inch screen
  
• Tri-band GSM/GPRS, Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® and IrDA for truly connected data centric uses.
• Expand your options with SDIO compatibility for additional memory, accessories and peripherals.
• Process applications faster and store more data with 256MB internal ROM and 400MHz processor.

Labels: HTC, pocketpc, WM5

HTC launches unique new touch-screen PocketPc

Let your fingers guide you with the HTC Touch™, the world’s first phone to feature intuitive touch screen technology.

Featuring an easy-to-use touch screen and simple user interface, the HTC Touch with TouchFLO™ makes quick dialing, navigation and selection a breeze. Stylish, smart and versatile, it opens up a world of media, communication and social interaction.

Surf the web with Internet Explorer®, send and receive email from accounts like Hotmail® and Yahoo!®. Chat on Messenger and send photos to your own web space through Windows Live™.

Optimised for entertainment, the HTC Touch lets you enjoy your favourite music and movie clips through the integrated media suite. You also have the versatility to upload, store and share your media files with microSD™ removable memory.

With Windows Mobile® 6, the HTC Touch also provides instant access to your Outlook® email and the most popular Microsoft® Office applications.

More details can be found here
Download the spec sheet in the Box app to the right

NOW AVAILABLE TO ORDER

Labels: HTC, pocketpc, Windows Mobile

HTC To offer Windows Mobile 6 upgrade to legacy handsets

Windows Mobile 6: upgrade strategy statement

Microsoft recently unveiled Windows Mobile® 6, which offers improved usability and more PC-like functionality than previously available. Enhancements include the ability to view emails in rich HTML format, and to manage emails quickly and easily through new shortcuts and new calendar views.

The HTC S710 is one of the first Windows Mobile® 6 devices to ship, and will be followed by a range of products based on the new operating system in the coming months. HTC is also offering WM6 upgrades for the most popular devices in its current range.

This includes recently launched “messaging” products, which will enjoy the greatest benefits of Windows Mobile 6, such as the HTC Advantage, the HTC TyTN, the HTC S620, and the HTC P4350.

The upgrade will also be available for the award-winning HTC P3300, plus some of our operator-branded devices. The upgrades will be rolled out from June, in line with our operator partners’ strategies.

You’ll be able to find the latest releases as they’re made available at: http://downloads.europe.htc.com

For more information on Windows Mobile 6 please click here

Addition : O2 UK are also looking to follow suit with Windows Mobile 6 upgrades available for the XDA Trion and XDA Orbit soon - This upgrade for O2 handsets has already been released by O2 Germany.

Update 2/7/7 : The June launch failed to appear - HTC have provisionally given the dates below

• (X7500/Advantage) - Middle of September
• (S620) - Middle of September
• (TyTN) - End of July
• (P4350) - End of July

Labels: HTC, Microsoft, upgrade

HTC Announce details of new Windows Vista portable device

The HTC Shift announced at the CTIA Wireless show.

This 7 inch screen, very portable pc operates under Windows Vista and offers 3G connectivity.

Similar to the HTC Advantage (which uses Windows Mobile OS) - this could be the answer for those looking for a more portable PC.

Key Features

* 7-inch widescreen display
* 30-gigabyte hard drive
* QWERTY keyboard
* Microsoft Vista Business OS
* Windows Media Player 11
* Tri-Band UMTS/HSDPA
* Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
* WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0

Launch details not yet available - detailed specifications to follow.

Labels: HTC, vista, windows

HTC Release details of innovative new handsets at 3GSM

HTC Advantage

The HTC Advantage X7500 is a powerful mobile office device that lets you work wherever and whenever you want. Powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile 5 with Direct Push Technology, you have the office tools you need while on the road. Attach the QWERTY keyboard and easily type up documents, e-mails, and messages. The huge 5-inch VGA display provides you more than enough room for surfing the Web and viewing documents. With its 3G, Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® 2.0 capabilities, you stay connected to the world.

The built-in 8GB hard drive gives you plenty of room to store your work and media files on the phone, and if that’s not enough, insert a miniSD™ card to add even more storage space. Use the TV Out feature to output contents on the screen onto an external display such as a Projector or TV when doing presentations or sharing photos. You can also print out documents by connecting to a Bluetooth® or network printer. Have your office with you wherever you are with the HTC Advantage X7500.

HTC P3350
For multimedia on the move the HTC P3350 has it all. It is a powerful mobile device that gives you all the PDA features you need - but so much more.



The HTC Media Hub gives you one-stop access to multimedia entertainment. Launch Audio Manager to manage and play music tracks, create playlists, and set music as ringtones. Listen to your favorite FM radio stations. You can even enhance the sound with the graphic equaliser. Add compatible Bluetooth® stereo headset and remote control accessories from HTC, and you have an all-round audio performer.



You will love the rich Internet and messaging experience even more with the 2.8 inch LCD touch screen. It is also perfect for viewing images you take with the 2 mega-pixel camera in portrait or landscape mode. Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 5.0 with Direct Push keeps you always up to date with your emails, calendar appointments, and contacts. Office Mobile and Internet Explorer® Mobil allow you to manage your Word and Excel files, and to do web browsing.

HTC S710
The HTC S710 is the most compact messaging phone with an auto-sliding QWERTY keyboard. It is the first smartphone powered by the new Windows Mobile® 6 Standard platform. This new platform provides genuine mobile Office Outlook® experience, greater control of Outlook® Mobile Calendar, better Internet Explorer® Mobile browsing experience and Windows Live™. It also offers greater interoperability with Exchange Server 2007 providing you with improved e-mail management (such as Fetch Mail and Set Flags), Out-of-Office assistant, and HTML e-mail viewing capabilities.



With the S710, manage your contacts and calls more efficiently with improved integration between Contacts and Call History. View Microsoft Office documents and PDF files on the go using the document viewers on the phone. Use Windows Live™ to chat with friends, search information, and send e-mail. With the S710, you stay connected and productive while on the move.

Release Dates to follow - full specifications can be found in The Box link on the right hand side of this page

Labels: HTC