HTC plans 25 smartphones for 2009
AFTER MAKING $4.6 billion from their smartphones last year, High Tech Computers has decided to make at least 25 more in 2009.
While the dark satanic rumour mill predicted that HTC would be flogging a lot of models this year the most optimistic hacks were saying about ten.
There are currently 25 photos of HTC smartphone products shoved on the outfit's websites and, while they are not accompanied by any technical information, it does seem to indicate the outfit plans to release them.
Among these 25 models is one called Topaz, which appears to be the successor dell HTC Touch Diamond mobile phone. There is another called Rhodium, which seems to be a HTC Touch HD with a QWERTY keyboard.
Some of the phones are tagged to exclusive deals with regional outfits such as Sprint, DoCoMo, T-Mobile and Vodafone so might not be seen anywhere else in the world. µ
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I'm sure HTC wouldn't be doing so well if more people were made aware of the slow performance of their devices, all due to HTC's lack of ability to create graphics drivers.
They are SLOOOW.
I have a Touch Pro (that has a Qualcomm MSM7500 chip inside) and the 3D performance is a disaster to say the least. It should be able to push out 4M poly/sec but can barely manage 100k poly/sec. Less than 2.5% of what it is capable of!
Check out:
The forum on www.xda-developers.com for more detailed info.
Check out: http://www.htcclassaction.org/ for more info... this issue is still a problem on their newer devices. Their is a bounty for someone who can get the devices working (as HTC appears to not be too worried about it).
Let me help.
a href="http://www.htcclassaction.org" http://www.htcclassaction.org /a
and
a href="http://www.xda-developers.com" http://www.xda-developers.com /a
In reply to comments above: is it that important to most users how many polygons a phone's graphics processor can push?
As long as the device is snappy enough to use for sending SMS & emails, browsing the web, looking up contacts, GPS nav etc, then it's all good!
My old Kaiser is quick enough, and the Touch HD I've tested is nice and snappy with basic ROM. Won't be great for 3D games, but the majority of users don't need that, and HTC's devices offer a lot that they do need. Hence the massive sales & optimistic outlook.
Windows Mobile 6.1 is just a terrible operating system, and full of obvious bugs which should've been fixed a long time ago. Android running on the HTC Touch is far faster and smoother that WM, so its not hardware.
I didn't see any mention of the nVidia powered phone (APX-2500) due out this year. I have to appologize to the above poster seeing as how this phone is sporting Windows Mobile and will offer the most powerful 3D phone experience yet.