HTC Qilin – HTC Whitestone goes East
For all the talk about China Mobile and Android (and their so-called OPhone implementation) one would never think a Windows Mobile handset would win flagship status for the 500 million subscriber strong carrier. I guess we would be wrong, as the carrier has just announced the HTC Qilin, which bears a striking resemblance to renders we have seen to Verizon’s HTC WhiteStone and being sold under their Dopod subsidiary, has achieved that status.
Dopod CEO Dennis Chen said the Qilin handset is the first result of China Mobile’s $7 million in subsidies to encourage TD-SCDMA handset development. Dopod has expanded investment in manpower and funding towards TD-SCDMA R&D and will release numerous high-end TD-SDCMA handsets next year.
The Windows Mobile 6.5 handset is pretty well specced, as can be seen below:
Model: Dopod T8388 (HTC Qilin)
Type: PPC (non-QWERTY keyboard)
Platform: Windows Mobile 6.5
CPU: TI OMAP 3430 600MHz (Same as the Palm Pre and iPhone 3GS)
ROM: 512MB
RAM: 256MB
Display: 3.6 “WVGA (480×800)
Frequency: GSM; GPRS; EDGE; TD-SCDMA
Network: Wi-Fi 802.11g
GPS: SiRF (GPS / AGPS)
Main Camera: 5 million pixels; auto-focus camera, front: VGA
Features: gravity sensors; light sensor; proximity sensor; CMMB mobile TV
The handset is expected to reach the market by December 2009.
Source:Marbridge consulting
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OMG an HTC without a QualCrap processor!
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Peter Reply:
August 24th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
AND SiRF GPS! HTC has finally realized that people are sick of the crap they have been pushing for so long! Too bad this realization wasn't BEFORE the TP2 was made. Now I will have to go yet another year with this crap processor before getting a phone with a nice one.
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good news! hope it gets a world wide release! htc leo is too big for my liking
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