Is this the HTC Firestone?

June 23, 2009 | By Surur

Some pictures of a new Windows Mobile handset from HTC has just surfaced. The device is said to be the HTC Firestone, and its main feature is said to be its 8 megapixel camera. The device appears to bear a lot of styling related to the HTC Touch Diamond or even the HTC Max 4G and may very well be a photoshop of these devices.

If however we accept the device and leak at face value (and HTC is an extremely leaky ship) the device will feature a 3.6 inch WVGA screen, a long awaited 3.5 mm headphone jack, be powered by a Qualcomm 8250 600 Mhz processor and run Windows Mobile 6.5.

We wont have too long to wait to see if its true or not – according to the leak the smartphone is set for an August 2009 release.

See the full specs below

- Phone: GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS900, UMTS2100.
-GSM and HSDPA connectivity.
-Windows Mobile 6.5.
- Screen 3.6 inch WVGA touchscreen display transflective TFT, 65536 scales.
- CPU: speed 600Mhz Qualcomm 8250 processor.
- Memory: 256MB RAM and 512 MB ROM.
- Slot: Micro SD.
-Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR.
-Wireless LAN: 802.11b, 802.11g.
-AGPS.
- G Sensor.
- Headphones: 3.5mm.
- Main Camera: 8 million pixels
-August 2009.

Source: hiteck.sanook.com

Thanks drphysx in our comment section for the tip.

About Surur

Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

Tagged htc, htc firestone, windows mobile 6.5

Peter

Interesting that they would make another phone that looks like the old Touch line. 3.5mm is nice, too bad that didn’t make its way into the Touch Pro 2.
joni

LOVE IT!!
Rami

I decalare it a Photoshop. It looks nothing like the diamond 2 or the touch pro 2, looks more like htc’s 2008 devices. The honeycomb interface shown is old, the new start menu looks nothing like it.

FAKE I DECLARE, FAKE
TerSoth

this is just a photoshop job. the most obvious thing is the htc logo with the little arrow thing. htc has dropped this symbol from their logo on the new generation of devices (even the boot up animation has dropped the symbol). plus what about the zoom bar? htc made a big deal about it, its hard to believe they would not include it in one of their new devices (although the diamond and pro had the zoom wheel and the hd did not)
Rami

To add to what I said above, all htc device’s in 2009 have a zoom bar below the screen. This one does not.

enough said
TerSoth

oh i forgot to mention that some of htc’s newr software requires the zoom bar since the album 3.0 no longer supports gestures, such as drawing a circle to zoom in. so it has to have a zoom bar
Peter

Also, would they move back to those HORRIBLE capacitive buttons? What an idiotic idea, good thing the latest ones have a real button under each button. I hate the DPAD on my FUZE, but I think I would rather have it then none like these new devices. Why not put a trackball or a mouse like Samsung puts in a lot of their phones? Or like the new Acer phone?
NuShrike

Another device that hates NA. Thanks HTC.
mweb586

HAHA. We’re all getting to the point where if Acer or Sammy were to make the exact same phones we would all flock to them just because the name HTC is so demonizing!
drphysx

Of course this is not a real photo, but it could very well be a rendering by HTC.

If you look at the older pics of the Firestone, there’s no zoom bar either. Also, the design is pretty much like the Max 4G.
Rami

@drphysx that’s our point. This supposed device looks like HTC’s 2008 models. The HTC devices we have seen so far this year have dropped that shinny black plastic look. Grey is in on all their devices, their is a zoom bar, a windows flag button and their is a notification’s led plus light sensor. This render lack’s everthing, it is a shinny black, no zoom bar, no windows flag button, and no notifaction led like on the touch diamond 2.

NuShrike

It’s nice WM7 requires the Windows flag button which HTC has conveniently decided is redundant (as well as other buttons). It really helps to differentiate between HTC unusable One and Co drift, and MS pulling them back in line.

nuke1

If the specs of this device are true, then we have a breakthrough people!

Qualcomm 8250 actually refers to Qualcomm QSD8250, the ‘SD’ standing for Snapdragon. HTC is Back In Business if this leak is true.

Although it looks very much like my Diamond, this device is on par with the iPhone in terms of hardware now, and I’m NOT complaining.

The hardware should be enough to make any WM user fall for it, really!

nuke1

Referring to my previous post, I meant iPhone 3G S, not simply iPhone.

It has an A8 Cortex processor which tears apart the old ARM11 even at 600Mhz. Put it this way, it’s better than the Samsung’s 800Mhz processor in practical use.

Paul

I Bet HTC will still not have a Flash.
efjay

Still has nothing on the Omnia II. Where is the onboard storage, AMOLED screen, camera flash? Seems some WM fans are becoming like iphone fans, blindly going for the HTC name and fawning over anything they produce rather than evaluating the device. Apart from the megapixel count, how is this better than the Omnia II?

efjay

Forgot the Omnia II also has a better processor. HTC needs to go back to the drawing board and produce something different rather than incremental upgrades to existing hardware.

nuke1

Nope. The Snapdragon SoC pwns any chance the Samsung SPC SoC had on the Omnia II. With an A8 Cortex processor and capable of OpenGLES 2.0 on top of that, the Omnia II with its ARM11 800Mhz stands little chance. Unfortunately. Having said that, the Omnia II is also capable of OpenGLES 2.0 but not 720p HD decode (as I understand).

That alone is enough for me to tilt the scales.

I was growing completely disenfranchised with HTC before this ‘leak’ and an August release- so I hope it’s real.

Oh yes, it also has an 8MP camera, where the Sammy has 5MP. Though video is also currently in Sammy’s favour being at D1 (720×480) @ 30FPS, where the HTC has no spec noted as yet.

Ruben

They better have sped up their cameras.

The camera on my TP is the worst thing I have ever used in my life. Its so slow I try to forget I have it so I don’t try to use it and increase the chance of tossing my phone at the floor.

Michael

This is mostly fake. Microsoft announced many times that all the new WM phones will have a start button (a physical one) and this device doen’t have a physical start button.

Thanks
drphysx

The Omnia II doesn’t have a Windows button either. Again, these are not real photos of final products, so the icons on the buttons may change.

HTC’s ’2008′ design is not that different from the ’2009′ design. These pictures are very similar to the lesser quality renderings from the previously leaked HTC 2009 lineup. On the previously leaked pictures, there’s no zoom bar and no Windows button either.

See the previously leaked rendering of the Firestone here, which is definitely not fake and also does not show a zoom bar or Windows button: http://images.intomobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/htc-firestone.jpg
Jack The Reeper

8mp cam with no flash get rid of the camera and put a magnetic sensor
http://lionc.net lion

the picture is probably real..
take a look at the photo leaked earlier

http://www.itechnews.net/2009/03/05/htc-2009-lineup-specs/
http://www.grabspecialsale.com nongpla

so far HTC is one of my fevorite… phone..:)
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