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HTC to drop Dopod brand?

July 6, 2010 | By Surur

The Dopod brand may be on its way out. HTC has long been trading under the Dopod brand in China. Now with HTC’s brand in ascendance world wide it seems the Taiwanese company is ready to trade the Dopod brand for its own soon.

Shanghai Daily reports that HTC will start delivering handsets in China by the end of the month or soon after carrying the HTC brand, according to an unnamed industry source.

The Dopod brand has been quite successful in China, with most users associating it with a local company like ZTE, rather than a huge multi-national company such as HTC. International brands have traditionally done poorly in the Chinese market. The move to drop the brand is a reversal of recent statements, where HTC said they would prefer to retain it.

Read more on the move at Shanghai Daily here.

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HTC Oboe shows Windows Mobile 6.5 still lives

June 14, 2010 | By Surur

HTC Oboe

It seems Windows Mobile 6.5 has not quite seen its sunset yet. With Windows Phone 7 coming in as soon as 3 months, HTC is still working on releasing Windows Mobile 6.5 devices, it seems largely in China.

The HTC Oboe is, according to Xmoo, is a slate device with Windows Mobile 6.5.3. The device is destined for China and according to other reports has an 8 megapixel camera.

Would any of our readers like to see this device in their local markets? Let us know below.

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Dopod roadmap confirms HVGA Windows Mobile 6.5 phone

February 7, 2010 | By Surur

AndroidCentral managed to come across this device roadmap for HTC’s subsidiary Dopod, who operates in China.

Besides showing a number of Android devices, it confirms a HVGA windows Mobile phone set to be released at the end of Q2 2010. This is likely the Chinese version of the HTC Photon, a smaller version of the HTC HD2.

Read more at AndroidCentral here, including speculation of an Android HTC HD2 being changed back to Windows Mobile.

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HTC talks Windows Mobile 7, Android and China

January 16, 2010 | By Surur

It seems its not just LG that cant keep quiet about Windows Mobile 7. At the launch of the HTC T8388 smartphone in Beijing the CEO of Dopod, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HTC, spoke about the difficulties Windows Mobile 7 will have in China.

Mr. Chen Jinghong noted that HTC was involved in the development of Windows Mobile 7, but that the exact release date was up to Microsoft. The current release of Windows Mobile 7 will however not have built-in Chinese support, which is not ideal for China. He said Dopod however still intended to release phones with the OS as soon as Microsoft officially released the OS.

He also noted that HTC intends to launch 15 smartphones in China this year, and the proportion between Windows Mobile and Android will be judged by the market itself.

HTC intended to launch their own HTC Club software store for China, primarily for their Android phones, as it was not legal to access the off-shore hosted Android marketplace from within China. He did not anticipate Google’s departure from China would have much impact on Android in the market.

HTC Qilin – HTC Imagio for China

November 1, 2009 | By Surur

We have written about the HTC Qilin before. The device is similar to the HTC Imagio, but features the new generation ARM Cortext processor similar to the Pre and iPhone.

The smartphone with its 3.6 inch screen features 3G on China’s proprietary TD-SCDMA protocol and will be sold by HTC’s subsidiary Dopod there.

Like the Imagio it also features mobile TV using China’s CMMB mobile TV service.

See the full specs below:

Full specifications:

CPU: TI OMAP3430 600 MHz
512 MB ROM / 256 MB RAM
3.6-inch WVGA touch screen
Windows Mobile 6.5
WiFi
GPS
5 megapixel camera
CMMB mobile TV
Bluetooth

While the device is pretty well specified, the model shown off looks rather less attractive than the sleek Imagio, which is surprising as they are produced by the same company.

Click for larger versions

Source: Sina.com.cn via Slashphone.com

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First official WM 6.5 device launching in July

June 1, 2009 | By Surur

Here’s a nice bit of good news. It has been speculated recently that the earliest we will see Windows Mobile 6.5 devices would be in Q4 2009, even around November. It now seems that time table has accelerated, and we may see the first device to launch with Windows Mobile 6.5 in less than 2 months, in July 2009.

The smartphone would be a Chinese device branded by Dopod, a subsidiary of HTC, and would be pretty well specified. The Tachi, (AKA Twin from our HTC Roadmap leak from January this year) will have dual radio’s (CDMA and GSM) and a VGA screen.

The full specs are:

2.8-inch screen

WiFi

Bluetooth 2.0

3.1MP camera with auto-focus

Front facing camera

MicroSD

This news is pretty good, and one can only hope all devices launched after July this year will come with WM 6.5 build in from the start.

Source: WMExperts.com

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