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HTC Patents new clamshell smartphone design

February 5, 2010 | By Surur

HTC’s engineers have been called hinge nerds, and have brought many iconic designs to market, including the Tilt of the Tilt and the amazing hinge of the HTC Universal.

Now they have patent a new hinge design that will make opening your clamshell smartphone a snap.

HTC Thoth and Omni show up on carrier XML page

October 4, 2009 | By l3v5y

Leo PB81100

When I saw some of the latest Leo pictures, I couldn’t help but notice the model ID of the device “PB81100”. Naturally, I switched over to Google, and found a myriad of results for “PB81100” none of which were helpful! Searching for “HTC PB81100” was much more successful, bringing up a service called Cloud9-Mobile which appears to be a cheap roaming provider for UK people.

For the “PB81100” which I guess has to be the Leo, it supports the following bands:

GSM 1800,GSM 1900,GSM 900,GSM850 (GSM800),HSDPA,HSUPA,WCDMA FDD Band I,WCDMA FDD Band VIII

After a little more digging in a large XML, I found “OMNI100”, supporting

GSM 1800,GSM 1900,GSM 900,GSM850 (GSM800),WCDMA FDD

And the THOT100 and THOT110 which have to be the Thoth from those leaked roadmaps. The Thoth supports

GSM 1800,GSM 1900,GSM 900,GSM850 (GSM800),HSDPA,HSUPA,WCDMA FDD Band I,WCDMA FDD Band II,WCDMA FDD Band V

Which appears to be just about every band you’ve heard of 2100MHz 1900MHz and 850MHz which includes the sought after US 3G.

There are a few more devices which I’ve not heard of, (so I plugged them in to PDAdb.net) SUPE100/SUPE110 (which could be the SuperStar), MEMP100 (probably that keyboarded Android Memphis), FORE100 (HTC Foreseer, cancelled), CONV100/CONV110 (T-Mobile Shadow 2009), CLIC100/CLIC110 (HTC Click). Less well known devices are the CORA100 (HTC CORAL?), HTC CAIR100 (HTC Cairo?) HTC PLATXXX (HTC Platinum?) and HTC PILO100 (HTC Pilot?)

These are all from here.

Now the presence of these handsets in this file does not mean the device will be released. This is of course especially true of the HTC Omni, with had been floating around in limbo for years now. The XML is however pretty up to date, and should give some indication of what’s to come.

If any of our readers have any more details, drop us a line on our contact page

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HTC Touch HD Pro rumours starting

October 19, 2008 | By Surur

The HTC Touch HD has not even been released yet (all info points to the 6th November) but already the Touch HD Pro speculation have started.

There is already some confirmation from knowledgeable sources that the device does exist, but so far no details are forthcoming. Based on the Touch Diamond/Touch Pro release pair, we can expect the specs to be pretty similar, but with the Touch HD Pro being slightly better specced.

The mockup above appears attractive enough, but there are many people wishing for a release of the long-awaited clamshell HTC Omni, whose specs (4inch WVGA screen, 528 Mhz processor), even in 2007, are pretty comparable to the HTC Touch HD being released now.

With barely 2 months separating the HTC Touch Diamond and Touch Pro, its likely we would not have to wait much longer to find out a lot more soon.

Whats on your wish list for the HTC Touch HD Pro? Let us know in the comments.

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