14 DAY TRIAL // Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation was rumored not too long ago to plan on releasing to the market a new handset running under Google's Android operating system, namely the HTC Dragon. The first reports on this device showed that we'd soon have the chance to enjoy a really powerful Android phone, powered by a 1GHz processor, supposedly a Snapdragon.
However, the most recent rumors on the device unveil the fact that, while the 1GHz chipset will still be included with the HTC Dragon, it will not come from Qualcomm. It will actually be an OMAP 3640 chipset from Texas Instruments, based on an ARMv7 Cortex A8 CPU. According to a recent article on PCGeecks, we're still waiting for one of the fastest devices around, only that it will feature another processor than originally expected.
Moreover, the news site also suggests that the yet unannounced HTC Dragon will come to the Chinese market only as a CDMA device. It seems that the Taiwan-based handset vendor will release the phone only in China, and it is testing it with the OMAP chipset on board. Moreover, apparently the Dragon will have a similar fate to HTC Qilin, which was reported back in August to head to China as Dopod T8388, based on an OMAP3 chipset and sporting GSM and TD-SCDMA connectivity.
There are no details here that the HTC Dragon will become available in other markets around the world, but, based on the fact that HTC Qilin was said to be the one and only HTC Whitestone that went to Verizon Wireless, there are great chances that it will hit other countries too. Hopefully, it will still include the 1GHz processor, be it a Qualcomm or a TI one. Since the combination between such a CPU and Google's Android looks like a winner, the HTC Dragon should be able to prove the most wanted Android device on the market, in case it turns out to be real.