During the 3GSM expo, HTC has released three handsets everyone noticed and welcomed with their arms opened. There was a fourth one that escaped unnoticed at the moment due to the flood of devices coming under the spotlight everyday.

The P3400 is the culprit I'm writing about here and it has been spotted today in the FCC big pile of devices under the name of HTC Gene together with a photo the FCC has made for us (at the same low quality standard we are used to).

It seems nobody knows what the Gene is all about and, apart from the info delivered by the FCC, very few people know the details behind the ugly duckling in the new series HTC has released at the 3GSM fair.

As I have already said here, after HTC has published its spec sheet on their website (now they erased all info as if the device was never unveiled nor they know anything about it), the P3400, now aka Gene, has a Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 OS, running on a TI OMAP850 200 MHz processor, a 2.8 inch TFT QVGA touchscreen display, Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, 128 MB of ROM and 64 MB of RAM memory, an UMTS 850 MHz radio, GPRS and EDGE data transfer technologies, SD/SDIO and MMC memory expansion card slots that will probably be the thing to calm down everyone not happy about the lack of built-in memory, a 2 megapixel digital camera with CMOS sensor and a maximum resolution of 1600x1200 pixels.

That is about all of what Gene is capable of and, if you're thinking it looks very dull (I'm very sure you do) and very similar to most of the HTC models we already know, that UMTS radio might sweeten the deal just a little bit so you can give it a second thought.

There is one thing troubling me: why have the HTC pulled out this handset out of their website? Are they going to make changes to its spec sheet?

It could be a very good chance so, just in case, let me remind you that everything related to the spec sheet of the HTC P3400 is due to change at its manufacturer's discretion.

Don't blame me if they add in a little more memory or take out the UMTS radio because it's their decision. Not mine!