14 DAY TRIAL // Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is back in the leaked info area. Most of you should be already accustomed with learning that the company's plans have been unveiled to the world over the Internet, and now it is time to have a look at what HTC has in store for us for the first half of the next year.
A recently leaked Android 2.1 ROM for the HTC Hero has unveiled some of the handset vendor's plans for the Android segment of the market, yet the new info shows what it has in mind in the Windows Mobile area too. We're talking here HTC’s (entire) portfolio for Q1 and Q2 2010, which has been presented in Vienna in October during a global meeting, and which has now emerged into the wild via the XDA-Developers forum.
The phones in question are arranged into four categories, Design, Performance, Social and Productivity, and will come to the market powered either by Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system (such as the Photon, Trophy and Tera), or by Google's Android platform (the Legend, Salsa, Tide, Buzz and Bravo). With images, specs and all the rest leaked, it only remains to sit back an enjoy.
The leaked shots available with the handsets will unveil their expected launch time frame too, and here's a quick presentation for each of them. First of all, we'll take a look at the HTC Bravo, included in the Performance category, which will boast a Snapdragon QSD 8250 1GHz CPU, and will come with 720p HD video recording. A 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED screen, a 16GB MicroSD card and a 1400 mAh battery will also be included in the package when the phone arrives in April next year.
The rest of HTC's Android devices will be included in the Design and Lifestyle and the Social categories. The former will see the Legend and Salsa, expected to land in March and June 2010, respectively. The latter will have the Tide and Buzz added to it sometime in April and May 2010, respectively.
As for the future HTC mobile phones that will run under the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, the Photon, Trophy and Tera, they will all be included in the company's Productivity category. It seems that the first two of them are expected to arrive sometime in April and May 2010, respectively, though there are no details on Tera's arrival as of yet.
