14 DAY TRIAL // Taiwanese mobile-phone maker HTC Corporation is the first handset vendor to have launched on the market a device powered by Google's Android operating system, and has since delivered a few more such smartphones, with a wide range of Android handsets already expected to arrive in 2010. Among them, it seems, we should also see a successor of the popular HTC Hero.
According to the latest news around the Internet, an HTC executive has already confirmed the work on an HTC Hero successor, and it seems that the company will unveil it at the Mobile World Congress in February, next year. This is indeed good news for enthusiasts, yet it still remains to be seen what the handset in question will be all about, since no details have been unveiled up to this moment.
However, some info on a future HTC Android phone did emerge into the wild. Most of you should know by now that the list of future HTC Android devices has recently leaked, and that, among them, we were able to spot an HTC Espresso, which has just gotten a series of specifications delivered to the web. Nothing is yet official, and no photos with it emerged, yet it seems that HTC might be on its way to delivering yet another side-sliding QWERTY device to the market.
The said HTC Espresso should come with an ARMv6 chip, clocked at 528MHz, and is said to be a GSM version of the HTC Hero that also includes a landscape QWERTY. Moreover, a hint towards a 320 x 480-pixel screen resolution also reminds of the Hero, at least this is what an HTC profile found by Tweakers.net shows.
It's no secret that HTC will launch more Android-based mobile phones during the next year, but it is nice to learn some unofficial details on them, that's for sure. However, while the future availability of a Hero successor seems to be already nailed down, it remains to be seen what Espresso will actually become. Watch this space for more updates on the matter.