Sunday, August 20, 2006
Cingular 8525 (HTC Hermes) Pics Leaked, Sports PTT?
Posted by Janak Parekh in "HARDWARE" @ 08:30 PM
Here's some exciting and promising GSM Pocket PC news for American customers: not only have pictures of Cingular's Hermes device, called the "8525", been leaked, they suggest that PTT (push-to-talk) has been added. 8O Modaco suggests that it's the Hermes 100 model, instead of the 200 model we've already seen a lot of. (An even higher, press-quality image is on XDA-Developers; another interesting fact is that the 100 seems to omit a forward-facing camera.)
Previous rumors have suggested a late-summer-to-fall timeframe, which makes sense, but PTT would come as a complete surprise to me. I doubt WM has built-in support for it, although I guess an OEM could add it. In any case, if Cingular places this device at the right price point, I might be tempted to finally jump the crippled-EVDO-ship. ;)
Previous rumors have suggested a late-summer-to-fall timeframe, which makes sense, but PTT would come as a complete surprise to me. I doubt WM has built-in support for it, although I guess an OEM could add it. In any case, if Cingular places this device at the right price point, I might be tempted to finally jump the crippled-EVDO-ship. ;)
