Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Sprint to Release the HTC Vogue (a.k.a. HTC Touch)
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 03:20 PM
"Forgive us, Sprint, as we have maligned you without cause. The American CDMA carrier is set to receive one of the most talked about Windows Mobile devices of the year. Revealed during Sprint’s annual day-long technology summit, the drop hasn’t been made official yet, but it was revealed to a number of employees, execs, and other attendees. The naming convention is a bit weird, as HTC’s technical designation for the CDMA version of the Touch is the HTC Vogue. That said, Sprint has decided to re-brand the Vogue as the Sprint Touch. Full circle, we suppose."
Not exactly surprising news, but it's good to see HTC leveraging the design of the Touch into as many carrier-compatible versions as they can. They've done a bit more than that though, introducing a 400 mhz processor over the chug-tastic 200 mhz CPU in the GSM version of the Touch. EV-DO connectivity upgradeable to Rev. A gives some blazing speed, and a comment I read in the thread stated that the Touch will have a larger on-screen keyboard (looks like someone listened to customer feedback). If you're a Sprint customer, this looks like a heck of a phone - as long as you don't need a physical keyboard.
Not exactly surprising news, but it's good to see HTC leveraging the design of the Touch into as many carrier-compatible versions as they can. They've done a bit more than that though, introducing a 400 mhz processor over the chug-tastic 200 mhz CPU in the GSM version of the Touch. EV-DO connectivity upgradeable to Rev. A gives some blazing speed, and a comment I read in the thread stated that the Touch will have a larger on-screen keyboard (looks like someone listened to customer feedback). If you're a Sprint customer, this looks like a heck of a phone - as long as you don't need a physical keyboard.
