As we expected after the leaks last night, HTC has just dropped the good word on three brand new handsets at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The first up is the Android 2.1-powered HTC Legend, which is essentially a spiritual successor to the much-loved HTC Hero.
Outside of its slick new shell (which, by the way, is almost entirely one seamless piece of aluminum, similar to Apple’s uni-body Mac Books), the primary changes from the Hero to the Legend would be the upgrade to Android 2.1, the minor processor speed bump from 528 Mhz to 600, and the nifty optical trackpad that has replaced the trackball. The screen size and resolution remains the same (3.2 inches at 320×480), but they’ve bumped it up from the standard LCD to a gorgeous AMOLED screen.
Is it a massive upgrade from the Hero as it already exists? If we’re solely looking at the specs, no – but if you want something with a little more grumble under the hood, they’ve just announced one of those, as well.
Unfortunately for us folks in the US, the model they’re announcing today lacks support for US 3G. Expect it to launch in March throughout Europe and Asia.
Update: We just got the promo video for the HTC Legend – Check it out here.
UI is almost like Hero..what will be the price?
No word yet on price, afaik.
Ok..on the other hand optical trackpad is really a superb thing. I am using it on my BB 8520 and it is far better than using a trackball.
The HTC Legend is set to land in March 2010 according to the slides. Info: http://bit.ly/htc-legend-preview
expect that the price will be on the sub 700
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Looks nice.
Maybe its me but I think there are some really nice looking phone being released these days. When I look at them and then look at my iPhone 3GS, the 3GS just looks kinda ‘old fashioned’.
Apple have a lot of catching up to do now. If the next version is gonna be just a souped up 3GS then Apple are gonna face a lot of competition from HTC and android.
Call me an Apple fanboi, but I really hate HTC’s naming convention. Legend? Desire? What’s the difference beside the case? What’s their strategy? Who is their market? What’s the upgrade path from a pre-existing HTC phone? Is this effectively the Hero successor? Why not call it the Hero 2?
It almost seems as if they release a new phone every other month. Looks like they still follow the new OS = new phone model of mobile phone releases.
It may be a cultural thing. The laptop shopping experience on an American site (Apple, Dell, HP, etc) is dramatically different compared to the alphabet soup of 1000 seemingly unorganised choices on Asian sites (Lenovo, Asus, Acer, etc).
“Unfortunately for us folks in the US, the model they’re announcing today lacks support for US 3G. Expect it to launch in March throughout Europe and Asia.”
What was the point of this, I got slightly excited only to be let down at the end.
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No, I don’t think so and I don’t think it should pose a problem.
According to their policy, you are eligible for their affiliation program, and I don’t see any reason for them not allowing you to link to them… and vice-versa. Just because it’s an edu site… no big deal.
Thanks for the advice, Sean!
Just make sure that if you buy an HTC Android phone in Asia that it comes with Google’s Market Place.
OMG! Aluminium unibody touch phone? Apple will be slapping themselves for not coming out with THAT first!!! :D