Good News: HTC to launch great new phone. Bad News: WM not included

**dannzeman** · #1 (**permalink**) 01-11-2009, 10:38 PM

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According to a senior executive of Telstra, HTC is going to launch a new touch phone that will be a direct competitor to iPhone and the newly released Palm Pre. In fact, Telstra’s executive after reviewing the Palm Pre at CES, said that the expected HTC phone is “better and more functional”.

Quoting the source (smarthouse.com) of this story:

The new touch phone has been developed using a combination of the Google Android operating system and Linux based software written by HTC. The screen is believed to be bigger than current offerings from HTC.

Executives from Telstra who had met with Palm at the CES Show in Las Vegas to review their new Pre offering said that the new phone from HTC was “better and more functional” they said.

“We have seen both and we believe that the new HTC phone will be a real competitor to the iPhone and the Pre which at this stage looks nice but is still not delivered to market”.

HTC executives who are at the show but not exhibiting have refused to comment on their new phone which is expected in the second quarter of 2009.

I honestly don’t know what to make out of this story. Should we expect just a Touch HD loaded with Android or something completely new? Is HTC keeping under wraps a similar Windows Mobile device? Could HTC’s flagship device for 2009, be using Android instead of Windows Mobile?

Hopefully all this questions (and many more) will be answered at Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona next month. For now though, you can tell us your thoughts using a comment.

**Malatesta** · #2 (**permalink**) 01-12-2009, 04:51 AM

I love this quote:

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Executives from Telstra who had met with Palm at the CES Show in Las Vegas to review their new Pre offering said that the new phone from HTC was “better and more functional” they said.

“We have seen both and we believe that the new HTC phone will be a real competitor to the iPhone and the Pre which at this stage looks nice but is still not delivered to market”

Because this mystey HTC device has "delivered to market"?

Palm's Pre has a lot more going for it, including a reportedly great SDK (that trumps iPhone and Android), name recognition, an exclusive carrier deal and we have actually seen it, lol.

Don't get me wrong, if anyone, HTC can certainly come up with something great. But...and it's a BIG but, until they show it...it's all hype and BS.

dabackwoodboy · #3 (**permalink**) 01-12-2009, 04:55 AM

hmmm very intresting cant wait to see the outcome

Magoo_215 · #4 (**permalink**) 01-12-2009, 05:25 AM

Touch HD with a kryboard maybe? That would be coo.

Hovthagawd · #5 (**permalink**) 01-12-2009, 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Malatesta

until they show it...it's all hype and BS.

My Thoughts exactly really silly to compare a device against something very few to noone has actually seen.

bboyneko · #6 (**permalink**) 01-12-2009, 07:41 AM

its probably going to be a touch hd with a new OS, or at least very similar to it.

**dannzeman** · #7 (**permalink**) 01-12-2009, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by bboyneko

its probably going to be a touch hd with a new OS, or at least very similar to it.

Thats really what it sounds like, but what is HTC gonna do, start getting into the OS business and create another one? I think that would be foolish, especially if its not like Palm's WebOS that uses AJAX, CSS, ect., stuff developers already know.
But the fact that HTC went to all the trouble to get TouchFlo to cover up Windows Mobile kinda makes me think they want to create their own OS.

Sure does make for an exciting mobile market though.

**schettj** · #8 (**permalink**) 01-12-2009, 01:41 PM

The HTC spokesperson continued sotto-voice "Sadly, as this is an HTC device, it will include at least one fatal hardware flaw that can never be fixed, three key hardware features unsupported by current and all future software updates, and a human factors design that could only work for a three-armed orangutan. It will have a really cool name, however, like finger or digit."

**No1ustad** · #9 (**permalink**) 01-12-2009, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by schettj

The HTC spokesperson continued sotto-voice "Sadly, as this is an HTC device, it will include at least one fatal hardware flaw that can never be fixed, three key hardware features unsupported by current and all future software updates, and a human factors design that could only work for a three-armed orangutan. It will have a really cool name, however, like finger or digit."

you forgot to add: "... and everyone will keep buying it anyway..."

**dannzeman** · #10 (**permalink**) 01-13-2009, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by No1ustad

you forgot to add: "... and everyone will keep buying it anyway..."

Well if its as sexy as the Touch HD, then yeah, you can add one to my bill too.