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[Pondrew]

Grainy photocopied pictures have been emerging over the last week or so of this eagerly anticipated device. Set to build on the success of the HTC Magician (currently selling well as the I-Mate Jam, T-Mobile MDA Compact, Orange SPV M500, etc), the HTC Wizard will apparently build on the concept by adding a sideways sliding QWERTY keypad and wifi along with Windows Mobile 2005.

Finally real pictures are filtering out apparently showing the forthcoming HTC Wizard in the flesh.

Found in this article at idnes.cz.

More pics of the device in operation, badged as the QTEK 9100 here at www.windowsmobile.no

And finally, as pointed out by Beersoft earlier, msmobiles.com has put up the expected specs of the forthcoming device here

EDIT: New video footage of the Qtek 9100 here at www.windowsmobile.no

Edited by Pondrew, 02 August 2005 - 10:55 PM.

[Pondrew]

Erm. Am I the only one who's noticed the devices in the two pics are of different construction?!

Look at the screens, one with a large screen partly blacked out while the other has the silver body continue right to the screens viewable area...  :shock:

Spose it would help if we knew which brand the top photo was being marketed as. Is that a T-Mobile symbol top right?

[thelondonthing]

The two images are very obviously the same device; the only distinction on the main fascia between the two is the different coloured fascia plate surrounding the screen.  Additionally the device with the black fascia plate - which does indeed appear to have a T-Zones symbol on it - has a slightly modified keyboard; the landscape soft keys are positioned directly beneath their onscreen labels, whereas on the QTEK model, the landscape soft keys on the keyboard are positioned and opposite ends of the keyboard itself.

[awarner]

Look interesting, and I always prefer landscape format rather than portrait.

[Pondrew]

Funnily enough I'd never been bothered about landscape until the last week or so. Then I found Modaco is far easier to read in Pocket Internet Explorer in that mode, and that Windows Media Player with album art looks cooler in landscape!  8)

[Pondrew]

Oh, and I see what you mean thelondonthing about the softkeys. Think I'm starting to prefer the MDA Compact 2 (assuming this is what T-Mobile will call it)!

[Pondrew]

At the risk of confusing peeps more then they already are (yes I know, I should stop while I'm behind!), check out this alternative HTC Pocket PC Phone. The article seems to distinguish between them as model 100 and model 200 of the HTC Wizard  :shock:



Again taken from the article at idnes.cz (link as in the 1st post).

[tonijj]

Well, looks cool, a bit better than the Motorola Q Razr, but then I read the msmobile news which stated that it only has 195Mhz, and Skype demands 400!! Why making a phone where the hardware is not up to today's demand, the rest sounds great, but they gotta get at better processor plugged in there. Maybe the prize goes to the Razr then

[confused and hungover]

OMAP850 195 MHz. must be a typo. surely.

[jonhitch]

Only 200MHz processor - that's very poor! I'll be keeping a look out for the HTC Galaxy (same but without the keyboard!)

Thanks all for posting this information - very interesting!

[tonijj]

confused and hungover, on Jul 28 2005, 07:08, said:

OMAP850 195 MHz. must be a typo. surely.

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Not according to msmobiles, they are usually correct and liable. But I hope you're right c&H.

[confused and hungover]

tonijj, on Jul 28 2005, 09:22, said:

Not according to msmobiles, they are usually correct and liable. But I hope you're right c&H.

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maybe it's the OMAP195 850mhz....

pre release specs aren't always correct, don't forget orange said the M500 was over a meter long, even one week before UK release...

[mupwangle]

The TI OMAP 200Mhz processor has been mentioned every time the wizard has been discussed.

[confused and hungover]

mupwangle, on Jul 28 2005, 10:02, said:

The TI OMAP 200Mhz processor has been mentioned every time the wizard has been discussed.

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just seems strange they would release such an advanced device then skimp on the processor speed...
maybe they're doing it just to stop people using skype with that in built WiFi?

[tonijj]

confused and hungover, on Jul 28 2005, 08:07, said:

just seems strange they would release such an advanced device then skimp on the processor speed...
maybe they're doing it just to stop people using skype with that in built WiFi?

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That might actually be true, think HTC got a lot of pressure from the carriers not to release any "Skype-friendly" phones, just speculating, but that might have contributed to the weaker processor.

See HERE for processor info. However, they mention in the article that this is an early test device and that the specs and design aren't final!

Edited by tonijj, 28 July 2005 - 08:21 AM.

[Pondrew]

tonijj, on Jul 28 2005, 08:22, said:

Not according to msmobiles, they are usually correct and liable. But I hope you're right c&H.

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With all due respect to msmobiles, they have been wrong before.  

[atlaz]

Any idea if/when this might make it onto retail (Orange UK specifically)?

[tonijj]

Pondrew, on Jul 28 2005, 11:29, said:

With all due respect to msmobiles, they have been wrong before. 

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Note: -----> "usually"  

[mupwangle]

>>Any idea if/when this might make it onto retail (Orange UK specifically)?

If the M500 is anything to go by - I reckon Autumn 2007.

[thelondonthing]

Interestingly, it now seems that there are three different versions in total - the 100, 110 and 200.  We've seen two of them already in this thread, but the third version - the 110, I believe - does without a camera.

All very confusing.  

None of them are particularly attractive though.  I have to say, however, that while I'm fairly impressed by the specs of this new handset family - apart from the processor of course - I'm still flabbergasted that we've seen and heard practically nothing about 3G on Windows Mobile handsets.  The one and only handset is the SPV M5000/HTC Universal - but it's enormous alongside the petite and stylish 3G handsets being pumped out by the likes of Nokia.  

Why bother spitting out an SPV C550 and SPV C600 (and variants) with such similar specs in such close succession - given that the C600 is expected in the next few months - and now the Wizard as well, when Windows' presence in the 3G handset market is non-existent, and looks to be confined to one handset at best well into next year?

Ooh, it gets my goat, it does.