In another move that rivals HTC’s own penchant for naming/renaming their handsets with more model-names than we care to (or can hope to) ever remember, T-Mobile has announced that they’ll be launching the HTC Touch Dual as the T-Mobile branded MDA Touch Plus. T-Mobile tends to rename their HTC-smartphones with the “MDA” moniker, so the renaming of the HTC Touch Dual isn’t all that surprising - it’s a pain to memorize all these model-names, but hey, at least T-Mobile kept the “Touch” branding.
As you’ll recall, the HTC Touch Dual (codename: Nike) is the keypad-toting, vertical-sliding sibling to the HTC Touch. T-Mobile has opted to go with the 16-key numeric keypad variant in favor of the semi-QWERTY, SureType-esque keyboard on the original HTC Touch Dual design reference - following in the footsteps of France’s Orange. And, as such, we’re expecting the T-Mobile MDA Touch Plus to rock that awesome TouchFLO interface, 400Mhz processor, 2.6 inch touchscreen display, 256MB ROM/128MB RAM, Bluetooth 2.0, and microSD card slot - all powered by Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional. We couldn’t find any reference to a WiFi connection in the T-Mobile MDA Touch Plus’s user-manual, so it looks like the WiFi goodness that the Japanese are enjoying won’t be making it’s way Stateside. But, we did find an interesting morsel of information regarding the T-Mobile MDA Touch Plus’s 3G aspirations!
It looks like T-Mobile may be prepping the HTC-sourced handset to pull duty as a 3G handset on their very own network! The user-manual makes mention of a GPRS/3G data connection - you’ll apparently “need a data plan to use T-Mobile’s GPRS/3G network.” We’re hearing that T-Mobile won’t be launching the MDA Touch Plus anytime soon (at least not in time for Santa to put it in his sleigh), so it’s possible that T-Mobile will have gone live with their 3G network by the time this device hits the US-market. We know the HTC Touch Dual is a 3G handset - so it’s 3G capabilities aren’t in question here. The question is, what frequency will the MDA Touch Plus (and by extension, T-Mobile) be using to surf the 3G airwaves? We’ve been expecting T-Mobile to launch their 3G network on the 1700Mhz band, but contradictory reports have indicated that T-Mobile will be hopping on the 850/1900Mhz spectrum for its 3G network. We’ll just have to wait and see what T-Mobile has in plan for its US 3G plans - good thing it won’t be too long of a wait.
PDF user-manual (warning: 6.4MB)
[Via: MoDaCo]
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Dec 02 2007, 05:20 PM
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