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T-Mobile Wing takes flight
T-Mobile has just announced that the company’s new Wing smartphone is available, coming in a blue soft-touch exterior, a color touchscreen display, and a full QWERTY keyboard that slides out to reveal itself. The Wing is developed by HTC (as with the majority of smartphones boasting the same form factor these days), but strangely enough, it is not a 3G phone. You can pick one up from T-Mobile stores if you’re interested. Specifications of the Wing are available after the jump.
• Smartphone with large external touch screen and stylus
• Slide out screen with full QWERTY keypad
• Soft touch exterior with deep blue color
• WiFi and EDGE support
• Full HTML web browsing
• Support for Microsoft Office Mobile
• Windows Live for Windows Mobile including Live Messenger, Live Hotmail, Live Search, and Live Spaces
• Direct Push e-mail available with Exchange Server 2003 SP2 or later. Windows Live Hotmail also supports push mail
• T-Mobile myFaves support
• Voice dialing, voice commands, and voice recorder
• Bluetooth support
• 2.0 megapixel digital camera with 8x digital zoom
• Video capture and playback music and video player
• microSD card slot
• 2.8″ diagonal, 65k color screen with 240 x 320 resolution
• Measures 2.3 x 4.3 x 0.7 inches and weighs 6 oz
• Supports quad band GSM (850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz)
• Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0
• 30% smaller than the T-Mobile MDA device
What is the world’s best kept secret? I suppose that would be a subjective question, with a myriad of answers for your picking if you were to take into consideration the different industries and niches, but where smartphones are concerned, especially with the HTC banner involved, then it would be the HTC One X9 being the next handset from the company. A set of photos of the alleged device has surfaced, and in these photos, it has more or less confirmed the overall design of the device – including its SIM card slot, power and volume button locations.
Other rumored hardware specifications include a 5.5” Full HD display, a MediaTek MT6795 SoC, either 2GB or 3GB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory, a 3,000mAh battery, a 13MP shooter at the back with OIS, and an UltraPixel front camera. All that we have to do now is to sit tight and wait for an official announcement concerning the hardware, and it is good to go.
Now here is a new handset (in a sense) that hails from the folks over at HTC, although it does not really pay homage to HTC’s motto of “Here’s To Change”. Apparently, the HTC One E9s Dual SIM arrived on the HTC India website with nary an official announcement, and do not be fooled by its name since it is far less an improvement over the HTC One E9 as opposed to the HTC Desire 820, taking into consideration this device is thicker, heavier, has a slower chipset, a smaller battery, and a lower resolution 720p display as opposed to the Full HD display on the HTC One E9.
Other hardware specifications of the HTC One E9s Dual SIM include 16GB of internal memory, a 13MP shooter at the back, a 4MP camera in front, 2GB RAM, LTE connectivity and as mentioned earlier, Dual SIM capability. Oh yes, throw in stereo speakers and Dolby audio, and you’ve got a “new” model.
We do know that the HTC One A9 is well on its way, but as to exactly when will it roll out to the masses? We do not really know, but what we do know is this – there will be an October 20th event that will be held by HTC, and chances are pretty high that will be the date on which HTC rolls out their new HTC One handset. Right here, right now, we will just have to make do with a bunch of leaked HTC One A9 photos, where this smartphone does seem to resemble an iPhone 6 where its design and form factor are concerned.
Of course, there is also a quick look at HTC’s very own Sense UI that will run on top of the Android operating system, in addition to rounded sides of an aluminum unibody and a microUSB 2.0 port – I guess that rules out the Type-C port that other handset manufacturers are starting to incorporate. Other than that, it looks like a loudspeaker resides on the bottom, with a lack of stereo speakers on the front. Check out the photo gallery after the jump.