HTC gets real with the HTC Touch II (Nike) TouchFLO smartphone - DoCoMo’s HTC HT1100
By Will Park on Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 12:39 pm PST In Announcements, Devices, DoCoMo, HTC
It’s finally here folks. After much speculation and a handful of spy pics, HTC has finally gone official with their HTC P5500 Touch II (codenamed “Nike”) Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional smartphone. Unfortunately for those residing within US borders, the HTC Nike is making its debut on Japan’s DoCoMo network, renamed (just like carriers love to do) as the HTC HT1100.
How could HTC possibly improve on the original HTC Touch smartphone - enough to justify an HTC Touch II? Well, we’re glad you asked. The new HTC P5500 Nike Touch II (whew, that’s a lot of names) is actually HTC’s first foray into the world of vertical sliders. With a numeric keypad hidden under that vertically slidingtouchscreen, we can say that this is one sweet, sweet piece of kit. And the HTC Nike P5500 lives up to its “Touch II” namesake by rocking the TouchFLO interface that was debuted on the HTC Touch not long ago.
But it doesn’t stop there. On top of that snazzy vertical slide, the DoCoMo HT1100 Touch II rocks both HSDPA (for use on Japan’s FOMA network) and GSM radios (for international roaming), making this thing a bona fide 3G handset. What else? Well, how about a 2.6 inch touchscreen, 802.11a/b/g WiFi, SIP support, Bluetooth, 2 megapixel camera with a 1 megapixel front-facing shooter, and microSD card slot - all wrapped up in a 112 x 51 x 16.9mm, 130g package, powered by Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional.
We’re glad HTC decided to do away with the awkward, square shape of the original HTC P5500 Nike that we saw in that leaked product roadmap. Now, we just need it to come Stateside in September, that would be nice.
[Via: Akihabara News]
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September 1st, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Hi Will:
Just a quick fact check on your HT1100 specs:
“802.11a/b/g WiFi, SIP support..”
The HTC unit does not have WiFi or SIP, see the link below, that would be on the F1100 by Fujitsu announced at same DoCoMo press conference instead.
http://www.nttdocomo.com/pr/files/20070830_attachment.pdf
cheers,
Lars
September 2nd, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Thanks for the heads-up Lars. From what I can see in that document, it does indeed support SIP and has WiFi a/b/g
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