HTC TyTn II P4550 Kaiser could rock HSUPA
By Will Park on Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 at 2:48 PM PST In AT&T, Devices, HTC, Orange, Rumors, Technologies, Windows Mobile
With the recent release of the uber-smartphone from HTC, we’re squirming in our seats for AT&T (NYSE: T) to bring us the HTC Kaiser TyTn II P4550 as the AT&T Tilt. The HTC Kaiser will be the most bad-ass smartphone on the market - with integrated GPS, quad-band GSM with tri-band UMTS (HSDPA makes this thing 3.5G), 3 megapixel autofocus camera, Bluetooth 2.0, 256MB ROM/128MB RAM, WiFi b/g, 2.8 inch display, Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional, and of course, that trick tilt-up keyboard, it’s not hard to see why.
One thing that was missing, however, was the inclusion of HSUPA. We kind of expected the mother of all smartphones to get HSUPA high-speed upload speeds of 1.4Mbps to complement the HSDPA connectivity, but the launch details didn’t make any mention of such luck. However, it seems there might still be some HSUPA goodies in the cards. French carrier Orange has released an HSUPA upgrade roadmap for it’s handset lineup - and it seems to indicate that the HTC TyTn II Kaiser P4550 will support HSUPA data connections once Orange’s infrastructure is up to speed, as it were.
How great would it be to get HSUPA upload-speeds with our AT&T Tilt? It’s nice to dream.
[Via: Unwired View]
Granted, HSUPA will be something that’s available in the future. But unless I’ve missed an announcement - two questions:
- Where is it available now?
- What places, and what carriers in the US have announced anything resembling a plan for HSUPA?
You haven’t missed a thing. The HSUPA speculation was based on Orange’s infrastructure upgrades to handle HSUPA in the future.
It’s nice to dream because that’s all it is for us - a dream.
HSUPA has been soft launched on AT&T in the US. The first aircard has already been released and waiting on shipping.