p2pnet - rss feed: The Touch pips iPhone at the post
p2pnet.net news:- Twenty-three days before the iPhone is due for release, rival High Tech Computer has beaten hype-meister Apple to the draw.
Enter the Touch, a tasty looking Windows Mobile 6 unit with a one-touch screen giving users instant access to emails, contacts and appointments, and it’s being billed as the world’s first touch phone.
The Touch features a 3D look, 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, a 2-megapixel camera, 128MB of ROM, 64MB of RAM, a 1GB microSD card, tri-band GSM, EDGE, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, and Windows Mobile 6.
It also has a built-in microphone and 3-in-1 speaker and supports AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, WMA, WAV, QCELP, MPEG4, AMR-NB and AMR-WB.
But it’s not all bad news for Apple. The Touch is currently available only in the UK at €449 (today, about $607), although it’ll be sold just about everywhere except in North America within the month.
Does that mean it’ll be showing up on eBay any time now?
Maybe not, because price aside, the US version will support GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks on three GSM bands (900, 1800, and 1900 MHz), “but that means you can’t use it as a phone in Europe or the rest of the world, or on high-speed HSDPA networks (HSDPA is the much-faster successor to EDGE on GSM-based networks),” notes PC World.
Also See:
PC World - HTC Introduces Touchy-Feely Cell Phone, June 5, 2007
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