Excalibur blurry camphoned
By Ryan Block 
posted Aug 2nd 2006 8:07AM
posted Aug 2nd 2006 8:07AM
P.S. -Yes, that's a T-Mobile theme, hint, hint.
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I want one.
Very nice. I must admit, I didn't think that last picture was real. Blurry pics added credibility. The irony.
Pllzzz oh plzzz come to Sprint, I've had their HTC and its great and all but It just wasn't good enough for me. This one looks promising.. Oh cellphone gods make my dream come true!
Man I love HTC. Can't wait to see this one in person. Not the prettiest phone on the planet, but if the features are there...
T-Mobile background and color scheme. Interesting.
that thing is ugly. "Q-killer" riiiiiiiiiiiight. Will tmobile offer this with there 19 buck unlimited data like the sk3?
keyboard looks small. i hated tmobile enough to switch to a verizon treo 700p but i miss that great keyboard.
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It would make my year if this hit Sprint by holiday time. They are just sucking when it comes to getting hot phones, which is terribly compounded by the fact that they're a great carrier otherwise.
So, we know it'll have a VGA screen, Windows Mobile 2005, and WiFi. There's a lot we don't know, though. Is that a touch screen? How many megapixels is the camera? What Bluetooth version does it support? What kind of flash memory does it use? How much RAM does it have? Most important of all: when is it coming out, and how much does it cost?
to joe and david --
unless there is a CDMA version coming out (which there very well could be - i know nothing about this phone i've just seen the two posts on here recently), it won't be coming to sprint anytime soon.
May have to trade in my SDA for one of these when they come out.
yeah well ill buy one unlocked and throw it on cingular the wifi just made me want it im gunna ditch my hope of a lennon for this lil thing is it really 150 bucks like engadget mobile said i wont drop more the 300 on this thing
These shots must be leaks from the networks, I can't see why else they're universally blurry. But still, looks like a nice crack at the blackberry market
I have a challenge for all seeking to release information about a product early.
Challenge:
Learn to use a camera well enough to not take a crap picture.
It has become the standard now that every picture must be blurry. If it were a clear image I think everyone might question the validity.
An old eBay trick - take blurry photos of ugly items and give them optimistic descriptions ... you'd think macro mode isn't that hard to use!
there is alot of wasted space between the keyboard and screen.
Most likely:
microSD if any flash expansion
320x240 screen resolution
1.3-2.0 MP camera
Wishes:
MiniSD
VGA screen
2.0 MP camera with VGA 30fps video recording
Stereo Bluetooth
"unless there is a CDMA version coming out (which there very well could be - i know nothing about this phone i've just seen the two posts on here recently), it won't be coming to sprint anytime soon."
Oh, for sure - but at least HTC has a history of releasing CDMA variants (hello PPC-6700!).
That looks about as sexy as a Toughbook.
and by sexy, I mean ugly.
As I posted on engadget mobile - if the Nokia E70 and N80 have 352 x 416 and the 904SH has VGA, the Excalibur might as well look good next to them in the markets where they coexist.
The pictures are always blurry because the camerphone taking the picture's got months of greaze and lint covering the lens. I don't understand how all these manufacturers can push for better and better cameras, then still leave the lens hanging out in the breeze for all the munge and fingerprints.
Other sites are reporting that this one has a QVGA display, which makes sense as the only higher resolutions than QVGA that Windows Mobile supports are 480x480 and VGA.
So what does this offer over the QVGA, WiFi, quad-band, 3G, Blackberry/Microsoft Activesync-compatible Nokia E61 that's already out? Why would I wait for the Excalibur to be released?
Hate to say this but having Wifi along is a reason i'd wait for this i wanted a motoq but no wifi killed it for me... and the fact it lacked a gsm model.
To the person who asked: no, this won't have a touchscreen. It's running WM5 for Smartphone - not Pocket PC.
"So what does this offer over the QVGA, WiFi, quad-band, 3G, Blackberry/Microsoft Activesync-compatible Nokia E61 that's already out? Why would I wait for the Excalibur to be released?"
A far better operating system.
WM5 has a heavily established software base with more freeware than S60 3rd edition, which does not work with earlier S60 programs. That said, S60 3rd editions looks a lot more slick than previous S60's.
I hope we get to see a different 'shell' or 'casing' for this from what I've seen it doesn't look to good. Although the specs are nice for a smartphone, this may become a candidate for my 2nd phone... if it comes out in Asia [maybe under dopod?]