Excalibur blurry camphoned

Oh come on, shots like these wouldn't be fun if they weren't blurry. The chap who sent this one in, Indianboy, mentioned that WiFi was definitely a go on the Excalibur, as well as the Q-rivaling jog strip thing, and a resolution greater -- yes, greater -- than QVGA. Why you'd really need greater than QVGA resolution on a Smartphone is beyond us, but who are we to argue with HTC?

P.S. -Yes, that's a T-Mobile theme, hint, hint.

[Tyler @ Aug 2nd 2006 8:12AM]

I want one.

[Lix @ Aug 2nd 2006 8:19AM]

Very nice. I must admit, I didn't think that last picture was real. Blurry pics added credibility. The irony.

[Joe @ Aug 2nd 2006 8:21AM]

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!

[Patrick @ Aug 2nd 2006 8:22AM]

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...

[Alex @ Aug 2nd 2006 8:47AM]

T-Mobile background and color scheme. Interesting.

[G Money @ Aug 2nd 2006 8:55AM]

that thing is ugly. "Q-killer" riiiiiiiiiiiight. Will tmobile offer this with there 19 buck unlimited data like the sk3?

[Butter @ Aug 2nd 2006 8:58AM]

keyboard looks small. i hated tmobile enough to switch to a verizon treo 700p but i miss that great keyboard.
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[David @ Aug 2nd 2006 8:59AM]

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?

[max @ Aug 2nd 2006 9:08AM]

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.

[Chris @ Aug 2nd 2006 9:15AM]

May have to trade in my SDA for one of these when they come out.

[korey @ Aug 2nd 2006 9:22AM]

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

[furby @ Aug 2nd 2006 9:44AM]

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

[Jason Tsongas @ Aug 2nd 2006 10:37AM]

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.

[J KIM @ Aug 2nd 2006 10:46AM]

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!

[lou @ Aug 2nd 2006 10:47AM]

there is alot of wasted space between the keyboard and screen.

[Jason @ Aug 2nd 2006 10:56AM]

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

[David @ Aug 2nd 2006 11:26AM]

"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!).

[Senor Pantalones @ Aug 2nd 2006 11:35AM]

That looks about as sexy as a Toughbook.

and by sexy, I mean ugly.

[Ypoknons @ Aug 2nd 2006 12:40PM]

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.

[Mike Miller @ Aug 2nd 2006 12:48PM]

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.

[eight @ Aug 2nd 2006 2:36PM]

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?

[Chris @ Aug 2nd 2006 4:25PM]

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.

[Covert @ Aug 2nd 2006 7:24PM]

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.

[Ypocaramel @ Aug 2nd 2006 9:16PM]

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.

[bnycastro @ Aug 4th 2006 2:01AM]

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?]