O2 Xda Cosmo among the first HTC's Excaliburs

By now we're all pretty well versed in what we can expect from HTC's Excalibur in the many incarnations it's due to begin taking, but it looks like O2 Germany will be among the first to have the honor. Dubbed the Xda Cosmo, this slim if bulbous looking portable doesn't yet appear to have a date affixed to O2's intentions for release in Deutschland. It does look like the marketing materials are well underway though, so we hope it shouldn't be too much longer before you'll pull this sword from the stone.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 28th 2006 2:57AM]

This dont look the prettiest to me. Anyway, my must haves is:

1) touchscreen OR a small touchpad/clickwheel (square?)
2) voice interface (who needs to type or scroll through lists/directories when there's text to speech)

[xbit Posted Aug 28th 2006 3:55AM]

It still looks incredibly ugly. Put it next to a Nokis E61, Sony Ericsson M600 or Motorola Q and people are going to laugh.

HTC have created a nice little niche for themselves but they're really going to need to work on their deisgns if they want to be a big player.

[TechCF Posted Aug 28th 2006 4:12AM]

I agree, it looks ugly as hell. HTC, you need to make somthing that is as sleek as the Qtek/HTC S200!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 28th 2006 6:40AM]

My eyes my eyes, burning kill designer and the one that approved this @!#$@!#$ Ugly thing.........

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 28th 2006 9:08AM]

One of the ugliest phones ever. Looks like it should be a Nextel PDA.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 28th 2006 12:52PM]

I'd love to see them consider SLIMMER phones FULL WM5 phones -not just smartphones to make them slimmer. This was posted recently and it really got my attention
- http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/tech-faith-wireless-sells-501-under-ubiquio-brand - I'm not familiar with the company but I wasn't familiar with UTStarr/HTC when I got my 6600. Besides being much much slimmer I would guess it has a better BT unit/stack only because I don't think I've ever tried a phone with a worse BT stack than the 6700. Correctiom - OK - I'll admit my 6600 from the same company was probably worse.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 28th 2006 12:55PM]

One more thing - if you look at the UBiQUio above as people mentioned - HTC really could use someone to help improve the looks of their design.

I'd also be happy if they made a unit with a full screen and no keys. I think there are people who would prefer the unit with the keys and those who would benefit more from the larger screen. I do far less typing and far more viewing although I do occasionally modify documents and do some typing the stylus is fine. I have the 6700 and rarely use the keyboard although it is a nice keyboard.