T-Mobile rolls out HTC Athena as "Ameo"

Move over, Universal, there's a new sheriff in town. The Athena from HTC is finally starting to make some public appearances in carrier livery, and we've gotta say, T-Mobile Pink is suiting this thing just fine. Specs for the new reigning king of HTC's expansive Windows Mobile lineup include a 5-inch VGA display, an 8GB hard drive to supplement any Flash you might have stowed in the miniSD slot, on-board GPS, quadband GSM plus HSDPA (sorry, yanks -- 2100MHz only), 3 megapixel camera, an XScale core clipping right along at 624MHz, and -- get this -- three styli in the box, two traditional and one multi-function pen. T-Mobile's European division will get this as an exclusive for a few weeks as the "Ameo," at which point we'd imagine a wider European release is in order. American availability, as always, is an open question.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 23rd 2007 3:38PM]

How much is it and where can I get one?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 23rd 2007 4:08PM]

I really don't like this, I much prefer the attached keyboard of the Universal.

I think HTC made a big mistake with this design.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 23rd 2007 10:16PM]

Keep in mind, at this point anyway, this is a rumor. T-Mobile has not made this announcement (yet).

Pocketinfo.nl doesn't make this very clear, but there's nothing about the Ameo on the T-Mobile web site linked to, just a promise that it will be there soon.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 24th 2007 7:46AM]

This is just about perfect, but if the Omni comes out and it has GPS onboard, I think I'll go for the smaller option...

...I hate waiting though!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 24th 2007 9:33AM]

A 5" VGA screen and a 624 MHz processor sounds to me like it will be eating up battery unbelievably fast and producing a fair bit of heat.

Any ideas on how they are countering both of these problems?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 24th 2007 11:17AM]

As long as it cost under $500, why would you not buy this instead of an Applephone? A 5" VGA screen makes a pretty video player...

[Mr Mario Posted Jan 24th 2007 4:25PM]

Wait wait wait!

Doesn't Tmobile have Fav5 going on now? Why does the left softkey read "Favoriteten"? Is someone playing tricks on us or is that something that TMob will use to counter Alltel's Fav10???

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 25th 2007 5:06AM]

#7 you read it wrong.

It says "Favorieten" Which means Favourites (Or Favorites in your yankee speak).

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 25th 2007 5:08AM]

^hhmmm, what was that? My name is Chillin not "Chi".

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2007 2:12PM]

This is just about perfect, but if the Omni comes out and it has GPS onboard, I think I'll go for the smaller option...

...I hate waiting though!


...... Check the specs, the Ameo has built in GPS aswel

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 23rd 2007 5:12PM]

Why sorry yanks 2100? isn't t-mo going to roll out their 3g network using that freq.? that and 1700 if I remember correctly.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 28th 2007 3:49AM]

cual es el precio del HTC Athena as "Ameo" y donde se solicta gracias