HTC Shift in person, in a glass case

As expected, HTC was showing off a Shift UMPC today at CTIA. Unfortunately for us it was behind a glass case, but you can get a good look at the early prototype in our gallery. Check it out!

HTC Shift in person, in a glass case

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2007 10:58PM]

That looks so frigging awesome. Im drooling on myself

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2007 11:12PM]

So far I have owned 5 HTC products (phones) and this UMPC looks really damn tasty. I hope these guys are doing well enough they don't get bought out by a competitor and have their product line destroyed as a result.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2007 11:27PM]

when these things are capable of gaming and have battery life that can last more than a few hours WHILE gaming i just might consider getting one

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 27th 2007 2:00AM]

we've got one of these sitting in the tmobile store near my house. is this thing news in america??

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 27th 2007 2:57AM]

gotrice90: That's probably the HTC Advantage in the T-mo store, this thing here is prototype of HTC's new UMPC :)

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 27th 2007 3:24PM]

Indeed gotrice90. The HTC Advantage runs windows Mobile on an ARM-class CPU with 5" screen and 8GB HDD, while the Shift that is presented here runs Vista on a 1.2 Ghz VIA CPU with 7" touch screen and a 30 GB HDD.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 27th 2007 6:09PM]

Too bad UMPCs are so expensive when the hardware isn't all that great (compared to laptops). I guess you're paying that hefty price tag not for portability, but ultra portability. However, if I had the money to throw away, I'd definitely throw it at this.