We sat down with one of Qualcomm's fancy new
reference designs today, the Anchorage QWERTY slider phone. Let's be perfectly clear -- the
Inventec-crafted device won't ever see the light of day in this exact form, Qualcomm just needed some eye candy with which to demonstrate its new Snapdragon platform. The chipset features a highly specialized and customized ARM-based core and graphics from ATI -- both
actually licensed this time around, we're told -- and tries to take advantage of as many technologies that Snapdragon offers as possible: MediaFLO support, blazing clock speeds (1GHz to be exact), high resolutions (SVGA here), and the list goes on. Snapdragon-powered devices should hit retail from HTC and Samsung by the end of the year. Click on for pics, just don't get too attached since this is as close as you'll ever get to it, alright?
posted Jan 9th 2008 7:05PM
*sigh*...sooo pretty
I can't wait to see what HTC does with this platform.
Man, oh man.
there is no way this isnt going to get the "iphone replica just with qwerty" remarks
Yeah what with people thinking apple invented the rounded rectangle a large screen only thing kind of unique about the iphone is the interface the Synaptics Onyx concept came before iphone and still people call it a knock-off its crazy I designed a device like the iphon years ago and won a contest with the design and I doubt I was the first to design a device like that. The iphone/ipod touch is beutiful though.
And it plays CSI too!
HTC makes the best phones out there. I've been through many hones, and I've had my AT&T Tilt since mid-november, it's the best phone I've ever had. And of course, HTC makes it.
Yes, but instead of making the phone longer .. they made it wider .. get rid of the huge margin on the sides of the LCD (refer iPhone).
ummmm... its a good thing this isn't the final form this product will take, because its a blatant knockoff of the OQO ultramobile...
http://www.oqo.com/
which is awesome, by the way. too bad its not a cellphone (too big at 5")
It's not really all that close to the Oqo 2, the keyboard alone is very different in terms of the button and layout. Besides many other devices before this have had big glass/glossy black screens.
Too bad it wont be a actual product.. they couldve gone to distributing their own products like as HTC decided to do. I'd get that in a heart beat if the internal specs were tweaked abit. (128-256MB Ram, US 3G, and fully working video driver support!! )
[see xda-dev for the lowdown on the Kaisar scam htc has with no video driver support]
Android! Pleeeease!
I was just getting ready to say it...I'll say it anyway...
Snapdragon & Android..FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was just getting ready to say it...I'll say it anyway...
Snapdragon & Android..FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sure, with Java you would see that nice 1 GHz processor work like a 100 MHz one.
Motorola has tried Linux + Java phones, and failed miserably.
If HTC does come out with this platform, let's hope that they supply the proper video drivers. Their omission of the video drivers in the Tilt has left me with a sour taste in my mouth and a laggy Tilt.
that thing looks amazing. Hopefully sprint will have a device similar to that by this summer when my contract is up. I'd like that phone with GPS built in pleaaaaaaaaaase
Summer? Doubtful. I would say early- or mid-2009 is more likely.
This + HTC + Microsoft's new touchscreen GUI = phone of my dreams.
Are you guys sure they will be manufactured by HTC? Inventec and HTC are competitors, and Inventec made the prototype...
I think you are confused.
Snapdragon is a platform made by Qualcomm. That's like a specification of how the phone should be built. It is not this phone. This phone is a manifestation of the Snapdragon platform (which was made by Inventec) that is being used as a reference design.
HTC uses Qualcomm platforms in their phones, so yes, HTC will probably develop a phone in the near-ish future based on this.