Okay, so we know of
at least two HTC devices codenamed "Neon" that the friendly bureaucrats up in the FCC have been forced to go through with a fine-tooth comb. Now we have a third -- the descriptively-named NEON300 -- and this might be the money version. As we've pointed out before, the Neon series appears to represent a line of
Touches with different guts for different carriers and locales, and the NEON300 possesses something that's music to the ears of the yanks in the audience: HSDPA on the 850 and 1900MHz bands. Along with the recently-announced
US Touch Dual, this should be quite a gem in, say, AT&T's lineup -- and with
Sprint and
Verizon both rocking the same device, can they really afford to turn the other cheek?
Update: Pictures of the unit being poked and prodded can be found deep within the test documentation, and sadly, it turns out this is nothing more than the US Touch Dual after all. But come on HTC, seriously, you
know you want to make a straight-up Touch with North American HSDPA, too. Thanks, uofmrapper1!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Flashpoint @ Apr 17th 2008 11:27AM
Slow News Days.
Isn't anything spectacular happening?
Gaz @ Apr 17th 2008 1:00PM
Does it come with scales and a matching dinosaur head?
Marty @ Apr 17th 2008 11:29AM
Meanwhile, in other news... T Mobile continues to sit around with a thumb up their ass, banking on Blackberrys and Sidekicks and no 3G.
rob.kehr @ Apr 17th 2008 1:07PM
i remember seeing something the other night that tmob has some city-wide wifi plan too? and promised 3g before summer... like they promised before 08... a little behind the curve
BlowURmindBowel @ Apr 17th 2008 1:09PM
Yeah, I bought a Tilt/Kaiser/TyTN II and hacked it to use on T-Mobile, seems like kind of a waste in-so-far as G3, but I really wanted it for the more robust CPU and GPS... (and I was upgrading from a T-Mob original MDA/Wizard which is a chunk of crap in comparison to the Tilt!)
T-Mob needs go grow some stones and throw their hat into the G3 ring. I haven't really had any complaints about EDGE in my area, but G3 and getting actual "good" speeds capable of honestly supporting a mobile laptop connection would be really sweet!
boe @ Apr 17th 2008 11:38AM
I really like my Touch phone. I'm looking forward to the GPS update.
The one thing I'd really like to change is to add a flash back. The cameras are useless on about 95% of phones in my opinion but the flash on the mogul, 6700 etc can be used as flashlights with no more drain on the battery than a phone call. I used my old WM phones as flashlights all the time. Hopefully in the next phone HTC makes it will have
GPS enabled - not some subscription based AGPS thing
a VGA screen - not QVGA - but VGA
better battery life
A flash -so it can be used as a flashlight.
Better BT- clean sound, better distance - just like on free phones
HTC has come a ways since my first WM phone but I think it is time they move forward a bit more - the flash and the BT seem like easy fixes - the only big move for them would be a small vga unit with good battery life - they've made VGA for years just no small units.
kev @ Apr 17th 2008 11:43AM
HTC tends to add numeric suffixes to its devices, and they pretty cryptic. Case in point, the HTC Hermes:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Versions
Kinda hard to find any similarities with each of the HERM100/200/300 releases.
Chad @ Apr 17th 2008 11:45AM
What's the point if it doesn't run OS X?
{waits for humor devoid to "not get it" and reply with hilariously unfunny rebuttals}
riggs @ Apr 17th 2008 12:41PM
hilariously unfunny?
Jeremy @ Apr 17th 2008 11:51AM
This is for the Touch Dual. .go to [Warning: PDF link!!] https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/oet/forms/blobs/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=929013&native_or_pdf=pdf and scroll down to pg ~150.
pictures of the touch dual
Jeremy @ Apr 17th 2008 12:00PM
oohh pg 154 is even better! Didn't get that far before i posted.
SimbaDogg @ Apr 17th 2008 12:32PM
yeah, before u release any new phones...how bout you fix my drivers for my tilt/kaisers first...please, that'd be the right thing to do
Dan Davis @ Apr 17th 2008 12:38PM
I hope these Neons last longer than mine, which is in the shop getting the serpentine belt tensioner replaced. Oh, wait...
BlowURmindBowel @ Apr 17th 2008 12:55PM
Buy a Tilt on ebay, hack the crap out of it, call it good...
(das what I did) ;)
john @ Apr 17th 2008 1:25PM
Wait, does it have US 3G, or AT&T 3G? Sure, T-Mo hasn't deployed theirs yet, but they do have devices that are ready for their UMTS spectrum (not completely vaporware). Seems to me that to call it "US 3G" it has to be ready for both.
So, which is it: is this a US 3G device that will work with T-Mo's UMTS ... or is it not a US 3G device, and just an AT&T 3G device?
RC @ Apr 17th 2008 3:05PM
It has AT&T 3G which is referred to as North American 3G because the main GSM operators in the United States, Canada, and Mexico ALL use WCDMA 850/1900 for their bands of 3G, which is why more phones across the world are coming out on those bands.
Meanwhile, T-Mobile USA will be operating on WCDMA 1700, which very few phones are capable of.
Ian @ Apr 17th 2008 1:51PM
Just starting to look at HSDPA in the US. Can anyone tell me what the HSDPA frequencies that will be used in Europe verse the US? From the story it sounds like HSDPA is on the 850 and 1900MHz bands in the US, is that true for both t-mobile and AT&T? Just wondering how easy it is going to be to get a phone that works round the world.
RC @ Apr 17th 2008 3:12PM
AT&T and T-Mobile USA don't use the same frequencies for 3G. AT&T uses WCDMA 850/1900 for UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA, while T-Mobile will use WCDMA 1700 for their initial UMTS rollout (may even be HSDPA according to some.)
In Europe, the standard for 3G is generally WCDMA 2100. You can buy phones right now in Europe, Asian, and America (such as Nokias, Sony Ericssons, HTCs) that are "World 3G-capable" meaning they have WCDMA 850/1900/2100; however, they will not work on T-Mobile USA's 3G because WCDMA 1700 is yet to be launched.