HTC's NEON400: a CDMA Touch Dual?

In HTC parlance, the "Neon" codename denotes a device of the Touch Dual form factor -- original Touch styling plus a slider keypad, a drill we all know by now. This particular form factor seems to be a pretty popular one, too, considering the sheer number of variants HTC's turned out; at this point, we have one for Europe, one for North America, and one for Japan, and a new FCC filing suggests that there's still at least one more trick in that pony. The so-called NEON400 doesn't give much away from the ID label document that we see here, but test reports indicate that it's sporting CDMA 850 / 1900 -- just right for launching on Sprint, Verizon, Alltel -- you get the idea -- and obviously, we'll see EV-DO in there as well. Against the Touch Diamond, the Dual is starting to look just a little dated, but it gets that all-important keypad that the Diamond lacks -- so even networks that end up launching the Diamond can realistically make room for this one in the lineup when it's announced. By someone other than the FCC, that is.

[Thi mam(kris120890) @ Jul 4th 2008 12:00PM]

Great picture of............................................................................nothing.

[danny003 @ Jul 4th 2008 12:01PM]

Bell Canada will be carrying a CDMA Touch Dual soon

[we2love @ Jul 4th 2008 12:03PM]

test

[Wormbolt @ Jul 4th 2008 12:40PM]

Another blatant rip off of a line drawing of the outline of an iPhone.

[cesium @ Jul 4th 2008 2:52PM]

it's not funny anymore

[Bob @ Jul 4th 2008 12:55PM]

CDMA? Does it come with a brontosaurus burger and a club?

[TheGasMan @ Jul 4th 2008 2:35PM]

What?

[TheGasMan @ Jul 4th 2008 2:35PM]

"plus a slider keyboard"
Let's be clear that this has a slider keypad, not a slider keyboard. Big difference. If it had a slider keyboard, I might be interested.

[Steffen Jobbs @ Jul 4th 2008 3:02PM]

Typical WinMo handset.

[kevin Nguyen @ Jul 4th 2008 4:48PM]

Why bother with Touch Dual at this point when Touch Pro and Touch Diamond are coming to CDMA?

[Michael @ Jul 4th 2008 6:47PM]

Some variants of the Touch Dual have a keypad (where the 1-9 keys have the typical 3 letters per key, with predictive text entry).

http://www.softteq.com/nick/MeettheHTCTouchDual_7E3E/IMAGE_014_thumb.jpg

Other models (I think the distinction is carrier-specific) have 2 letters per key on a wider arrangement of keys

http://www.softteq.com/nick/TheDualTouchDuals_DED1/touch_dual_telstra.jpg

Hopefully the latter version will show up on Sprint/Alltel/Verizon here in the united states