HKC's Pearl rips a RIM name, an HTC design, and a pair of OSes

Goodness, we can already tell that China is going to be a frigging goldmine of weird and wild Android hardware for a long, long time to come. First we had the QiGi i6, which boasted compatibility both with Android and WinMo -- and it's looking like this might be a surprisingly common feature for some of these Chinese devices now that we have another doing the same thing. The HKC Pearl looks suspiciously like a first-gen HTC Touch -- and nothing like its namesake, may we add -- working with a 2.8-inch QVGA display, 256MB of ROM, 128MB of RAM, WiFi, and a 2-megapixel cam to back up its Google- and Microsoft-provided loads. As with the QiGi, the odds of seeing this one outside Asia are slim at best, but hey, at least our colleagues at Engadget Chinese have scored a hands-on to satisfy our collective curiosities.

Read - HKC Pearl announcement
Read - Android mode hands-on
Read - WinMo mode hands-on

[Sohip Posted Dec 24th 2008 4:46PM]

I think the 2.8" is kinda small for a touchscreen phone and there is no qwerty keyboard.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 25th 2008 11:56AM]

yeah 2.8 is way to small. I think 3.25" like the storm is good, or 3.5" like the iphone is even better. no smaller then that please