HTC Mega materializes again, brings along spec list
By Ross Miller 
posted Aug 23rd 2009 5:03PM
posted Aug 23rd 2009 5:03PM
HTC's Mega certainly isn't the most exciting of the company's upcoming products to leak lately, but it's looking likely that it'll have one of the nicer price tags on it for a Window Mobile 6.5 device. Another screenshot has surfaced that matches up with one we saw earlier and shows off more of the sides and back. Along with it comes a new list of specs -- not too shabby, but nothing too exciting, either. According to ai.rs blog, it has WCDMA/HSPA and quad-band GSM support, a 3.2 megapixel camera, microSD slot, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, AGPS, and still the 2.8-inch QVGA screen and 528MHz Qualcomm processor we heard about previously. If you're already playing with the Mega's TouchFLO 2D-infused ROM, consider this supplementary material for getting a more thorough idea of what the actual phone will look like when it does come out -- whenever that is.
would have been nice (for me) if not for that 2.8" screen. oh well, they'll still sell the pants off it.
@ novak
people use there winmo phones for things like work and business. the iPhone is a smartphone that you obviously dont have to be to smart to use
Que Pasa Cochino @
Despite Microsoft is putting out false info out there about iPhone, the truth is more businesses are adopting the iPhone.
Every surveys show doctors, lawyers, sales people etc have picked iPhone over WinMo phones overwhelmingly. These
people use iPhone for their daily work. Don't believe the fanboys including myself. :) Do a google search and you will know
the truth. Bottom line is WinMo devices have become irrelevant!
Novak,
YOUR comment is irrelevant.
Keep repeating "WinMo is irrelevant" like it's your mantra if you like but that won't make it a reality. You're completely foolish to count out anyone in the smartphone wars right now when it's only just beginning. But you seem too simple to think beyond what's the coolest phone at the moment.
Whether or not MS will catch up to the front runners, only time will tell but you must be living under a rock if you haven't noticed that MS is on a good and steady run right now what with Windows 7, Zune HD, new stores opening and not to mention all the positive press that the recent builds of WinMo 6.5 is getting.
Yeah WinMo is irrelevant, keep fantasizing buddy. Once you wake up from your dream, you should think about actually taking notice of the real tech scene outside of the "iPhone, omg it's so cool" world.
I hate that processor with a burning passion. It needs to DIE.
yeah, amen. lets move past 528 . . .
A lot of people bashing the phone don't realize: It's a budget smartphone.
Stop trashing the specs. It's price is rumored at 300 bucks not 500.
lol whilst i agree with you in theory, you did not post it on the right page. It is actually pretty reasonable for a low spec phone like this.
I am with you on that, even the 1st gen iphone processor is faster and with lower clock speed. F$($%) pathetic they are still using this 2 year old technology. SNAPDRAGON hello!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why are HTC's decent looking phones all going to Windows Mobile? Android could use some love too!
So far every major Android phone was made by HTC :)
My HTC Hero (Android/Sense) is far nicer than this thing, although my old and trusty HTC TouchHD (win mob 6.1/touchFLO) is still my fav among my phones, and it will likely remain so until I'll be able to grab an HTC Leo or Firestone or whatever they are gonna name it .
I also have a Nokia N97 that now , after much decrappyfing, tweaking, downloads of themes, apps, updates, program migration between memories, and other tedious operations, it finally became what it should have been when it first came out of its pretty minimalistic box.
Somehow though, even now, the TouchHD remains my fav and without it I feel naked and unarmed.
As for the Hero , I carry it with me most of the time and in my opinion it's the teachie equivalent of the swiss knife and an awesome piece of electronic engineering too (and I also love its looks); but I spend most of my waking hours driving a car in a country (Denmark) where being spotted by the piggies with a phone in my hands while driving could easily cost me my licence, so until someone will decide to write a voice dialing program for it (possibly with solid BT support) it can't become the primary phone for me or for those unfortunate folks with working patterns and necessities similar to mine.
Unfortunately Android developers atm seem all concentrated in producing burping and farting apps, virtual fish tanks or lava lamps and disco lights for smartphones.
Most people who bought an Hero or a Touch2 would be ready to pay dearly for decent voice dialing app but obviously nobody bothered to tell them.
Does anyone else notice the tiny font?
yeah, that's the only reason I clicked on this article. It's the same size on the rest of the articles.
Looks like they are just trying to get rid of those "528MHz Qualcomm processors" We all know and love!
I hope HTC gets rid of those FAST.
Here's hoping they starting using Snapdragon and Tegra on every phone soon
so its pretty much a touch diamond with qvga? lame.
HTC is really trying hard to get an honorable place in the cellphone business. They've taken some bold moves, like being the first to jump on Android. They release a new smartphone every two weeks it seems. But why, why on earth do they continue to pump out winmo devices? Before all the raging comments from you IT guys, for the average tech-savvy consumer (which is the new smartphone target audience) winmo is the worst UI experience and all the skins HTC and Samsung throw on top of it is futile. Seriously, aside from the iPhone OS and WebOS there is no other solid, mature UI. Android is getting there, and that's why HTC needs to push harder towards it.
Typical, one of those tech savvy guys unwilling to give MS OS a chance. Lets just drop it cause its not "Mature" enough. I do not even know what you mean by mature. As in third party app love? I hope you at least are not one of those guys opposed to MS and think of them as overlords. lol.
was mature the correct word? WebOS is hardly mature. Good as it might be I am sure it is still to be polished.
iPhone OS and WebOS are Mature? Try more shiny. Windows Mobile has been around since before either existed, it takes the "Mature" cake, although it could use some polish.
By the way, when you try and use Windows Mobile to get some shit done, as in actually use it for all your messaging or to manage your schedule, something you can't do on the iPhone (not without a physical keyboard I can't), it's wonderful. People buying WinMo phones and expecting stupid featurephones need to go buy just that, a stupid featurephone. As soon as WinMo 6.5 drops I'm disabling TouchFLO (because it needs a lot more than a 528 MHz Qualcomm, God I hate those things) and just using the native home screen.
I run TouchFLO2D just fine on my Kaiser... 400MHz.
And, actually, if you were dropping "TouchFLO", you'd be dropping the scrolling system, sliding launcher and HTC home combo found on the original HTC Touch, which had a 200Mhz processor.
@shiek124
You can get custom ROMs with WM 6.5 on XDA-Developers. It is WAY better than 6.1! Kinetic scrolling is part of the OS and 95% of all lists can be scrolled by taping and flicking! Try it out!
Wow, so I guess asking politely doesn't help much :)
So yeah, WebOS has a 'mature' experience (OK, probably not the best term but I'll explain myself). Sure, it's like 6 months old, but anyone who used it knows that Palm didn't waste all those years watching the smartphone business evolve on nothing. Yes, it has quite a bit of polishing to do (Synergy, consistency in navigation and so on). However, the point I was making is that they manage to 'get' what the new crowd of smartphones want these days.
I'm not pretending to be the torchbearer, just look at the number of iPhones sold, and the general expansion of that market. What people are consistently asking for in a smartphone is a big screen, good multimedia features and a good web experience. And mail. But really, apart from that, 'classic' smartphone features like calendar are considered less important.
And Microsoft haven't been able to respond to those changes. So in terms of today's market, winmo isn't mature enough. It's obsolete. And that's why those companies spend all that effort in trying to make it more tolerable.
They've stuck with Windows Mobile because it's the operating system most familiar to them. HTC has dedicated a lot of time and money to WinMo as an investment.
The tide is beginning to turn toward Android, however, as 50% of HTC's production portfolio is expected to be comprised of Android devices by 2010, up from 30% in 2009. Should Android prove to be the better investment and WinMo continues to lag, then the numbers will shift even further to Android beyond 2010.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/22/htc-adopting-android-on-50-of-its-handsets-in-2010/
MacVicta,
I agree but I don't think HTC have dedicated as much as 50% or their resources into Android. I think they're doing the sensible thing right now and are testing the waters with Android to see if it's a viable and worthwhile investment for them. To be honest, Android is such a mixed bag in terms of it's actual success thus far so it's hard for anyone to make an accurate prediction.
@ Dave
"What people are consistently asking for in a smartphone is a big screen, good multimedia features and a good web experience. And mail."
That pretty much describes an HTC Touch HD... One of HTC's more sophisticated products. This phone is a BUDGET smart phone which isn't aimed to compete with their other better quality smartphones.
Also have you forgotten about Blackberries? They most certainly fall under the smartphone category and I found a better web experience, multimedia features, and a bigger screen on a different phone. I kept the Blackberry because I needed it for my own reasons. People buy different phones because each person needs a particular phone with a specific set of functions that suits their own lifestyle.
(By the way the iPhone's expansion in today's global markets isn't all that powerful. Companies like Nokia and HTC are mostly prefered by the mass in many many many countries. The iPhone is only expanding its market very slowly in a global perspective.)
Seriously, when will HTC dump Qualcomm?
I know. Qualcomm has utterly dragged HTC in the dirt ever since it made the processors for HTC's phones. I will NEVER buy a cell phone with a Qualcomm processor again. Texas Instruments, NVIDIA, Samsung, and even Intel's xscale processors perform FAR better, more efficiently, and are more reliable than anything Qualcomm makes. I honestly don't know why HTC keeps coming back to them, especially when a class-action lawsuit almost took place for their under-performing, driver-lacking processor they claimed was so great.
Was hoping this was an Andriod phone, but it's Wimo... #fail
You know, if you're looking for an Android post and this wasn't it, you don't have to comment and complain about it being WinMo. Seeing posts like this makes we want to go to every Android post and complain about it using Android, but I'll try to restrain myself.
So the phone isn't very "Mega" at all.
HTC ought to have reserved the product name for a more awesome phone.
Unless the "HTC Awesome" is in development right now.
They meant Mega as in Mega-cheap!!
The HTC Awesome is actually under development with the name HTC Leo. Snapdragon, its gunna be pretty sweet.
Booorrriiinnng!
What if HTC could focus on getting just one decent phone out instead of pumping mediocre ones like these? I mean, the Hero was close, so they should be able to pull it off.
I'm sick of HTC crap phones.
htc really loves those 2.8 inch screens. makes for a nice handy device but some people want the large iphone form factor
Anyone else thinks that looks like the default theme of ThrottleLauncher?