For reasons seemingly known only to Peter Chou himself, HTC has mostly steered clear of producing high-quality physical QWERTY devices running Android, despite the fact that there might be no phone manufacturer in the world more skilled at making them (let us remind you of the
Touch Pro2, among many others dating back the better part of a decade). Anyhow, we caught wind last month of a possible entry in the form of the so-called "Vision," but we didn't have any visuals -- just
a user agent profile that may or may not amount to anything. Well, that seems to be changing today with a couple blurry shots out of a Croatian site that allegedly shows the goods featuring a 3.7-inch display, a 1GHz processor (Snapdragon, we assume), and Android 2.1 with Sense (the launcher looks like stock Android in this photo, but the status bar is clearly HTC custom). At a glance, it doesn't seem to be the prettiest thing in the world -- but for a form factor traditionally associated with power users and suits, this might be just the ticket.
[Thanks, Ivan]
posted July 4th 2010 6:03PM
@androidboi
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Looks to be like an Incredible with a keyboard. We'll have to wait and see.
This is a T-Mobile USA Device. You'll see.
Looks like the the mythical Nexus One Pro
@mburris
I'm surprised it doesn't come with a front cam. Looks like it's really directed to the enterprise crowd.
@mburris More desire pro
I'm going to guess dual-band 3G, provider-locked, and stuck with 2.1.
Pass.
Arrow keys?
This can't be the Vision, not looking like this, from what we've read this is so far of from that (the spec rumors).
"associated with power users and suits"
It's suit up time
I don't understand why b/g/n are not known or made by this 'wonder' into his phones. I understand the situation concerning this tech & I also know with all the mini home towers , that making phones in this way will begin. As many owning & buying smart phones this will become a necessity. So hurry up will ya. This looks like a phone that may be interesting & I wait for this builder to begin making b/g/n, otherwise it's a useless phone (again).
pass. id rather keep my g1 with 2.2. next...
Can't help it but this thing looks kinda ugly. C'mon HTC you can do better that that!
Maybe if you chop off that last portion at the bottom and leave only the frame...
nice but the Samsung Galaxy S Pro looks better to me
i wish they made a copy of the xperia x1.
that was the best phone i ever owned in terms of build quality. If they only fixed the X shaped button a TINY bit with one separaration, it would be the perfect phone.
man even now i still have it and when i pick it up, it just feels so GOOD
hmm..smells like Nexus 2. o:
I think HTC needs to clear away from the snapdragon and move towards the 1ghz TI OMAP SoC since it has better performance.
Then again, 1.5 and even 2ghz phones are coming soon so who cares!
I jusr loled all over my phone drdr, I do agree....
I want large res camera /w hd video. Dual or hummingbird core 768 ram? And a 5 row keyboard with (telus/rogers) so I can get 10 dollar a month internet with att. I think that would rock it hard.... I just purchased this rogers htc dream on att. Its nice, but id be nicer if there was (again) telus/rogers branding. I need a cheap data plan. I do get 20% my phone bill and that includes me 10 plan not a 20 or 30+ plan.
I would like to see 1080p dual 1.2ghz 1024 ram and 32gb hit at mid 2011 or end of 2011 (if I can wait long enough... which I get a new phone every 3 months...)
I call fake. This phone is supposed to have a 3.7" screen, but the keyboard only has 4 rows. If HTC can fit a very comfortable, I'm typing on it now in fact, fully useable 5 row keyboard on the Touch Pro2, which has a 3.6" screen, why take a step back here? I think this is either a different, smaller phone, or a photoshop. Unless HTC is taking a page from Nokia and making unnecessarily large flip/slide mechanisms at the cost of normal keyboards.
HTC is getting monotonous by the day. They're making a mini & extra large version of all their phones. First glance I thought it was a Pro2...
Just make a Touch Pro2 with more RAM and a better processor, and with Android of course. Oh, and 4G.
I'd prefer to see a 5 row, like the g1, but a snapdragon or better mytouch3g slide is close enough
It looks like it is going to AT&T. It probably will never go to Europe or Asia because it looks like crap itself, but it's keyboard looks nice.
I'd prefer to see a 5 row, like the g1, but a snapdragon or better mytouch3g slide is close enough
Someone please explain how that screen managed to "slide" into position. The tiny kb is PART OF A SINGLE UNIT which is quite a bit larger than the screen. KIRF
been waiting for a full qwerty powerhouse android device from htc and looks like at long last my dreams will come true. let's go htc, put this baby out in time for the holidays.
I am against the statement that a 4 row keyboard is a full QWERTY. It's got to be 5 rows to be full.
Could have been made much better looking...
Uh what about the My Touch 2? Last time I checked that was HTC and Android..
so y is nexus one launcher on htc phone anyone anyone
This is NOT the rumored HTC Vision that is supposed to drop on T-Mobile in Q4. On the Android Central Podcast last week, they said they spoke to HTC rep's and T-Mobile rep's at some event and while all of them confirmed such a device exist's, they were not willing to go on record with anything that was said. What they did say was that this device will be the first to pack a Qualcom duel core processor and the first device to ship with Android 3.0 (Gingerbread). Other info they gave was that the screen would be bigger than 4 in. but they didn't say whether or not it had a keyboard.
I really hope this isn't the Vision, or that they changed the name of what was to be called the Vision. This is not at all special compared to what was rumoured.
All of you shouting love for the EPIC, be reminded that it still is a CDMA phone. GSM ftw.
Right?
I just threw up a little. Saying it's ugly is an understatement.
Please HTC we expect a lot, please don't disappoint us with a back step.
I thought I wouldn't be able to live without a physical keyboard but since Swype I'm all happy with what I got. I bet a physical keyboard would do me good but it's not (for me) that huge gap in experience/speed as before Swype.
I'm sad there are no arrow keys on there though. Anyways I'm sure you can bind other keys in your favourite emulator
Ya… pretty much everything about it turned out to be not true.
http://briefmobile.com/htc-vision-specifications-and-pictures
4.3″ screen – no.
Dual core processor – no.
Gingerbread – no.
Only the QWERTY keyboard survives. ;)
It's the enterprise Nexus, not the Vision. The design has NEXUS all over it.
The Vision is a 4.3" dual-core Pixel Qi phone with a front camera.
This better have lte
Had they kept the Q, A and Z keys aligned vertically (like Nokia does) there would have been space for other important keys at the right, like apostrophe, etc. Instead, there is a waste of precious keyboard real estate in the left part.
Chances are I'll still just get the MyTouch Slide when my contract is up, but at the very least I'll keep this in mind as a potential option. I wonder what carrier it's going to...
@kenny goo ... I am getting an SGS when it debuts with T-Mo on July 21. But I just bought a Slide for my GF to replace her aging G1.
The Slide is an awesome phone. No wonder all the consumer product professional reviewers (CNET, PC World, etc.) have been giving it high marks.
Comparing it to all my other smartphones (Pearls, Curve, BlackBerry 9700, Touch Pro2, G1, HD2) I have to say that it is a super quality phone. It's fast, has a fantastic display, the keyboard is HTC quality and it's also compact enough to where I say it is a perfect size (I have an HD2 and that's what I am comparing it to. Compared to the HD2, the Slide is a miniature phone. LOL).
I highly recommend the Slide.
@MichaelSF
Thanks for the advice. Glad my potentially purchase is quality.
Anyone think this is the nexus one pro that Google talked about in the early days of the nexus launch converted over to sense when Google decided that nexus one was going to be it for then.
I want the one with the bigger GB's!
Yeah, this makes very little sense to me. Why would HTC backtrack from the keyboard on the TP2? Ergonomics would be way off on this, compared to the TP2, and the lack of a 5th row makes no sense. It's not like only 4 rows would somehow make it thinner. Also, where's the mic button?
I have faith that HTC will bring a decent Android QWERTY to the market in 4th quarter, as they have since 2004. I've been through the Harrier, Apache, Titan, and Rhodium; all released sometime between September and December (except for delays which pushed the Apache to Feb). The Raphael also came in Q4, but I skipped that one.
Come on HTC, just slap android on a Touch Pro2, but beef up the processor and RAM while you're at it. Also add a compass (gryoscope perhaps?) obviously. Shouldn't be too hard.
Why are people such big fans of HTC? It makes pretty crappy low quality products. Motorola's quality is so much more better. I love Motorola though HTC has so far been able to grab more of the interesting Android device share but increasingly with Motorola partnering with Verizon, things are starting to look better. I'd say they need to start focusing on GSM as much as they are focusing on CDMA.