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HKC's Prado smartphone handled in detail
Your odds of finding HKC's Windows Mobile-powered Prado in the Western Hemisphere are slim to none -- at least, not in any official capacity -- but considering the sheer number of buttons, whirlygigs, and doodads around the phone's circumference, we'd be doing everyone a disservice by not throwing it in the spotlight for a moment or two. Our colleagues at Engadget Chinese have put the Prado through its paces, using the HTC Touch HD as a benchmark; you step down to a VGA display and a 2 megapixel cam, but on the upside, you get a faster processor and 4GB of storage on board. Of course, you can't put a price on your phone looking like a cheap MID when it's actually just a WinMo 6.1 smartphone, so that might be where the Prado really comes out on top.
Keepin' it real fake, part CLXXXII: HKC Touch clone sports Android looks at a WinMo price
The folks at "HKC" are back on the scene with the Imobile V413 handset. This Touch-esque KIRF boasts a dual WinMo 6.1 / Android OS -- and we're not entirely sure what this means. Other HKC phones have claimed compatibility with both operating systems, and we must admit that the screenshot does look pretty legit. Compared to the for real Touch, this thing appears to have some pretty OK specs, including: a 2.8-inch touchscreen, GPS, WiFi, a 2 megapixel camera and support for audio and video playback. Well played, Imobile. Your move, HTC. Available for $410, or in lots of 50 for $398 each.
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 announcementRead - Android mode hands-onRead - WinMo mode hands-on
