FCC Approves the HTC Foreseer

[Kris Kumar]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/readarticles.php?id=1519' target='_blank'>http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/readarticles.php?id=1519</a><br /><br /></div><i>"HTC’s Foreseer is a Windows Mobile 5 smartphone with American GSM/EDGE support. It sports a candybar design and runs on 200MHz OMAP CPU, and features 64MB RAM, 128MB ROM and microSD and DVB-H tuner, which enables users to watch digital video broadcasts. The FCC approved device is supposed to be the DVB-H equipped Modeo smartphone unveiled back in April, which features 2.2-inch 65k color QVGA display, 1.3 megapixel camera and Bluetooth support."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Kris-Sept06-HTCForeseerFCC.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />The FCC is approving a lot of Windows Mobile Smartphones nowadays. Here is another one, the HTC Foreseer, with a unique form-factor; designed for watching digital video broadcasts. Check out the <a href="http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/forms/blobs/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=699234&amp;native_or_pdf=pdf">RF exposure document</a> [PDF] provided by the FCC for some product photos. Somehow this document managed to slip past the confidentiality requirement. The interesting thing that I noticed is that the FCC tested this product with three different batteries. :?

[encece]

More information for you:

Info on the company....
http://www.modeo.com/

Specs on the phone....
http://www.modeo.com/spec_sheet.pdf

[jfreiman]

More and more Windows Mobile SmartPhones keep getting FCC approval, but few are being released.

I wish there was some way to KNOW when each of these models were going to be released so that I/we could plan our purchases better, ie: contract renewal. :(

[Kris Kumar]

More and more Windows Mobile SmartPhones keep getting FCC approval, but few are being released.

A very good point. Especially all those Samsung units that are keeping the FCC busy for no good use. :evil:

[Mike Temporale]

FCC Approval doesn't mean that they will be released in the US. Basically, the manufacturer has asked for FCC approcal to ensure that the device doesn't cause any problems if a customer happens to travel to the US. I don't think it's required for them to do this, but it appears that some are.

[xultar]

Captain Picard, I'll scan the dylithium crystals with my tetrionic enhanced tricorder. :lol:

The phone looks straight up L-Cars.

[cortez]

man...i'm sorry, but this thing is very "unappealing"... it looks like an attempt at a smartphone during the mid-1990's. 8O

[Kris Kumar]

man...i'm sorry, but this thing is very "unappealing"... it looks like an attempt at a smartphone during the mid-1990's. 8O

I agree.

Wish they had put a qwerty key pad or a Sure Type key pad, to extend the use of this wide bodied Smartphone beyond TV.

I hope it doesn't suffer the same fate as the Voq. Good concept, but bad execution and design.

[apeguero]

man...i'm sorry, but this thing is very "unappealing"... it looks like an attempt at a smartphone during the mid-1990's. 8O

I agree.

Wish they had put a qwerty key pad or a Sure Type key pad, to extend the use of this wide bodied Smartphone beyond TV.

I hope it doesn't suffer the same fate as the Voq. Good concept, but bad execution and design.

Damn Kris, you stole my thunder :D I was going to say the same thing about the keypad. They should've used that real estate wisely instead of leaving all of that empty space.