Jason Dunn
06-21-2007, 10:59 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://blog.cti-miami.com/2007/06/21/htc-phones-galore/' target='_blank'>http://blog.cti-miami.com/2007/06/21/htc-phones-galore/</a><br /><br /></div>A blog I've never heard of before - CTI Miami (are they related to CSI Miami I wonder?) - <a href="http://blog.cti-miami.com/pdf/HTC.pdf">has published a PDF file</a> that supposedly contains the HTC roadmap for the immediate future (I suspect everything shown will ship by the end of 2007). I'll let the fine people at Smartphone Thoughts and Pocket PC Thoughts cover the Windows Mobile devices shown in that PDF file, but I thought I'd look at the specifications revealed for the HTC Shift.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/HTC-shift-shangri-la-x9500.gif" /><br /><br />Some of this we knew some of this we didn't. The first interesting thing is that this specification says it runs both Vista <i>and</i> Windows Mobile 6 Professional. That's very interesting because when they were talking about it, it was strictly a Windows Vista machine. Now, seeming to take notes from the folks at DualCor, the HTC Shift is going to run both operating systems. Although I should point out that this document doesn't say HTC Shift anywhere - just "Shangri-La (X9500)". I wonder if the HTC Shift is going to be a Vista-only device and the X9500 is going to be a hybrid device that just looks very similar? Only time will tell.<br /><br />800 x 480 screen resolution covering seven inches, 1 GB of RAM and 30 or 40 GB hard drive (likely a 1.8" drive), and an 800 mhz CPU rounds things out. We knew about the other stuff - Bluetooth, 802.11 b/g, VGA camera, GPS - but the 2800 mAh battery is news. I was curious about how they'd power this thing...I wonder what kind of battery life it will get?