Mobile phone retailer Clove opened up pre-ordering for
the HTC keyboard based Windows Phone 7 handset, with a cost attached of # 442.80.
Not exact matches
The
HTC ChaCha is their Qwerty
keyboard based budget BlackBerry — esque phone, with a 2.6 - inch 480 × 320 touch screen, a 600 MHz processor, 512 MB of internal storage, a 5 Megapixel camera and Android with the
HTC Sense overlay.
HTC also has a Qwerty
keyboard based mobile, which has the more traditional horizontal slide out
keyboard only that phone has still yet to manifest in the UK.
Expansys is stocking the
HTC Windows Phone 7 Qwerty
keyboard based mobile, free on a # 30.65 a month tariff.
4.1 inches doesn't sound overly big compared to the
HTC HD7, but that's before you realise that this phone also packs a slide - out QWERTY
keyboard from the
base of the handset rather than the side.
The
HTC ChaCha is their Qwerty
keyboard based budget BlackBerry-esque phone, with a 2.6 - inch 480 × 320 touch screen, a 600 MHz processor, 512 MB of internal storage, a 5 Megapixel camera and Android with the
HTC Sense overlay.
According to the Shanghai -
based keyboard developer,
HTC is replacing Nuance's Swype with TouchPal as its new default input engine on upcoming Android devices — including the recently announced One M9 — around the world (unless requested otherwise by operators).
4.1 inches doesn't sound overly big compared to the
HTC HD7, but that's before you realise that this phone also packs a slide - out QWERTY
keyboard from the
base of the handset rather than the side.