HTC's Opal set to replace the aging Touch?

by Thomas Ricker Sep 9th 2008 @ 7:53AM

Is this supposed HTC Opal the followup to last year's trailblazing HTC Touch? According to what looks like an internal HTC document gone viral, the Opal will run HTC's newest TouchFLO 3D UI band-aid for WinMo 6.1 atop the same TI OMAP 850 proc already powering the Touch. Looking a bit deeper reveals quad-band GSM / EDGE with the same WiFi, MicroSD slot, Bluetooth 2.0, 2 megapixel camera, and 2.8-inch 240 x 320 pixel touchscreen found in the aged Touch handset. Only HTC, with its Touch Diamond, Touch Pro, Dream, and Xperia X1 can force a flagship device down-market so quickly.

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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE

Tags: edge, gsm, htc, opal, touch, touchflo, touchflo 3d, Touchflo3d, windows mobile, windowsmobile

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DssTrainer @ Sep 9th 2008 8:51AM

WHY! Why does HTC keep making things thicker?! The touch was the perfect thickness and had 1100maH battery. That lasted me the whole day.

The damn sprint touch diamond has more real estate to stretch a thin battery, but instead they make it fatter and completely turn me off.. and for what? 200mah extra? pfft.

And now the Opal, while not as fat as the diamond, is still fatter than the touch.

LISTEN HTC! THIN IS IN! If its fatter than a 1st-gen iPhone... it's just a paper weight to me. i await the day they make phones with slideout keyboards as thin as the HTC Touch, yet strong enough to not crack in half when using them. Technology is soooo slow.

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Hush @ Sep 9th 2008 10:19AM

I agree that they need to stretch the batteries more. My HTC Advantage has a 2200 MaH battery and it's quite thin and not longer or wider than a Touch. The design should start with the battery. Imagine an original Touch the exact same size with a 2200 battery. You'd get like 3 or 4 days easy with moderate usage.

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