Hands-On With HTC’s First Laptop

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Until now, HTC has mostly made Windows Mobile smartphones, such as the Cingular 2125, 3125, 8125. and 8525 and the T-Mobile MDA and SDA. The HTC Shift …

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Hands-On With HTC’s First Laptop
Smartphone maker HTC announced the first major surprise of the CTIA wireless trade show this
year by unveiling the Shift, its first Windows Vista PC. The company also displayed a US version of
the Advantage, a device that straddles the line between a large PDA and an ultralight laptop.
These products are the two most impressive of HTC’s planned 10 to 12 product launches this year,
marketing vice president Todd Achilles said during a meeting with PC Magazine last week. Among the
other product launches will be new smartphones for CDMA carriers with Verizon, Sprint, Alltel and Telus
using a new Qualcomm chipset that “lets us get down to a price point never reached before,” Achilles said.
HTC Shifts Perspective
Until now, HTC has mostly made Windows Mobile smartphones, such as the Cingular 2125, 3125, 8125
and 8525 and the T-Mobile MDA and SDA. The HTC Shift, which PC Magazine had the chance to test,
looks like a tablet, but fits in a large coat pocket. More specifically, it’s about the size of two DVD cases
stacked on top of each other, and we estimated the weight between 1.5 and 1.8 pounds….