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One of our personal highlights of this week’s HTC press events was the presentation of the HTC Shift, which was announced some months ago already but which we hadn’t seen in person so far. What makes the Shift so interesting? Well, it’s the combination of being smaller than a Notebook but more powerful than a Windows Mobile Professional smartphone while still connected through UMTS and HSDPA.
Unfortunately we hadn’t too much time with the Shift but what We’ve seen and was able to test impressed me as much that We are quite sure, that the HTC Shift is my next buy. As you can see on one photo bellow, the keyboard, even if it is a “full” Notebook keyboard isn’t sized to be used with 10 fingers but at the end you might use 2 or 4 fingers only but that’s okay and the compromise you have to pay for a device in this size:
The HTC Shift will be available in localized versions across Europe from November and will costs and estimated retail price of 1199 Euro. HTC hasn’t unveiled any carrier partnerships yet.
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October 8th, 2007 at 7:31 am
[...] Unfortunately we hadn’t too much time with the Shift but what We’ve seen and was able to test impressed me as much that We are quite sure, that the HTC Shift is my next buy. As you can see on one photo bellow, the keyboard, … Read More [...]
January 12th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
[...] date, right? We stopped counting a while ago, but off the top of our head, it looks like the HTC Shift release date has slipped more than 4 times. While initially announced to be available in Q3 ‘07, [...]