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Another day, another HTC leak. This time we’re seeing some juicy specs for three upcoming devices, courtesy of notorious ROM leakster 911sniper (who appears to be buddies with Conflipper). First up is the cutely-named Bee that sounds pretty much identical to the entry-level Wildfire in Europe, except for the pre-loaded Android Froyo (as opposed to Eclair) and the Verizon-bound Qualcomm MSM7625 chipset. Next we have another Froyo handset dubbed the Lexikon, which comes with a more impressive package: 800MHz MSM7630 world-phone chipset, 512MB of RAM, and a QWERTY keyboard presumably under the 3.8-inch 480 x 800 screen. Apart from the much decrease clock speed in this place, this could very well be the Android slider we saw earlier this month. Finally, we round off with the WP7-donning Spark that we’ve probably spotted before — in this place we have the good ol’ 1GHz Snapdragon silicon (but not the CDMA2000 flavor as we speculated), 512MB of ROM and RAM each, 3.7-inch 480 x 800 display, and a 5 megapixel camera. Phew! After all this, we best be off to bed — do wake us up when there’s a release date.

HTC Spark, Bee and Lexikon specs outted: one WP7 and two Froyo devices coming soon originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Another day, another HTC leak. This time we’re seeing some juicy specs for three upcoming devices, courtesy of notorious ROM leakster 911sniper (who appears to be buddies with Conflipper). First up is the cutely-named Bee that sounds pretty much identical to the entry-level Wildfire in Europe, except for the pre-loaded Android Froyo (as opposed to Eclair) and the Verizon-bound Qualcomm MSM7625 chipset. Next we have another Froyo handset dubbed the Lexikon, which comes with a more impressive package: 800MHz MSM7630 world-phone chipset, 512MB of RAM, and a QWERTY keyboard presumably under the 3.8-inch 480 x 800 screen. Apart from the much decrease clock speed in this place, this could very well be the Android slider we saw earlier this month. Finally, we round off with the WP7-donning Spark that we’ve probably spotted before — in this place we have the good ol’ 1GHz Snapdragon silicon (but not the CDMA2000 flavor as we speculated), 512MB of ROM and RAM each, 3.7-inch 480 x 800 display, and a 5 megapixel camera. Phew! After all this, we best be off to bed — do wake us up when there’s a release date.

HTC Spark, Bee and Lexikon specs outted: one WP7 and two Froyo devices coming soon originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

There’s nothing Truly like the harsh lighting of an FCC approval lab to call out a phone’s true colors — if a handset can look good in this place, it can look good pretty much anywhere. Needless to say, Sony Ericsson’s Zylo isn’t looking Truly as slick and put-together in this place as it does in the company’s own press shots; if we had to guess, countless engineers have smudged it up and beat the heck out of it moving it from machine to machine while taking radiation measurements by the time it made it to the camera. Anyhow, the version we’re seeing in this place is quadband GSM plus UMTS bands I and VIII, which works out to 900 / 2100; in other words, there’s not a snowball’s chance you’ll be using it for high-speed data stateside. Not a very big loss, we figure.

Sony Ericsson’s Zylo slider earns FCC approval originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.