We’ve been hearing about HTC joining the UMPC party for a while. A while ago, we thought it was only the HTC Athena or the Ameo or the Advantage that they were talking about — NO. Engadget has done it again, they have some great news, HTC will soon be announcing the “Shift” the UMPC that we’ve all been waiting for.
…the Shift (codename Shangri-La), is officially announced today. We don’t yet have hard details on release date or price, but we do know it should be available in Q3 (we’d estimate for under $2,000). As for features, we know not to expect anything out of the ordinary (except lots of 3G)…
The specs of the device are
- VIA CPU (the one we tried had a 1.2GHz chip)
- Vista business (yes, it was running Aero)
- 7-inch sliding, tiling wide-touchscreen
- 30GB drive
- Tri-band UMTS / HSDPA, quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE
- WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0
- Biometric reader, front-facing camera
The design looks impressive, and the keyboard is very much the same as they have used it in their previous model. Hope the pricing will be as engadget puts it (under $2000) — that could mean $1999, but we’ll like it to be around a grand.
HTC Shift — the cellphone company finally goes UMPC [engadget] | Press Release [HTC]
This could seriously make me consider giving VIA another chance!
If it’s closer to 1 grand than 2, I think I’ll get one.
2 grand is way to much that why i would never buy a OQO.
Don’t get me wrong size is nice but 2 grand for a slow computer never. Time is money and every min. cost.
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the price of this HTC shift is 1000Euro dollar or 1456 US dollar.
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HTC Shift = 1456 USD
HTC Tytn II = 750 USD
HTC Touch = 420 USD
HTC P3300 = 500 USD
Nokia N95 8GB = 750 USD
lg ke 850 = $450
All the prices are shipment fees inclusive. I will ship it all over
the world as long as you make the payment and give me the shipping
address.
Please note this is an ultimate machine, and even if you put
Windows Vista on a normal laptop or desktop it will runs very slow.
But in this HTC Shift it runs smoothly it is really out of my
expectation also. And Please don’t use it like a hand phone it is
actually a mini laptop. And it comes with 2 processor and 2 OS and
can operates at the same time.
BRAND NEW HTC SHIFT $600USD , PS3 60GB $300USD , IPHONE 8GB $300USD , NOKIA N95 8GB $350USD.
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HTC SHIFT……..
Processor: 1.2GHz
Operating system: Windows Vista Business
Hard disk drive: 30GB SSD
Memory: 1GB
Wireless: WiFi 802.11 b/g + Bluetooth 2.0
Features
• 7-inch widescreen display
• 1.2 GHz VIA CPU
• 30-gigabyte hard drive
• Memory: 64 MB RAM, 1 GB DDR2 microDIMM, 128 MB ROM
• QWERTY keyboard
• Microsoft Vista Business OS
• Windows Media Player 11
• Tri-Band UMTS/HSDPA
• Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0
WE MAKE SHIPMENT VIA UPS AND FEDEX SHIPPING COMPANY 2DAYS DELIEVER 48HOURS.
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Vista Single Core processor = A rock. A bloated OS hampering the potential of a great potential of this product.