HTC 7500 and 7501
 

http://www.htc.com/product/03-product_x7501.htm

Specification
Processor
624 MHz CPU with ATi™ Graphic Chip W2284

Operating System
Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 6 Professional

Memory
ROM: 256 MB

RAM: 128 MB SDRAM
Dimension
133.5 mm (L) x 98 mm (W) x 16 mm (T)

Thickness with keyboard: 20 mm
Weight
359g (with battery)

Display
5” transmissive TFT-LCD with backlight LEDs, touch-sensitive screen

Network
HSDPA/UMTS (2100 MHz for Europe, 850/1900 MHz for USA)
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz

(The device will operate on frequencies available from the cellular network)
Device Control
5-way Navigation Control

HTC VueFLO™ motion sensor assisted browsing experience

Keyboard
Dual usage QWERTY keyboard for text input and display protection

Connectivity
Bluetooth® 2.0

Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g

HTC ExtUSB™(11-pin mini-USB and audio jack in one)

HTC proprietary 16-pin combined port (USB 1.1 host/VGA and TV Out)
Camera
3 mega-pixel camera with autofocus and flash light

Audio Built-in/Dual, Hands-free (microphone and speaker)

Headphone: AMR/AAC/WAV/WMA/MP3 codec
Battery Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery
Capacity: 2200 mAh
Standby time: Up to 300 hours (for GSM/UMTS)
Talk time (Screen off):

Up to 5.5 hours for GSM

Up to 4.5 hours for UMTS
Expansion Slot miniSD™ (Hot swap and SDHC compatible)

Re: HTC 7500 and 7501
 

You lost me at "Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 6 Professional".

Re: HTC 7500 and 7501
 

No mention of the screen resolution, and those battery figures look a bit improbable. 300 hours? That's almost 13 days, which might just be possible if the entire device apart from GSM/UMTS radio is powered down... And how long will the battery last if the screen is actually switched on, doing something useful other than yacking? :) And USB 1.1?!

I must admit when I first started going through the spec - 624 MHz CPU with ATi™ Graphic Chip W2284 - it reminded me of an HP iPAQ HX4700 (640x480 rez) from about 3 years ago, as this also had a 624Mhz PXA270 CPU and ATI Imageon 3220 graphics chip which was rubbish (it had hardware bugs and ATI lost interest in developing bug-free drivers due to lack of OEM demand - strike 1 for closed-source drivers!)

Nice form factor though, shame about the internals and choice of OS. :D

Re: HTC 7500 and 7501
 

and 350 g... this is more than what old nokia communicators used to weigh. One brick in the pocket... if it can fit in... one start to limp

Re: HTC 7500 and 7501
 

Articles are popping up around the web. Looks like the resolution is going to be pathetic 640x480 and the price is expected to be above $1,000 US.

So count me out.

Re: HTC 7500 and 7501
 

Nokia has a really good product in the N800. If they would just get the other little issues resolved and help the developers a little more to releasing solid software.

Or liscense Palm OS and load it on. Now that would be the absolute booomm!! I'd get mine today!!

Re: HTC 7500 and 7501
 

I hope you're joking: an unstable, single-tasking OS where all the applications (at best) cater for 320x320 screen resolutions? Exactly how would this be any good for the N800?!

Re: HTC 7500 and 7501
 

Of course they would have to get drivers for the N800 hardware. Which would include support for 800x480 or 800x600 resolution. Currently Palm OS supports 480x320 max.

But you cannot deny the maturity of the Palm OS. Yes it is sinlge processing and that is a part of its stability.

However I would agree that going forward multiprocessing would be a must before general release.

Re: HTC 7500 and 7501
 

PalmOS also has the problem that its single-tasking programs can write all over the internal RAM, with fatal resets as the nicest possible result (and white screen of death+losing everything installed is another one). I like PalmOS a lot, but there is simply no memory protection. If you use it a lot it will crash, and in a much more problematic way than if an application on the N800 fails, where it doesn't affect anything else and you don't need to reboot. I have a Linux-based Zaurus PDA too, and in the years I've owned it it hasn't had a single reset or crash or failure or anything _ever_. Not one. The uptime is astronomical (as it's Linux you can actually get a shell and enter the 'uptime' command, just as with the N800). This level of stability is also possible to achieve on the N800, although we're not quite there yet. As for PalmOS, if it works out I guess the Access version with PalmOS as a GUI on top of Linux is the best you could hope for, stability wise. I'm keeping an eye on that development.

Re: HTC 7500 and 7501
 

I'm not sure going to Palm OS would be a good idea.

I've been a Palm user for 4 or 5 years and have a Treo 700P. The Treo resets itself at least once a day. In my experience the N800 is more stable, especially after reflashing to the newest version.

About all I use the Treo for now, besides phone, is EVDO DUN for the N800.

Bob