New HTC Shift Released

by Chris Davies on August 13, 2007





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HTC has finally released its upcoming PDA/UMPC entitled the shift. Well, they have at least released it in Korea.

The HTC shift is quite revolutionary, whereas up until now, if you wanted to do even the most basic of functions on your UMPC you had to fully power it on and begin sucking away at that battery, with the Shift, this is not the case. There are separate OS and processors for use at your disposal.

There is the 400MHz Qualcomm processor and Windows Mobile 6.0 for PDA types of use, and you can use it without recharging running solely on this set of hardware/software. Then you simply push a button and you are using the Intel A110 800MHz processor and Windows Vista Business which only lasts about 3 hours.

Other specs include a 1.3MP webcam, fingerprint scanner, 1GB DDR2, 40GB HDD, WLAN, HSDPA, and the latest revision of Bluetooth. There isn’t a price listed, but it should be available now (once again, at least in Korea). One note of caution, HTC’s latest press release containing info on the Shift says it should be released in US and European markets by Q3 of this year, so, it may be available in Korea, but probably won’t be available here for at least another month.

www.htc.com/product/03-product_HTC_Shift.htm

HTC UMPC ‘Shift’ to load two CPUs [via AVING]

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1 cclo 08.14.07 at 9:24 am

HTC shift hasn’t been released yet. The latest news about shift is that Hugo Ortega from GottaBeMobile.com managed to get one engineering sample and published a 30min video preview.

By the way, HTC is a Taiwan company. The chance it first releases shift in Korea but not in Taiwan or in a major western country is almost zero.

2 christian 08.22.07 at 4:14 pm

my question about the shift is the webcam? is the webcam usable with any program? like aim and all? i only ask because i use it alot for work…thanks

3 mhamad ayash 09.17.07 at 11:29 am

hiiii! i really luved the htc shift alot! i will pay like 200 or a little more for it ! may u offer me the htc shift like that? i really luv it so much ! i would luv then to work with u ! c ya

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