Update: Real photos have been leaked.
Update 2: A new Athena info page has been created to track the latest specs and news.
Via TheUnwired I see that BengalBoy has pictures and specs of the HTC Athena. This is the one with the magnetic keyboard that I was raving about. a few weeks ago. Great stuff.
However, this is not the UMPC that they are working on as far as I know. This is strictly WM5, 640×480. An Uber-Smartphone.
The CPU is a Samsung 400Mhz (not like-for-like comparable with Intel Xscale. Samsung’s are more powerful per clock cycle.) Its not the 624Mhz Xscale that I reported but its close enough. Bengal Boy’s specs show ‘Wireless WAN.’ Is that Wi-Max or 3.6Mbps HSDPA?
Bengal Boy says that its a 3.5″ screen. My information was that its a 5″ screen. I hope it is.
…is clear evidence of the migration from the traditional Pocket PC devices to a larger UMPC form factor.
Specs look great and this will be the device that goes head-to-head with the E90 I reported on yesterday. Or maybe the 5″ Samsung UMPC-like device that Judie’s talking about. (More later.)
Steve.
