A Chinese review of the Athena has turned up via PocketPcThoughts. The images aren’t that great and the translated text might as well have been left in Chinese but you can get an idea of size and usability.
The removable keyboard is a nice idea but its not going to help in ‘two hands’ mode. The thumbboard would win hands down in this scenario. The other disappointing thing is that the 5″ screen is only VGA. Its a waste. Take a look at the N800. 800×480 on a 4.1″ screen. The form fact or 4:3 looks so old now too. WVGA might have been better. In fact if the unit was the same LxW of the keyboard section, I think it would look much better. At least HTC is trying some new designs. I was getting bored of all those slide-out keyboard versions looking the same.
Remember that this isn’t HTC’s UMPC. That’s still to come. As is the Omni which is rumored to be an upgrade of the HTC universal and have an 800×480 screen. How that works with Windows Mobile 5 remains to be seen.
Tranlsated source is here.
Steve
