HTC Dream Starting to Hit Europe
The HTC Dream is now on sale in Italy for a whopping €429 for a prepaid plan. The phone was launched on the Italian phone carrier TIM and according to reports they are also offering the phone for €0.00 if you decide on a monthly contract plan.
The HTC dream is said to come with a fairly decent processor 528MHz Qualcomm 7201 CPU , 1GB microSD card, 3.1-megapixel camera with no flash, Quad-Band GSM, 802.11b/g, a 3.17-inch screen with 480×320 resolution and AIM/MSN/Yahoo/GTalk.
We have full spec after the break
- 528Mhz Qualcomm 7201 processor – Not bad
- Data kit for USB connectivity in the box – Needed
- 64MB Internal RAM – Only?
- 128MB Internal ROM – Also very low
- 1GB MicroSD card – Very low
- 5 Row QWERTY keypad – We’ll see how that works
- Trackball – Nice
- Dedicated camera button – Needed
- 3.1MP camera (no flash) 2048 x 1536 – Not a breakthrough camera
- Video playback files – H.264, streaming, 3GPP, MPEG4, and Codec 3GP – It better have that
- Dedicated YouTube Player – And Flash on the web browser
- Audio playback files – MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, MPEG4, WAV, MIDI, REAL AUDIO, OGG – Nice
- Wallpaper supports JPG, BMP, PNG, and GIF – Needed
- Speakerphone (mono, natch) – The usual
- Ringtones (MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA) – needed
- HTTP, WAP Push, xHTML – the usual
- Bluetooth (class 1) – which version?
- Picture Caller ID – nice
- SMS and MMS support (Take that Apple!) – needed
- POP, IMAP, and SMTP, AOL, and GMAIL email – needed
- AIM, MSN, YAHOO, and GTALK messaging – needed, but wait, wasn’t GTalk scrapped off?
- Cell Phone Frequencies (850, 900, 1800, 1900) – needed
- 3G – which bands?
- 802.11b & 802.11g – nice
- UMTS (1,4), HSDPA, SUPL – WiFi?
- 1150mAh battery – only?
- Screen size is 3.17? with HVGA (480 x 320) – nice
- Handset 117 x 55 x 16mm – we’ll see…
- 5.6 oz weight – 158g, that’s heavy-ish
- Sync capable with Google Calendar – it better do that
- Downloadable content via Android Marketplace – nice
- Google Streetview with built-in compass – well done, where’s the GPS?
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