HTC Dream Starting to Hit Europe

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Colm

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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