If Microsoft could help it, Windows Mobile 6.5 wouldn’t be coming to a retail device for a few months yet, and if HTC could help it, manufacturers wouldn’t be duplicating its devices. But in this world ridden with plagiarism, a quick search on the internet could take you to a cooked 6.5 ROM. Yet another search could give you a lowdown on the shockingly numerous low-cost rips of much sought-after branded handsets.
So why are we giving you all this extra gyan? Well, the latest such knockoff is that of the Touch Viva. It is apparently based on a white-labeled Huawei platform that offers some kind of 460MHz core, quadband EDGE, a 3.2 megapixel cam, WiFi, and a 2.8-inch QVGA display.
This thingy has an utterly inconsequential design and spec sheet, but costs only about $160 or so. There is one thing here though – you will definitely make history if you ever purchased this handset!
The HTC Touch Viva is Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional smartphone featuring 2.8″ QVGA display, a 2 megapixel camera, aGPS and WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, and microSD expandable memory slot. It measures 104.5 x 59 x 15.75 mm and weighs about 110g.
HTC Touch Viva was introduced a month ago together with the Touch 3G smartphone but their availability and pricing were unknown. Today we can report that the Touch Viva will be available this month in Hong Kong at price HKD 2,880.
Customers who purchase this handset will get a Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional smartphone with 2.8” TFT-LCD QVGA touchscreen, 2 megapixel camera, 256MB ROM and 128MB RAM, Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900MHz support, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP, Wi-Fi and microSD memory card support.
HTC is one of the fastest growing companies in the mobile device market and today’s unveiled devices shows the strength it is bearing in market. In addition to the Touch HD, HTC Corporation has also unveiled the HTC Touch 3G and HTC Touch Viva. The Touch 3G and Touch Viva utilize TouchFLO which is HTC’s finger-touch optimized navigation experience by which you can have a one-touch access to messages and information.
The Touch 3G offers great touch phone experience with powerful Internet capabilities with wireless download speeds up to 18 times faster than standard 3G. With 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, AGPS, Wi-Fi and a 2.8-inch QVGA screen the phone has immense potential to be this years hit. With this users can zoom and pan Websites with one-hand. Touch 3G gives the facility to watch streaming video from YouTube. Forget old GPS systems now you can get directions and mapping with Google Maps for mobile and stay updated on the latest news with the integrated RSS reader. The handset also features Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, Qualcomm MSM7225 CPU at 528 MHz, microSD and 256 MB ROM / 192 MB RAM.
The second model, HTC Touch Viva supports much of the HTC Touch’s original feature-set. With Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional HTC Touch Viva will be rocking the same 2.8-inch QVGA display. It has a 2 megapixel camera, aGPS, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, and microSD card slot ensure that the HTC Touch Viva will still be able to bring a full-featured multimedia smart phone to the mid-range market. It measures 104.5 x 59 x 15.75 mm and weighs about 110g. It supports GSM/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz.
Both devices will be available in early October 2008. Although not known about their release in the geographical markets, HTC says it will be released in a variety of markets.
