A few months ago a pipe burst somewhere and a whole load of upcoming HTC handsets appeared. One of them was the HTC Maple, which a lot of people have been waiting for. Remember the HTC S620 (Excalibur) ? Yep, many do and many have been waiting for a newer version. Sure, there’s been an attempt at a QWERTY Smartphone from Palm but it just didn’t hit the spot for us.
The thin Smartphone has a 2 megapixel camera and some nice easy-to-find keys up front with an offset QWERTY. There’s the sliding panels interface and … oh .. can we buy it yet please? Yay! A QWERTY messaging Windows Mobile Smartphone at last!
Edit – Ahh, it looks like cnet.de may have removed the pics..
Link – cnet.de (via engadget)
HTC Maple – The QWERTY Smartphone is back!
March 3, 2009