HTC's September 1st event to feature only Windows Phone Mango devices: Eternity, Omega

HTC plans to introduce two new Windows Phone Mango devices, the HTC Eternity and HTC Omega, at a special event on September 1st... HTC's September 1st event to feature only Windows Phone Mango devices: Eternity, Omega – BGR

BGR has exclusively learned that HTC plans to unveil several upcoming Windows Phone Mango devices at the company’s upcoming event taking place on September 1st. While Android is HTC’s bread and butter of course, our source confirms that Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone OS, Mango, will be the star of the show this time around. We have heard HTC will specifically be unveiling the HTC Eternity, a Windows Phone with 3.7-inch display headed to AT&T, in addition to the HTC Omega, a 4.5-inch Mango phone that is headed to T-Mobile USA. We don’t have exact launch dates at the moment, but we’re told that they could come sooner than expected. HTC declined to comment.

Tags: HTC, HTC Eternity, HTC Omega, launch, Mango, microsoft, release, specs, Windows Phone

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Dream

No CDMA/LTE ???

http://twitter.com/dustbeta Dustin Schultz

CDMA is dead. I am leaving Sprint for AT&T for a Windows Phone. And the CDMA devices that do come out usually have no global roaming, like the HTC Arrive. Sprint and VZW need to get with the program.

http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

How is CDMA dead? Global Roaming isn’t something most people look for when buying a phone. Verizon is easily the best carrier when it comes to data(grandfathered unlimited.) WP7 is the next webOS.
http://twitter.com/drumboy_ Aaron H

As the world shrinks, not having a phone that uses the global bands is a pain in the F’ning ass. I am not buying a phone that I can’t pop in another SIM card in another country. I suppose you would suggest buying two phones? CDMA is a piece of trash as well as Verizon’s LTE which is CDMA ver. 2.0
IPwn

Aaron,
Sounds like you need a little education on CDMA. Code Divison Multiple Access is superior in SOME ways than GSM. Being connected to more than one tower at a time and not having to hand off calls from tower to tower is one. CDMA is more expensive which is why GSM is the world “standard” it is cheaper and easier to deploy.

Second, Verizon’s LTE network is GSM and operates on the 700MHz spectrum. Verizon’s new LTE phones require a SIM card.
Anonymous

That would actually be QNX, you’ll see.
Osanilevich

CDMA can be good but why even bother when the rest of the world is GSM? It’s exactly what happened with the metric system
Rob Garfinkel

Uhm… the HTC Trophy with verizon has global roaming… so… wrong…?
guest

Yep. I looked under my battery, and there it was. A Vodafone-branded sim card.
Anonymous

Sprint has Motorola Photon, a dual band (CDMA/GSM) phone. Dual band is the future not GSM.

http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

Thank god!!! No more stupid F-ing REDUNDANT DROID releases!!!! It’s a miracle!!
Anonymous

Good to know that I can safely miss that, then.

http://profiles.google.com/arvydasg.93 Arvydas Grušeckas

Too bad that you are shitdroid lover… WP7 will rock the world

Anonymous

Why so angry? I hope WP7 does well, but I’m not interested in it. I know that might be difficult for you to believe, but there it goes.
http://twitter.com/manozz Gundruk

metro UI homescreen looks nice but for me, I think I will get bored of that very soon. Think about widgets, live wallpaper, different homescreens, themes, and now think about few tiles on the homescreen, change the color of the tiles and you are stuck with those tiles forever. I know those tiles look cool but the question is for how long?
Anonymous

The colors can get boring yes…. but as far as the homescreen itself I find myself starring at it some time because of all the information comming to it. See the updates from Groups/People/Me tile. But it my home screen very personalized with the pictures and updates.
Anonymous

The Metro interface exists for one reason: to mask the fact that Windows phone has no Apps. Microsoft had no choice but to devise a look-and-feel that would hide the platform’s lack of Apps. If a Windows Phone App Store (apologies to Apple) ever does achieve a critical mass of programs, this interface will get in the way of the user experience and fall by the wayside.
NorwegianDude

Oh, you mean all those things that make android devices suck battery?

Seriously, Android-peeps need to come off their “look, my phone can do everything” high horse. Phones don’t NEED to be like a PC. They need stability, battery life, good call quality and a reasonable selection of (real, working, useful) apps.
Anonymous

hdboy, wp7 has 30,000 apps in a matter of months. fastest growing app store ever.

enjoy your android malware.
http://twitter.com/Translatethis27 Translatethis27

I also like WP but I want the MS ends up being a patent troll. And withdraw lawsuits against B & N and Motorola.
Anonymous

microsoft must sue them for patent infringement.
I’m Kick-Ass!

Meh, Microsoft already owns my ass on the desktop/laptop platforms. Where an I going to turn: Linux? OSX? Why should I give them my phone business too when there are excellent alternatives.

I hope WP7 stimulates competition in the marketplace, but I’m staying with Android for now.

Charles Clout

I’ll be keeping an eye on it. HTC makes some fantastic handsets and WP7 isn’t bad at all.

Should be a good event.

Anonymous

4.5inch Mango device? …. I’d have to check that out…. But since TMOB never has functional phones on the Floor i’d have to “ASK” a rep to use one
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VWQKVM377B6HWYVWLFKZP7IAOE Wallace Hunt

I got an iPad 2-32GB for $ 23.87 and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 657 which only cost me $ 62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from,http://x.co/ZBpb

zacamandapio

And I bought an HP Touchpad from Amazon for $99.
Not a bad deal, right?
Anonymous

Suck it wallace, we don’t want your fecal spam
Kirty

I just bought an HTC Eternity for $ 12.43. yay! Wallace is a moron…

http://twitter.com/dustbeta Dustin Schultz

Finally some official announcements coming. I may not be able to wait until next year for Nokia, this BB is killing me and I need some WP love.

http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

You say CMDA is outdated above but you are praising Nokia, BlackBerry and WP7? Someone likes underdogs.

Symbian is terrible and Meego is Android Lite if you ask me.
BlackBerry is dead in the water.
WP7? I don’t want a Zune phone.

http://twitter.com/SirCatalyst Justin Vincible

Um,

1. Nokia is making WP7 devices, that’s why he mentions them, and he’s not exactly “praising” them.
2. He says “this BB is killing me” which is the opposite of praise.
3. You sound like you’ve never used a WP7 device. Try it before you knock it as a “zune phone”. It’s much more than that.

You really just sound like you wanted to be argumentative.
http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

I own a WP7 device and it 100% feels like a ZunePhone. The UI is clean but its execution is really poor. These are my opinions.
http://twitter.com/SirCatalyst Justin Vincible

@twitter-133878082:disqus If you don’t want your “zune phone”, sell yours or give it to me. My wife wants one because of my Quantum.

http://twitter.com/Translatethis27 Translatethis27

Dual Core?????
http://twitter.com/Translatethis27 Translatethis27

3D? I Love 3D
Anonymous

No Verizon love?

Welp…I guess I won’t taste any Mangoes in the near future…
Anonymous

Apple rumors/hype will overshadow any announcement MS could make.
Anonymous

Way to poop on their parade…
Anonymous

Who in their right mind you sign any length of contract with T-Mobile anyway?
Jp_9571

3.7″ display? Wasn’t a requirement from Microsoft to be at least 4.3?

Anonymous

No. There are already phones out with 4″ and less screens. They have a resolution requirement, not a size requirement.

chicago proud

From what I’ve read the HTC Eternity will have a 4.7 display…not a 3.7 display.

http://twitter.com/SParKlngCyaNide SparklingCyanide

that’s not true, only a rumor.

http://www.facebook.com/aedebiri Airen Edebiri

I’m just curious, considering that most WP7 have very similar specs, except maybe for form factor, what differentiates all these phones? Like why would I choose one WP7 device over another? I’m an Android user that loved Windows Mobile, but I can’t get into WP7 at all, especially since the UI is the same on all WP7 devices.

Anonymous

If you have no beef with Nokia, I say wait to see how Nokia customizes the OS. So far, via their partnership they are the only OEM allowed to make said changes to the OS. Now, if you don’t like them or the U.I. is boring because it is the same on all devices. Obviously Android is the way to go for you most likely, but at least you are keeping options open.
Devon Garner

I think the user is what makes the phone! The picture hub and group hub seems to be better than android. I feel bad about my android right now between the FC and all trying to find a picture for the home screen. I think I am really liking the idea that WP7 is using. If only I could find one to actually try. They seem to only have dummy ones everywhere I go!

Anonymous

I thought the Eternity was the 4.5 incher. Anyway, I want this on AT&T. I might just have to get one and carrier unlock it. I won’t miss 3G because I rarely get anything near 3G speeds anyway.
http://twitter.com/palfrei Peter Palfrei

@gundruk I love Android widgets too but whenever I wake up to go to work in the morning and my widget clock tells me it still is 5 pm in the evening from yesterday I realize there’s something wrong with the platform.

I had three different launchers on my Android phone and ended up
uninstalling them. Wenever a new OS update came out, the launchers
became incompatible so I decided to use stock Android because it’s
faster and less bog-prone.

It’s a shame because I really liked Launcher Pro but I couldn’t stand
having to wait for a minute for any program to open because of the lag
caused by the software incompatibility. In the end, I don’t care about how
the widgets or tiles look like for as long as they work properly.

http://twitter.com/Translatethis27 Translatethis27

Ballmer show us the sales of WP7. And stop being a patenttroll.

Anonymous

Stop being a blogtroll.

Anonymous

hhhmmmmm… i wonder why the sudden focus on WP7 phones from HTC?
we all know Android is their bread-n-butter. either HTC is genius, and they
realize they need to give WP7 more attention and love considering they do
sell handsets from microsoft… or the googorola deal is chafing just a little.

Anonymous

So, they decided in a week’s time to “bang out” a couple of Windows phones??
Anonymous

HTC already had the most WP7 devices out. I don’t think this has anything to do with the moto deal. They’ve been working with MS from the start on WP7 devices.

Anonymous

The hardware of HTC phones are good. But the designs sucks.
http://twitter.com/Translatethis27 Translatethis27

Microsoft is a Patenttroll

Anonymous

Get a job.

Anonymous

so why can’t you see-ee-e..
J. Williams

well, t-mobile is getting a nice one. Wow
Anonymous

those guys really do make a whole lot of sense man. Wow.

http://www.web-anon.at.tc
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_B4OGBROXQZNX5C4XDTX6ICYMXQ Gilda Cameron

I just paíd $22.85 for an íPad 2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her her Panasoníc Lumíx GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.78 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $625 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, CentHûb.côm
http://twitter.com/bufbarnaby Joe

I want Mango on the N9..And I want it NOW !!!

HTC's September 1st event to feature only Windows Phone Mango devices: Eternity, Omega

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