HTC execs say that the HTC Diamond is the most important product of this year, but I believe the Dream will outshine the Diamond in the categories of most innovative and most anticipated handset of the year. The long list of highly anticipated specifications will make the Dream, a dream phone come true for many people.
We can expect the HTC Dream to include many of the iPhone features in addition to haptic feedback and a physical QWERTY keyboard below the display. The Dream will no doubt be a gorgeous phone, but it is still nothing without the Android OS. HTC is part of the Open Hand Alliance. The company has committed to be among the first to launch an Android-powered phone.
There are reference designs of the HTC Dream floating around featuring a large screen where the unit measures 5-inch tall and 3-inch wide. I think HTC may reuse a lot of the hardware specs from the recently launched HTC Diamond. As far as hardware goes, expect to see nothing less than a 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera, a 4GB or 8GB of internal storage, integrated ultra-sensitive GPS and A-GPS ready, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, and integrated speaker and FM radio with RDS. The Qualcomm MSM7201A 528MHz chipset will likely power the HTC Dream. I hope the HTC Dream will have a much larger battery than the Diamond’s 900-mAh battery. There’s a really good chance that HTC will implement a TouchFLO 3D-like user interface for Android and reuse their touch-sensitive navigation control.
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