HTC Excalibur smartphone FCC approved - must be coming to USA soon
August 22, 2006 [MS Smartphone] | By Edward J. R.
HTC Excalibur may have too slow processor for Skype, but it has built-in Wi-Fi and QWERTY keyboard for single-handed usage and is very small, so it may find fans after all...
The FCC code of HTC Excalibur is "NM8EXCA":
... and from the FCC documentation the following can be confirmed:
- Wi-Fi is built-in
- the phone is Quad-band GSM (GSM850, GSM900, DCS1800, PCS1900) with Internet access through GPRS and EDGE, no 3G/UMTS
- also 802.11g (fast Wi-Fi) seems to be supported, not just 802.11b
- HTC requests confidentiality for photos of the phone and the user manual until October 2nd, 2006, what indicates that this phone may be commercially launched in October this year!
- it looks like model "EXCA100" - without jog bar - is being approved by FCC, it could be that EXCA200 - the model with jog bar - will be on sale overseas, but not in USA
More information about FCC approval of the first HTC manufactured smarpthone that will be able to compete with RIM BlackBerry, can be found here.
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