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HTC at CTIA 2009 + real-life photos of HTC Snap smartphone April 02, 2009 [General] | By Edward J. R. While HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2 were unveiled by HTC (for the first time) at Mobile World Congress 2009 in February, at CTIA 2009 HTC has presented for the first time the HTC Snap - a phone with nice QWERTY keyboard but without touch-screen. 
(on photo above: Eric Lin from HTC is presenting HTC Touch Pro2 at CTIA 2009) Here you can see some real-life photos of HTC Snap smartphone: 
Note: while HTC Snap is a nice 3G phone with WiFi and GPS, it doesn't have camera with autofocus (it has only fixed focus camera) and it doesn't support 3.5 mm stereo miniplug, so if you are listening to music or podcasts on your phone, you should't buy this phone. All in all nothing much new from HTC - it looks like they have 3 main form factors only: smartphone with touch-screen and without keyboard, smartphone with touch-screen and with horizontal slide-out keyboard, and smarpthone with single-handed QWERTY keyboard but without touch-screen. Unfortuantely HTC still is not releasing phones in the form factor that is preferred by many (as Samsung Epix and Palm Treo prove it): single-handed QWERTY keyboard and touch-screen. Furthermore clearly HTC is ignoring customer needs as they continue to release phones with their propietory headset connector - so called "ExtUSB" - instead of using industry-standard 3.5 mm stereo miniplug. In other words: users either are forced to use proprietary headsets from HTC or adapters to standard headsets - what is extremely annoying and cumbersome. Obviously, after so many years, HTC still doesn't understand what customers need. It is very sad and indicates that in long-term HTC might fail. See also: more information about HTC Snap. Photography: Mickey Papillon from The Cellphone Junkie Podcast.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
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