HTC’s long-rumored Maple smartphone has just been announced by the company: Europeans will know it by the name Snap, while the US 3G version will go by the somewhat weird name S522.
Specs-wise, the device can be considered a breath of fresh air for the WMS sector – it has a 528MHZ QualComm CPU paired up with 128MB of RAM and 256MB of ROM. Unfortunately, the camera is still a 2MP one, and the screen still didn’t evolve from QVGA.
Software-wise, HTC has tweaked Windows Mobile Standard 6.1 heavily…the device includes a so-called unified inbox along with the previously mentioned Inner Circle feature (pictured above).
Engadget Mobile had a bit of hands-on time with the critter and generally liked it:
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having an utterly awesome keyboard certainly helps in that regard. It’s easy to pass off HTC’s latest portrait QWERTY handset as a bit frumpy from photographs, but trust us when we say that it’s totally passable in person (some might even call it insanely attractive) — think of it as the anti-8900, if you will.
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A few pictures of the new UI can be found at the URL below:
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/01/htc-snap-hands-on/
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