Sprint has confirmed that it will directly launch the HTC Snap S511 Windows Mobile smart device on June 21st, after first launching via Radio Shack and Best Buy locations this week.
The S511 Snap was originally slated for a June 7th launch direct from Sprint, but the carrier made a last minute decision to postpone the launch in order to focus on the Palm Pre.
The HTC S511 Snap features nearly identical specifications as the GSM version with a QVGA landscape display, Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard, A-GPS dual band US CDMA EVDO Rev. A, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios, Qualcomm 7501a chipset with 256MB of RAM and 128MB of ROM running at 528 MHz, speakerphone, and 2.0 megapixel camera with video recorder.
The Sprint version of the Snap will also feature an increase in battery capacity, with the 800mAH battery being swapped for a larger 1500mAH unit as well as HTC’s Inner Circle software which groups email by contact importance.
The S511 Snap is available now from Best Buy for $519.99 with no service agreement, or as low as $149.99 with new service agreement. The Snap is also available at Radio Shack for the same aforementioned terms.
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Now, I’m looking for a simple qwerty phone with texting, so the Blitz and the dash are ideal for my needs. But the Snap looks like what I might really want.
Seems like a cool device, unfortunately it’s running Windows Mobile. Windows is the worst mobile phone OS ever made, it’s pathetic and completely unsupported by Microsoft and the carriers who provide it. The only hope this phones will realize its full potential lies in the hands of hackers who build functional versions of the OS and publish them for free on the internet.
share your views at http://www.HTC-Snap.org take care.
No Wi-fi? Don’t wannit.
Oops, didn’t see the Wi-fi spec mentioned in the list, sorry. Now I’m intrigued
WinMo 6.1? I’d rather wait for 6.5 – even it there is a “free upgrade” because you know sometimes carriers will back track.
Hey abcyesn what do you mean windows mobile is the worst os ever made? Once they released windows 6.0 and 6.1 and now 6.5 windows is a pretty good os. But maybe your right, that is why windows mobile is in almost 80% of all smartphones out there. Your right windows is not a good OS, you know everything.
Looked at one yesterday at Radio Shack. They had it listed for $99. Typical HTC plasticky cheap-feeling device, small cramped keyboard, but manageable. I’m on Verizon though, so it was nice to find VZW will have it as the Ozone, essentially the same apart from cosmetic differences and it will have a global GSM radio in it too.
WinMo t.1, 6.5, I don’t care, as long as it runs my apps. I personally don’t give a hoot about the Pre’s, iPhones and Androids.
This looks like a Palm Pro to me, except the Palm has a more solid feel to it.