News on the Wizard

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Ok here is a quick round up of the news that is currently available on this device. For anyone who doesnt know the wizard looks like it is going to be the follow up to the magician. Size wise it is almost identical except the wizard looks like it is going to be a touch thicker than the magician. However this is forgiven as this extra thickness is due to the addition of a sideways slide out keyboard (see pic) This will please many owners of the magician who have found text input a little to fiddly on this device. It is rumoured that the device will be made available in a number of different versions i.e. some with a camera some without etc. However it is generally thought that the specs for the various models run along the lines of a 200MHz OMAP processor (hmm i hope that is quicker than it sounds?! :shock: ), GPRS/EDGE, built in WiFi and Bluetooth. The scrren size is 240x320 and it runs on WM5!

It is already expected that the device will be sold under various different brandings. Many of the pics floating around the internet show the device branded as Qtek 9100. It is also almost 100% confirmed that orange will offer the wizard as the SPV M600 and it could hit the shelves as early as september!!! No doubt the other opperators will also offer the phone under various different names!

Phone Scoop reports that the HTC Wizard has passed FCC certification, and the submitted version has 850 and 1900MHz support which is good news for those in the us.

Pics are courtesy of WindowsMobile.no and there are many more available HERE
And there is a video available HERE which is also thanks to those good people at WindowsMobile.no

Enjoy:




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but it's cpu speed is 175mhz.

Hmm Edge ... No use in UK then for Imternet speed

There are also pictures of a CDMA version. Sprint is calling it the PPC-6700 and it should be out before the end of October.

Report with pics on PCSintel.

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

There are also pictures of a CDMA version. Sprint is calling it the PPC-6700 and it should be out before the end of October.

Report with pics on PCSintel.

PhoneArena has an article on the CDMA implying a fast Intel processor, not the slow TI everyone is concerned about:

http://phonearena.com/htmls/HTC-Apac...cle-a_643.html

i'm gonna cry

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see my sig? i thought it was enough compensation that the wizard has a slow processor - won't make me sad that i didn't wait for it. now this CDMA version will really make me cry. BTW is CDMA = 3G? currently doing a google search on this. and how comparable is its size compared to the magician/non cdma-wizard? i mean, the size might change because of the antenna, but i want to know by how much.

(i forgot one more thing, hence the editing)
would've been excellent if only the screen slides out, so it looks like the sidekick. awkwardly off-center screen. but i can live with that.

CDMA itself is not 3G, no. But the CDMA carriers in the USA have EVDO, which is a 3G technology. So, CDMA is not 3G, but if it's CDMA in the USA it means it will be 3G, assuming it supports EVDO.

On the size, look at the picture showing it next to the Samsung i730. It's the same size. Too bad it has a big, fat antenna. But not counting the antenna, it's the same size as the Samsung i730.

http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/fo...ive_or_pdf=pdf

Nice to know

yeah it looks good, i may replace my mda compact, but the processor is the only thing at tho that may let the device down :?:

info on the omap850 chip

http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtb.../data/omap_850

Rumor has it that the CDMA version (Sprint PPC-6700) does have EVDO, which (like SaltyDawg said) is 3G.