http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/09/07/htc-excalibur-news/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/09/07/htc-excalibur-news/comment-page-1/#comment-141306 Treo’s disfigured grandson, Gandolf, let out of the attic to watch the franchise die | BlackBerry Cool Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:47:12 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=2256#comment-141306 [...] Is this really going to be Palm’s new image? Some HTC Excalibur knock-off that hit every branch on the way down the fugly tree? If so, the Treo 800w is going the last hoo-rah at a recognizable image, but also shows that Palm is eschewing the PDA end of things in favour of smartphone development. The shots are Vodafone branded and running Windows Mobile Standard for now, but we’ll see what changes are made to this crime against good taste before it’s released. [...] [...] Is this really going to be Palm’s new image? Some HTC Excalibur knock-off that hit every branch on the way down the fugly tree? If so, the Treo 800w is going the last hoo-rah at a recognizable image, but also shows that Palm is eschewing the PDA end of things in favour of smartphone development. The shots are Vodafone branded and running Windows Mobile Standard for now, but we’ll see what changes are made to this crime against good taste before it’s released. [...]

]]> http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/09/07/htc-excalibur-news/comment-page-1/#comment-46108 BlackBerry Cool » Unwired reviews HTC Excalibur Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:15:47 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=2256#comment-46108 [...] Well, technically speaking, Unwired reviewed the smartphone formerly known as the Excalibur, full-name being the O2 Xda cosmo Windows Mobile Smartphone (maybe their Prince fans, maybe they’ll have a symbol for it next week). We talked a little bit about the Excalibur last week, and while there’s no pretty hands to speak of this time, there’s still some solid info. All the features … are pretty standard, for top class smart phones, but the highlight of the device, which makes it so different to all previous HTC Windows Mobile Smartphones, is the integrated thumb-keyboard and the HTC JOGGR control pad, which replaces the rocker/wheels, previously used for Smartphones. [...] [...] Well, technically speaking, Unwired reviewed the smartphone formerly known as the Excalibur, full-name being the O2 Xda cosmo Windows Mobile Smartphone (maybe their Prince fans, maybe they’ll have a symbol for it next week). We talked a little bit about the Excalibur last week, and while there’s no pretty hands to speak of this time, there’s still some solid info. All the features … are pretty standard, for top class smart phones, but the highlight of the device, which makes it so different to all previous HTC Windows Mobile Smartphones, is the integrated thumb-keyboard and the HTC JOGGR control pad, which replaces the rocker/wheels, previously used for Smartphones. [...]

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