Comments on: HTC Raphael details emerge

By: biggy b

biggy b — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:47:18 +0000

is this going 2 b out in tha us later or just not at all.

By: Siam Luu

Siam Luu — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:40:24 +0000

Well, this phone looks really cool, but will it break as easily as the original HTC Shadow that launched in the US about this time last year? But I am happy to see that T-Mobile has something in lieu of the Wing coming up! Woo-hoo!

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:39:29 +0000

this phone is going to be the shit. some one says the keyboard looks like that of the mogul and It might be because this phone is replacing the mogul! plus this phone would suck on tmo. tmo has a sucky 3g and service in general. The phone is suppose to go to sprint in about september from what I’ve read in other articles. Im using my Mogul right now and I can’t wait to upgrade to the Touch Pro a.k.a Raphael

By: ubergoober

ubergoober — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:11:58 +0000

I’m not digging the keyboard. It looks similar to the one on my Mogul with the keys virtually flush with the slideout panel. very hard to guage where one’s fingers are, as opposed to, for example, the Tilt’s keyboard keys which are more differentiated.

By: Dayne

Dayne — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:17:56 +0000

@Louis that was funny

By: PHug

PHug — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:51:10 +0000

all that wasted screen potential…
It has a frigggin keyboard why cut 30% of the screen off?

I’ll wait for something better designed

By: Dayne

Dayne — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:39:35 +0000

Whoever thinks this is going to be out for tmobile AND have 1700mHz band is dreaming. The Xperia was announced in Feb stating it would have a Tmo 3g band and they have completely cancelled that version of the Xperia, so the HTC Raphael is probably going to follow suit. Manufacturers aren’t going to go out of their way to make a phone that they probably won’t get to sell (tmobile’s 3g rollout is still PAINFULLY slow)

By: mr.magnificent

mr.magnificent — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:49:32 +0000

@ hydro

Lacking in the states…..
Shit check out our phones in canada….they suck!

By: alcoholicaust

alcoholicaust — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:11:29 +0000

the american dollars so weak, i wouldnt be surprised if we started seeing less and less and less cool stuff released in the colonies.

why would i want make believe us money, when i can have euros.

By: Gaines

Gaines — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:47:17 +0000

This is going to be an AWESOME phone.

http://www.HTCRaphael.net

By: Louis

Louis — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:45:22 +0000

HTC released the Touch Dual as tri-band and followed with a quad-band. It’s all about carrier interest in the U.S. I’m sure we’ll see a U.S. cariant with quad-band GSM.

Also, 460×640 isn’t a resolution supported by WM. I think you mean VGA resolution, 480×640.

Dayne… calm down.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:14:49 +0000

The original report said the Diamond and Raphael were CDMA and destined for Sprint. I know CDMA gets everything after GMS but the hope that I might have a Raphael alternative to the iPhone was my last link to Sprint. I’m just not feeling the love!

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:37:49 +0000

I wish t-mobile in the us will have a touch phone is the US besides this Wing. I hate having this Wing.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:11:06 +0000

Dayne, it doesn’t have to be EDGE on T-Mobile. It just has to support 1700MHz spectrum UMTS to work on T-Mobiles (obviously limited at this point) 3G network.

By: Dayne

Dayne — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:45:02 +0000

WHO cares if this thing comes to Tmo since it will only be EDGE. And WHY would HTC “dumb mobility” make this thing TRI band where it won’t even work for ATandT?????? Any serious GSM smartphone user who needs a fast data network in the US is on AtandT so why would you cut 45 million potential customers off by not having quad band GSM and tri-band HSDPA????? I just don’t get it. It’s like every phone they make is missing one or two things. ALL they had to do was make this like they’ve been making EVERY other phone the last 3 years and it would be an iphone killer (not the only one). But instead they cut off the serious smartphone buyers in the US, and with their last fiasco of the video drivers, you’d think they’d be trying to make up some ground….They just made my decision for me: Xperia X1 over you HTC, and even if you made the hardware for the X1 you sure as heck aint getting the money you wish you were from me…

By: Jeff B.

Jeff B. — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:32:50 +0000

Yea, I like my Tilt better. X1 HERE I COME!!

By: nick

nick — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:24:02 +0000

slide the keyboard closed and it looks awefully like the rumored spy pic of the shadow 2 that was posted on here…… i bet this does come to tmobz stateside…..

By: BrianC

BrianC — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:53:28 +0000

According to the spec, it has 256MB RAM and 512 MB ROM and with the support for microSDHD, things are looking good.

Some previous report also listed TV-out ( or VGA output) as a feature. Hope this is still the case. I would love to use the device for broadroom presentation.

Now between Sony X1 and HTC Raephael, it is really hard to decide which one is the best smartphone of the year.

By: Jerruhh-Meee

Jerruhh-Meee — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:03:12 +0000

we SOO need a cdma version for sprint….!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:33:54 +0000

So buying that when I hit Taipei for COMPUTEX

By: This Guy

This Guy — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:46:11 +0000

uhhhh….where is the video review for the Nokia E71?

By: jason L

jason L — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:29:53 +0000

unfortunately tmobile in the nyc/nj area is horrible so it would suck for it to go to tmobile for me. any other carrier, i would definitely pick one up.

By: Nando

Nando — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:59:28 +0000

PLEASE T-MOBILE U.S.!!! HOOK US UP WITH GREAT 3G SMARTPHONES!!!!

By: Flux

Flux — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:55:55 +0000

The o2 Xda orbit2 (aka HTC Polaris) has Triband HSDPA and Quadband EDGE

By: B

Wed, 28 May 2008 18:50:25 +0000

PLEASE come to T-Mobile US w/ 3G. PLEASE.

By: Mockerfab4

Mockerfab4 — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:31:56 +0000

::drool:: This needs to be out soon on Tmo in the US. Tmo needs to give us more smart phones, like NOW!!!

By: hydr0

hydr0 — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:12:09 +0000

SMH

when will TMO USA get this? or ANY touch screen device for that matter.. damn they slackin here in the states..

By: JMTS

JMTS — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:10:21 +0000

Shadow 3? Hopefully!