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HTC Passion and Verizon spend some time together
November 28, 2009 | by Evan Selleck
Android, Android Phones, Carriers, HTC, Uncategorized, Verizon
At least on a website. Oh, and don’t forget our hopes and dreams. This one is a short one, as we don’t really have much to go on here except a working link, and a pretty hazy picture, but we can’t help but get excited about this. Even if there is a possibility that it is fake.
The HTC Passion is a phone that we’ve mentioned a few times, but let’s catch up on the basics real quick. First and foremost, this is the first Android-powered device to truly run a 1 GHz, Snapdragon processor under its hood. If you’ve got a good memory for random Android phones that are released, then you’ll probably remember the Acer Liquid, which was also carrying a 1 GHz processor within the casing. The Liquid doesn’t actually run at 1 GHz, as Acer chose to underclock the processor to somewhere in the 700 MHz range, which means that the Passion could, if everything goes according to plan, be the (legitimately) fastest running Android device available on the market. Also worth mentioning, is the fact that the Passion is set to launch with Android’s Eclair, or Android 2.0, along with HTC’s Sense UI. Sense 2.0, more or less.
Now, this website. As you can see from the picture above, this thing can be hit or miss. It’s really up to you whether or not you want to believe its legitimacy, we guess. But considering the mumblings of the phone’s existence haven’t gone away, and the “holiday season” is quickly approaching, there’s no reason why this site couldn’t be real. Here’s the fine print: “Coming Holiday 2009.” We’ve got our fingers crossed in any case, and we hope that we get to see some kind of official statement here in the coming weeks. If anything, just so that we know there’s an update to Sense around the corner. Yeah, that’d be nice.
[Thanks, Nick via HTC Passion website]
I had to squint to see that .Makes you second guess getting a droid.
I know how you feel; I'm still squinting, well after looking at it for the first time. I'm hoping that this is a clever marketing scheme by Verizon: it'll get easier to read gradually, as the release date of the phone gets closer. That sort of thing. And while I'm not much of a fan of hardware keyboards, I think that alone is one reason to keep the DROID over the Passion/Dragon. Plus, the amazing screen the DROID offers.
I so want this to be true.
You've got to be kidding. That's it??
What picture above? It's missing.
Look again, it's there.
I think this is total crap to get everybody talking. Look who the domain name is registered through "NameCheap.com"
Pretty sure Verizon and HTC do not use them. Just my opinion.
You're probably right. Even the fact that it's so hard to read, as our comments will clearly show, makes it hard to believe that Verizon or HTC would put the site up at all, if this was their goal. The rumors are still flying about the Passion and they aren't going anywhere soon, so putting up a site like this wasn't really going to do much. Except get that huge fan out.
But we'll see. There isn't much time left, anyway. There's also the possibility that the person who did create the site knows something we all don't, and put up the site for that reason alone. So many possibilities, and all of us only really want one.
you guys do understand that the site that was referenced is total bull shit right?
OLD NEWS FOLKS!!!! I have been looking at this for site for 2 weeks now!!
Have you tried to use our Contact Us page?
http://androinica.com/contact-us/
You know how sometimes you won’t like a person just ‘cause of their first name? Like, I never like people named Roger because they make me think about Roger Rabbit, and that movie effin’ freaks me out, y’all.