HTC May Unveil iPhone-Type Smartphone on June 5

HTC -- the company behind many of the most popular Windows mobile smartphones -- has scheduled a big announcement for June 5, but so far has been very quiet about what it intends to reveal that day.

The company may be planning to unveil a smartphone with many of the features of the Apple iPhone, if an unconfirmed report on Smartphone Thoughts is correct.

HTC Elf (view large image)

This will supposedly be based on HTC's Elf, a Pocket PC phone with a consumer-oriented design (see image at left). Unlike previous devices on this platform, though, HTC has reportedly added multi-touch capabilities to this model, allowing users to more easily control it with their fingertips.

What's Multi-Touch?

Multi-touch is one of the features of the iPhone that has attracted the most attention. According to Apple, multi-touch will allow iPhone users to, "glide through albums with Cover Flow, flip through photos and email them with a touch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page."

Exactly what multi-touch will allow Elf users to do won't be known until June 5.

According to the unnamed source, HTC plans to release its multi-touch based smartphone worldwide.

More About the HTC Elf

The as-yet-unreleased HTC Elf will run Windows Mobile 6 Professional on a 201 MHz processor, and include 64 MB of RAM and 128 MB of ROM (35 MB user accessible). An SD card slot will also be included.

It will have a 2.8-inch, 320-by-240-pixel (QVGA) touchscreen and a 2.0 megapixel camera.

This quad-band GSM phone will offer GPRS/EDGE, but no 3G capabilities. It will have Bluetooth 2.0 but not Wi-Fi.

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