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HTC Viva will be in Malaysia very soon
I had the chance of playing with the new HTC Touch Viva yesterday in Malaysia and I must certainly admit that I was very surprised by this little baby of a device. Pleasantly surprised, in fact!
Especially given the entire package of the Viva with almost everything you would want in a PDA phone together with the PRICE of …
Arc Slider Design
The X1 comes with what Sony Ericsson calls an Arc Slider Design where by sliding out the screen reveals a really neat keyboard. The screen slides out and slightly up in an arc fashion, hence, the name. But it doesn’t tilt upwards like the HTC TyTN II, just slightly up. It’s somewhere between the TyTN and the TyTN II. What you will find in the brush metal body bracing the keyboard is a set of great QWERTY keys and those keys are probably one of the best I’ve used so far. We’ll tackle the screen in another posting. More on the keyboard.
I had the privilege to meet up with X1 from Sony Ericsson this afternoon at a secret location. He was cautious to meet with me because his time is not yet come. Fortunately, this meeting was arranged by a very good friend who could pull strings in high places for me. This secret meeting revealed a closer look at the X1 albeit from my early impressions for now. X1 allowed me to take some pictures with him and I will be sharing some of them here over the coming weeks.
SE Xperia X1 - Better looking than Nokia E90
Sony Ericsson’s 1st entry into the Windows Mobile device was announced in February 2008 (read here). After that, nothing much was heard. SE alluded to a 2nd half availability of the device. Given my experience with Windows Mobile device development and marketing, it’s not easy to come out with a quantum leap device to overtake the market leaders like HTC and Samsung who have had a few more years of experience working on such devices. SE’s Xperia X1 does show a lot of promise for a 1st product and given all the specifications and pictures of the device, I must say that it is indeed a sweet little baby of a device and much better looking than the Nokia E90 for sure.
But is it still coming to town after all this while?
HTC was the first to react to the Apple iPhone last year when that cool device hit the market. 
Even though the iPhone was restricted to the US market with its operator partner AT&T Cingular, HTC knew that the innovative user interface of the iPhone had captured the imagination of PDA Phone device users worldwide. HTC calls it TouchFlo. Can it match the iPhone?
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