HTC roadmap leaked, with product photos: Legend, Salsa, Tide, Buzz, Bravo, Photon, Trophy and Pidlimdi

Part of HTC’s 2010 roadmap has been leaked by “B3ler3fonte”, penis of the xda-developers fourm. The 8 new devices capitulation into 4 new segments that HTC will be targeting, in much the same means that Nokia (New York Stock Exchange: NOK) or Sony Ericsson (New York Stock Exchange: SNE) butt different audiences depending on the merchandise organism marketed. In the “Design/Lifestyle” class we have “Legend”, the heir to the HTC Hero that we heard about over the weekend, and “Salsa”. Legend, pictured below, will rich person a 3.2 inch capacitive OLED blind, measure 111 mm long, 57 mm wide, and only 11.4 mm thick. It will rich person quadband GSM/EDGE, dualband (900/2100 MHz) 7.2 Mbps HSPA, wireless local area network, Bluetooth, GPS, a 5 megapixel camera, optical mouse, 3.5 mm earphone jack, 1300 mAh battery, and tally on Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM)’s MSM 7227 which was announced earlier this class as a budget chipset for delivering submarine $150 smartphones to marketplace. That doesn’t mean value the Legend will monetary value under $150 of course of action, especially with that OLED screen. Expect it to his the market in March 2010.

The Salsa is a budget QWERTY device. Due in June 2010, it will be loony thin, only 8.6 mm. At 65 mm wide, it’s wider than the iPhone 3GS, and it’s also 115 mm tall. It will rich person quadband GSM/EDGE, dualband (900/2100 megahertz) 7.2 Mbps HSPA, wireless local area network, Bluetooth, Global Positioning System, a 3.2 megapixel photographic camera, 3.5 mm earphone jack, 1100 mAh battery, and tally on Qualcomm’s MSM 7225 processor, the same unity that powers the first gear remainder HTC Tattoo. It will rich person a 2.6 inch QVGA (320 x 240 pixel) blind, so this is definitely going to be priced to relocation.

Next in HTC’s roadmap leak we have the “Social” segment. This contains the “Tide” and the “Buzz”. The Tide, pictured below, is the first Android gimmick with a standard T9 keypad. It has roughly the exact same specifications as the Salsa. Quadband GSM/EDGE, dualband (900/2100 MHz) 7.2 Mbps HSPA, 3.5 mm earphone jackass, WiFi, Bluetooth, Global Positioning System, 3.2 megapixel photographic camera, 2.68 inch QVGA (320 x 240 pel) blind, 1130 mAh assault and battery, Qualcomm MSM 7225 processor, all in a 114 mm tall, 53 mm wide, 13 mm thick parcel. Expect it to hit the market in April 2010.

Buzz looks like the HTC HD2, but it’s far, far slower and less impressive. It has a 3.2 inch QVGA (320 x 240 pixel) blind, 5 megapixel camera, 3.5 mm headphone jackass, wireless local area network, Bluetooth, Global Positioning System, quadband GSM/EDGE, dualband (900/2100 megahertz) 7.2 Mbps HSPA, all in a package that is 11 mm thick, 105 mm tall, and 60 mm wide. Again, like the Salsa, it volition have the Qualcomm MSM 7225.

Now we’ve reached the “Performance” segment. This is the unity all of you guys maintenance about. The “Bravo” volition be the only gimmick in the segment in the first half of 2010 and it volition be the first base Qualcomm Snapdragon Android gimmick offered by HTC. It volition run at 1 GHz, have a massive 3.7 inch WVGA (800Ч480 pixel) OLED display, quadband GSM/EDGE, dualband (900/2100 megahertz) 7.2 Mbps HSPA, 5 megapixel photographic camera, 720p video transcription, wireless local area network, Bluetooth, GPS, 1400 mAh assault and battery, 3.5 mm headphone jackass, and the same optical joystick as seen in Legend. When volition this come out? April 2010.

The next 3 devices (”Photon”, “Trophy”, and “Terra”) belong to the “Productivity” segment, and they run Windows Mobile River 6.5. The “Photon”, as seen below, looks like the heir to the Touch Diamond 2. It has Qualcomm’s new MSM 7227 mainframe, quadband GSM/EDGE, dualband (900/2100 megahertz) 7.2 Mbps HSPA, wireless local area network, Bluetooth, 3.5 mm headphone jack, 5 megapixel photographic camera, 3.2 inch HVGA (480 x 320 pel) screen, and a 1300 mAh battery. It’s only departure to be 10.9 mm thick, 104 mm tall and 57 mm wide. Expect to see it on store shelves in Apr 2010.

“Trophy” is the monoblock QWERTY shape gene that BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) owners all know and lovemaking. Under the hood we rich person a 3 inch VGA (640 x 480 pixel) blind, 5 megapixel photographic camera, huge 1400 mAh assault and battery, wireless local area network, Bluetooth, Global Positioning System, quadband GSM/EDGE, dualband (900/2100 megahertz) 7.2 Mbps HSPA, Qualcomm’s new MSM 7227 processor, all in a package that is 11 mm midst, 119 mm tall, and 58.4 mm wide. It volition beginning shipping in May 2010.

Last we rich person “Terra”, which looks exactly like the Touch Pro 2, except it’s all black and has a 3 WQVGA (480 X 272 pixel) in screen versus the 3.6 in WVGA (800 x 480 pel) blind in the Touch Pro 2. You get WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, quadband GSM/EDGE, dualband (900/2100 MHz) 7.2 Mbps HSPA, Qualcomm’s new MSM 7227 processor, a 3.2 megapixel camera, and a 1300 mAh battery.

Conclusion: What we’re seeing here is HTC acquiring into the first gear to mid end. They’re recycling old designs, and building them on top of new first gear cost, low end processors, and will predictably monetary value these things to amplification market share and build sword commitment. It’s a act disappointing that HTC isn’t going to be releasing more high end devices, but it makes mother wit since seasonally speaking the first one-half of 2010 usually doesn’t get a lot of gross sales. The second half of 2010 is a whole other story, or at least I hope it is a different story, because if it isn’t then 2010 will be known as the class that the industry took the smartphones of 2009, slapped on a new coat of rouge, and priced them at one-half the cost in an attempt to get the smartphone sphere to grow.

Mobile River World United States Congress will be interesting.