HTC and T-Mobile Launch Ameo Smartphone

HTC, the smartphone and PDA manufactuer has launched its latest smartphone exclusively with T-Mobile in the Germany and the Netherlands. It is not known if the phone will be available on the T-Mobile network in the UK.

The HTC Ameo is a Windows Mobile-powered device with a 3.5-inch touchscreen display and unique fold out QWERTY keyboard. It also features a 400Mhz Samsung processor, b/g Wi-Fi connectivity, 3 megapixel camera and includes 64MB RAM and 256MB ROM. The device weighs only 355 grams.

T-Mobile and O2 have traditionally been the first to take new HTC models, but in 2006 HTC started to brand its phones with its own label and offer them to the UK market independently of network operators.