New HP Oak Windows Mobile Smartphone Set For Unveiling
HP is approaching the turn of two essential touchscreen phones. The Wall Street Journal hints that one of HP’s first touchscreen-focused iPAQ smartphones is due in Europe two months from now; the account directly supports a leak early in the year of the Oak that uncovers a hybrid touch and keyboard design designated for Vodafone. The earlier and more specified leak would give the phone a side-slider design with 7.2Mbps, HSDPA-based 3G as well as GPS and Wi-Fi.
The newsprint adds that the phone should be obtainable worldwide after the European release but doesn’t remark more specific dates or prices.
Engadget received the first exposures of the Silver, a candybar-style parallel to the Oak. It would lose the touchscreen and return to a SureType-style keyboard while maintaining the advanced 3G and Windows Mobile foundations of the larger and likely less affordable Oak.