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HTC Dream Engineering Drawings Reveal its Skinniness, Big Chin
Posted by Kit Eaton at 6:49 PM on August 26, 2008
Yesterday we had the FCC imagery to give us some of the HTC Dream's sizes, but today over at Androidguys.com they've got hold of engineering drawings that give us the full data: it's pretty skinny. Interestingly it's got a bent chin that looks a lot like the MotoRizr design, but the screen here slides to the side to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. By using the FCC dimensions and doing a little measurement it looks like the phone's body is around 0.64-inches (16.35mm) deep which makes it fatter than the iPhone's 12.3mm, but thinner than the HTC Touch Pro's 18.1mm. The screen bezel complies with an approx 3.5-inch screen, but doesn't confirm the size of the screen itself. We'll have to wait for the next leak for that. [AndroidGuys via AndroidCommunity]
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Diplomate
Posted 7:28 PM 26/8/08
So much for thumb typing with that big bulge on the right side... what where they thinking?
Diplomate
impliedsurprise
Posted 8:31 PM 26/8/08
maybe it's removable and it turns into a bluetooth headset? One can dream can't he?
impliedsurprise
Stacky Botrus
Posted 8:38 PM 26/8/08
@Diplomate: that's to bad you cant type :( might as well end it ALL!
Stacky Botrus
strider_mt2k
Posted 9:10 PM 26/8/08
Big Chin?
He runs the entire east side!
strider_mt2k
Diplomate
Posted 10:10 PM 26/8/08
Sorry for the rant, guys - but there's no delete feature here! :)
Diplomate
Diplomate
Posted 9:52 PM 26/8/08
@Stacky Botrus: BTW, according to YOUR language's grammar, that should be: "That's TOO bad you CAN'T type".
Diplomate
Diplomate
Posted 9:51 PM 26/8/08
@Stacky Botrus: Well, perhaps if English were your third language, you might also think about excusing a few typos.
Honestly, sometimes I cannot believe you guys! Such chauvinism...
Diplomate
Phineas J. Whoopie
Posted 11:05 PM 26/8/08
The screen looks to be 2.75 x 1.87 = 3.3" (diagonal), from the engineering drawing.
Phineas J. Whoopie
DarkHavoc99
Posted 12:01 AM 27/8/08
Mario Teaches Typing helped me...
DarkHavoc99
hiimcliff
Posted 11:55 PM 26/8/08
i'm still buying it. android + decent hardware + tmobz 3g = must buy for me.
unless there is a way to unlock aws spectrum support on the iphone 3g. (research is being done on howardforums.com)
hiimcliff
DarkHavoc99
Posted 12:40 AM 27/8/08
@Diplomate:
Well Mario Teaches Typing was for like MS-Dos. I think Touch-typing on a phone keyboard is Super Mario Teaches Typing.
DarkHavoc99
dingus
Posted 12:30 AM 27/8/08
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
JAYLENOPHONE!
dingus
Diplomate
Posted 12:22 AM 27/8/08
@DarkHavoc99: Touch-typing on a keyboard which fits in a smart phone? :)
Diplomate
Denholm
Posted 2:16 AM 27/8/08
@Phineas J. Whoopie: That's what I got too. Well, 3.27" is what I got, but close enough.
Let's just hope the LCD screen stretches all the way to the bezel, like the iPhone, wich ought to give the Dream a 3.2" screen. Quite a lot better than the shitty 2.8" of the Touch Diamond.
Denholm
jspeed04
Posted 5:10 AM 27/8/08
Just makes me wonder how this will sit comfortably in my pocket with that bulge sticking out. I'm afraid that it would auto-answer phone calls if I sat wrong. And dear God. HTC makes MUCH better looking keyboards than that. What gives?
jspeed04
jdbradford
Posted 11:59 PM 26/8/08
It's ALL about the chin!!
This is a mobile first, and a web browser second (or the other way round) - turn the device 90 degrees, tilted roller ball - fits nicely on the thumb and you're off - no dirty marks on the screen.
PS great for gaming?
PPS the logo on the back - let me suggest Google pay HTC $50 a handset for the PR - direct subsidy to get the google phone in the market cheap.
jdbradford
jdbradford
Posted 11:58 PM 26/8/08
It's ALL about the chin!!
This is a mobile first, and a web browser second (or the other way round) - turn the device 90 degrees, tilted roller ball - fits nicely on the thumb and you're off - no dirty marks on the screen - see blog post - [bit.ly]
PS great for gaming?
PPS the logo on the back - let me suggest Google pay HTC $50 a handset for the PR - direct subsidy to get the google phone in the market cheap.
jdbradford
jdbradford
Posted 9:39 PM 26/8/08
It's all about the chin!!
This is a mobile first, and a web browser second (or the other way round) - turn the device 90 degrees, tilted roller ball - fits nicely on the thumb and you're off - no dirty marks on the screen - see blog post - [bit.ly]
PS great for gaming?
PPS the logo on the back - let me suggest Google pay HTC $50 a handset for the PR - direct subsidy to get the google phone in the market cheap.
jdbradford
jdbradford
Posted 9:30 PM 26/8/08
It's all about the chin!!
This is a mobile first, and a web browser second - turn the device 90 degrees, tilted roller ball - fits nicely on the thumb and you're off - no dirty marks on the screen - check out the blog post [bit.ly]
PS great for gaming?
PPS the logo on the back - let me suggest Google pay HTC $50 a handset for the PR - direct subsidy to get the google phone in the market cheap.
jdbradford
glu
Posted 7:57 PM 26/8/08
It appears to as well designed (taking taper cues from Apple) and feature packed (qwerty, touch, dedicated keys) as one could have hoped. Has HTC been stockpiling all its best tricks for the Android debut?
glu