Taking a trip through time with the HTC Imagio
A little more than a month before the Motorola DROID was launched on Verizon, kicking off Androidmania, the carrier introduced the HTC Imagio. Powered by Windows Mobile Professional 6.5, the HTC Imagio featured a 3.6-inch screen with a resolution of 480 x 800. The Qualcomm chip under the hood carried a single-core 528MHz CPU and the Adreno 130 GPU. 288MB of RAM was inside along with 512MB of native storage. A 5MP camera was on back, and a 1500mAh battery kept the lights on.
This was an exciting time in the industry. Earlier in the year, the Palm Pre had been unveiled at CES, although it was already apparent that the Pre was under performing expectations. The Apple iPhone 3GS was launched in the summer; and on November 5th of 2009, Verizon released the Motorola DROID. Finally, Big Red subscribers had a phone that was just as capable as the Apple iPhone 3G. But that was still in the future when the Imagio was launched.
HTC Imagio commercial courtesy of Cell Phone Teck
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