When it comes to smart phones, nothing beats being on top of the food chain. And while Apple is enjoying the biggest market sales, it is HTC that is currently holding the new ground in terms of the best hardware. And by saying hardware, we are certainly referring to the new Snapdragon processor on the upcoming HTC Mondrian smart phone.
Yes, Snapdragon. The same old QSD CPU from Qualcomm; but this one is the QSD8650-A and it is clocked at a speed of over the standard Snapdragon chips –it goes all the way up to 1.3GHz. Outside of over clocking, this makes the Mondrian the fastest smart phone to be announced. It will be a while before this phone actually store shelves and it is possible that it will not be the first device to use the new chip to get stocked on shelves. The same thing happened to Sony Ericsson –they were the first to announce that they were working on an Android smart phone with a 1GHz CPU; the Nexus One beat them to retail availability for several months.
Back to the Mondrian, this impressive phone comes complete with a yet to specified internal camera, a 4.3 inch capacitive touch screen (many are willing to bet that it will be an AMOLED display) and of course, the upcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile platform. This officially makes the Mondrian the second WP7 phone to have a name (the first being LG’s Panther which features a slide out QWERTY keyboard). HTC has yet to release images of the Mondrian, though it has been stated in earlier reports that the device will be a standard touch screen handset (type-1 chassis).
HTC and Microsoft have recently made an agreement for the Taiwanese company to use MS patents –it is reported that Microsoft would have a percentage of sales for every Android smart phone that HTC sells.
