I’ve just had the European price for the HTC Shift confirmed. The Tablet Store, an authorised HTC Shift reseller in Munich, Germany, has told me that the price they’ve posted today is based on real pricing and not just guesswork. How does 1199 Euro sound? It sounds pretty damn competitive to me and Samsung might have to rethink their pricing structure, especially for the Q1b HSDPA and Q1 Ultra HSDPA models. The TabletStore are gearing up for a late October / Early November availability of the HTC Shift but we know how these things go don’t we! US customers should expect to see similar pricing in dollars and availability at around the same time but that’s just my estimate.
For official launch date, look to GITEX in Dubai. I’ve had a couple of tip-offs on this and have made enquiries on the back of it. HTC and at least one of their big distributors will be there and I think through the feedback I’ve had, one of those ‘well I can’t say you’re wrong…’ type of answers, I can safely say that the HTC will launch between the 8th and 10th of September. The other launch option is one week later at the Intel Developer Forum but there’s no indication that HTC will be there.
Regarding the unknown screen resolution issue, it seems that no-one knows for sure. All the way up the reseller line through the distributor and back to HTC, no-one is giving an answer. Maybe the screen resolution specification is still to be decided. Even if Hugo Ortega gives us the detail from the prototype he had, it might not be the final spec.
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