Today I was at the TINE 2006 tech show in Amsterdam to check out our competitors and scope out new trends in IT. While doing so I bumped into a booth run by what appeared to be the Dutch company that imports the I-Jam smartphones. As you might know (and if you didn’t: you do now) these phones are made by a Korean company called HTC and are sold under numerous names (I happen to own a Qtec S100 which is also a HTC made phone). Anyway, they also had some prototypes of new phones there – working! – and I played with one. It is a I-Mate Smart Flip. Or, better said the codename was “HTC Star Trek” (Qtec 8500). It looks al lot like the Motorola RAZR, but I think it is cooler. Apparantly it is not for sale yet so it was cool I could just get my hands on one and play with it. Apparantly it won’t be available until May 18th or so I read. So here is a little video of it in action (sorry, I filmed it with my crappy Qtec S100).
HTC Star Trek aka I-Mate Smart Flip aka HTC 8500
Now why is the name “HTC Star Trek” so appropriate? Well, another company at the fair had a booth build to mimic the bridge of the Star Trek Enterprise 🙂
Captain on the bridge!
Beam me up Scotty!