The HTC TyTN (also known as the HTC Hermes and the HTC P4500) is an Internet-enabled Windows Mobile Pocket PC PDA designed and marketed by High Tech Computer Corporation of Taiwan. It has a touchscreen with a left-side slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The TyTN's functions include those of a camera phone and a portable media player in addition to text messaging and multimedia messaging. It also offers Internet services such as e-mail (including Microsoft's DirectPush push e-mail solution, as well as BlackBerry services with applications provided by BlackBerry-partnered carriers), instant messaging, web browser, and local Wi-Fi connectivity. It is a quad band GSM phone with GPRS, and EDGE, and a single/dual band UMTS phone with HSDPA. It is a part of the first line of PDAs directly marketed and sold by HTC. On AT&T/Cingular, the TyTN was the successor to the HTC Wizard, known as the Cingular 8125. Also on AT&T, the TyTN was superseded by the HTC TyTN II, known as the AT&T 8925 and the AT&T Tilt.
Versions
Besides the branding differences, there are several models of the HTC TyTN: the TyTN 100, the TyTN 200, and the TyTN 300. The TyTN 100 has no front-facing camera or a .1-megapixel front-facing camera; the TyTN 200 has a .1-megapixel front-facing camera; and the TyTN 300 has a .3-megapixel front-facing camera.
The TyTN Model was sold as:
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HTC TyTN 100
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HTC TyTN 200
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HTC TyTN 300
ROM Updates
The TyTN shipped with
Windows Mobile 5 AKU 2.3.
HTC released AKU3 ROMs to carriers, though it was up to the carriers to provide updates to end users.
[ HTC TyTN ( HTC Hermes ) will get ROM upgrade with AKU3 ] In July 2007, HTC released a generic update to Windows Mobile 6, freely available to the public.
In November 2007, AT&T released an update to Windows Mobile 6.
[ HTC: Support: AT&T 8525 Software Downloads ]
Official ROM updates are or were available for several versions of the TyTN, including the AT&T/Cingular 8525,[ Unlocked PDA Cell Phones | i-mate ] the O2 XDA Trion,
Specifications
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Screen size:
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Screen resolution: 240×320 pixels at 139 ppi, 4:3 aspect ratio, flips into 320x240 landscape mode when keyboard is slid out.
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Screen colors: 65536 (16-bit) colors
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Input devices: Touchscreen interface, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and jog wheel
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Battery: 1300 or 1350 ampere hour, user-accessible
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Battery has up to 5–6 hours of talk on 3G network and up to 250 hours of standby.
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1.9 megapixel camera phone with fixed focus lens, LED flash, self-portrait mirror, and macro mode
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Location finding by detection of cell towers and Wi-Fi networks (through Google Maps Mobile)
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Samsung SC32442A (400 MHz ARM architecture ARM920T processor)
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ATI Imageon Graphics Processing Unit
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RAM: 64 megabyte DRAM
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ROM: 128 megabyte flash memory
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Removable Media: microSD, up to 8gigabyte (microSDHC, up to 32 gigabyte if running Windows Mobile 6
[Up to 32 Gb according to HTC Wiki page ])
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Operating System: Windows Mobile 5.0 stock ROM with Windows Mobile 6 available to upgrade through HTC e-Club. Unofficial cooked roms for Windows Mobile 6.5 available.
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Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE (GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900)
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Tri band HSDPA (UMTS 850, UMTS 1900, UMTS 2100) A UMTS 800 band option appears on some updated phones, but has not been confirmed to work.
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Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
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Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
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Mini USB combo jack for data transfer, charging, and multi-purpose headset.
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Stereo headphone jack (certain models only?)
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IrDA
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Size: (h) (w) (d)
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Weight:
Pre-Loaded Software
(Varies by operator)
AT&T 8525 and Cingular 8525
Notes
The TyTN has a
GPS receiver, however it has no GPS antenna and the GPS is disabled both in ROM and physically through disconnection of certain pins on the circuit.
Early models of the TyTN (HT624xxx - HT632xxx) have been known to suffer from screen alignment problems and should be avoided.
See also
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HTC Wizard
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HTC TyTN II
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High Tech Computer Corporation
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