HTC Merge
Cellular South Also to Sell HTC Merge World Phone
Cellular South today announced plans to offer the HTC Merge, which is a GSM/CDMA Android world phone. It goes on sale in April, though pricing wasn't revealed. The Merge is also being offered by Alltel, and a Verizon-branded version has cleared the FCC.
Hands-On: HTC Merge
HTC's Merge world phone for Verizon Wireless was on hand at CTIA. Here are our initial thoughts about HTC's world-roaming CDMA/GSM wunderfon.
HTC Announces 'Merge' CDMA World Phone
HTC today announced the Merge, a new CDMA/GSM world phone that runs Android 2.2 and has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for messaging. The Merge has HTC's Sense user interface overlay and offers a 3.8-inch touch display, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, flash, and 720p HD video capture, GPS and Wi-Fi. HTC didn't say which carriers would offer, but specified that North American operators would sell the Merge, which it says is its first CDMA world phone, this spring. Both Verizon Wireless and Sprint have offered dual-mode CDMA/GSM world phones in the past.
