HTC TyTN


The HTC TyTN 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, instant messaging, web browsing, 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 Also on AT&T, the TyTN was superseded by the HTC TyTN II, known as the AT&T 8925 and the AT&T Tilt.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:
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. 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.
Official ROM updates are or were available for several versions of the TyTN, including the AT&T/Cingular 8525, the Dopod 838Pro, the i-mate JASJAM, the O2 XDA Trion, and the Orange SPV M3100. Some of these updates update the TyTN to Windows Mobile 5 AKU 3.n.n, others update it to Windows Mobile 6.

Specifications

  • Screen size:
  • Screen resolution: 240×320 pixels at 139 ppi, 4:3 aspect ratio, flips into 320x240 landscape mode when keyboard is slid out.
  • Screen colors: 65536 colors
  • Input devices: Touchscreen interface, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and jog wheel
  • Battery: 1300 or 1350 mAh, user-accessible
  • Battery has up to 5–6 hours of talk on 3G network and up to 250 hours of standby.
  • 1.9 megapixel camera with fixed focus lens, LED flash, self-portrait mirror, and macro mode
  • Location finding by detection of cell towers and Wi-Fi networks
  • Samsung SC32442A
  • ATI Imageon Graphics Processing Unit
  • RAM: 64 MB DRAM
  • ROM: 128 MB flash memory
  • Removable Media: microSD, up to 8GB
  • 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.
  • Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE
  • Tri band HSDPA A UMTS 800 band option appears on some updated phones, but has not been confirmed to work.
  • Wi-Fi
  • Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
  • Mini USB combo jack for data transfer, charging, and multi-purpose headset.
  • Stereo headphone jack
  • IrDA
  • Size: ' '
  • Weight:

    Pre-Loaded Software

AT&T 8525 and Cingular 8525