Sprint 2009 roadmap leaked: HTC Rhodium, HTC Cedar, Samsung Dash, BlackBerry Niagara and 8 others

If this newly-leaked Sprint roadmap is legit, the second largest North American CDMA carrier will have at least 10 new handsets to offer in the upcoming months.

First of all – as expected – it’s said the Palm Pre will be introduced in the second quarter of 2009, thus in April, May or June.   

Unsurprisingly, the Pre is targeted at “high-end consumers and business users who need to stay connected to their office and who will benefit from fast EV-DO rev. A data speeds and a full functional device.”

Next, Q2 2009 should also bring the following devices to Sprint:

• Samsung Dash, featuring a 320 x 480 pixels touchscreen display, 5MP camera and EV-DO Rev. A connectivity. It’s presented as the ”second generation Instinct” 
• HTC Cedar – a “low cost smart device” with WM 6.1, a QWERTY keyboard and EV-DO Rev. A connectivity
• Samsung Mini, which is obviously the Instinct Mini / Instinct S30. It should come for an affordable price
• Samsung Lucello (or Cello) – messaging phone with an alphanumeric keypad and a full QWERTY keyboard
• Sanyo 2700, a low-cost messaging device with a QWERTY keyboard
• LG LX-370 – a basic slider

In the third quarter of 2009, Sprint should release the following handsets:

• Samsung Chianti – QWERTY slider presented as a “green device” and targeted at “affluent female customers”    
• Samsung Ace II – obviously replacing the first Samsung Ace. It has Windows Mobile 6.1, QVGA display, QWERTY keyboard, 3MP camera, EV-DO rev. A and GSM connectivity
• BlackBerry Niagara
• Kyocera-Sanyo 3810 – simple clamshell

There’s also the HTC Rhodium on Sprint’s roadmap. This is actually the HTC Touch Pro2 with EV-DO rev. A and HSDPA connectivity. It should be out in Q4 2009. What’s weird is that the Rhodium appears as running on “Windows 7.X”, although Windows Mobile 7 will only be launched in 2010.

Anyway, since for the moment we can’t confirm that all the above-mentioned devices will be indeed launched by Sprint, we can only wait for more official details to come up.  

Source: Phone News via BGR

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Posted on 16 Mar 09 - Filed in HTC, Samsung, Sprint, Windows Mobile - Comments - Written by ilinca

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