The HTC TyTN (also known as the HTC Hermes and the HTC P4500) is an Internet-enabled Windows Mobile Pocket PC smartphone 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 including 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 browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity. It is a quad-band GSM phone with GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, and HSDPA. It is a part of the first line of phones 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 Also on AT&T, the TyTN was superseded by the HTC TyTN II, known as the AT&T 8925 and the AT&T Tilt.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

The TyTN Model was sold as:

• HTC TyTN 100
• AT&T/Cingular 8525 (US)
• Dopod 838Pro (Asia)
• i-mate JASJAM (Middle East)
• NTT DoCoMo hTc Z (Japan)
• O2 XDA Trion
• Orange United Kingdom SPV M3100
• Qtek 9600
• HTC TyTN 200
• Dopod CHT 9000
• HTC TyTN P4500
• SoftBank X01HT (Japan)
• Swisscom XPA v1605
• Vodafone v1605 (Europe)
• Vodafone VPA Compact III
• HTC TyTN 300
• T-Mobile MDA Vario II

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. 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 (AKU 3.3.0). 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 143 ppi, 4:3 aspect ratio, flips into 320x240 landscape mode when keyboard is slid out.
• Screen colors: 65536 (16-bit) 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 (through Google Maps Mobile)
• Samsung SC32442A (400 MHz ARM ARM920T processor)
• ATI Imageon Graphics Processing Unit
• RAM: 64 MB DRAM
• ROM: 128 MB flash memory
• Removable Media: microSD, up to 4 GB (microSDHC, up to 8 GB if running Windows Mobile 6Fact: date=July 2008)
• 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 6.1 available.
• Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE (GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900)
• 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.Fact: date=July 2008
• Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Mini USB combo jack for data transfer, charging, and muti-purpose headset.
• Stereo headphone jack (certain models only?)
• IrDA
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