HTC TyTN

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 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 Also on AT&T, the TyTN was superseded by the HTC TyTN II, known as the AT&T 8925 and the AT&T Tilt.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:
 * 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: 2.88 in
 * 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 (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 8GB (microSDHC, up to 32 GB if running Windows Mobile 6 )
 * 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 (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.
 * Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
 * Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
 * Mini USB combo jack for data transfer, charging, and multi-purpose headset.
 * Stereo headphone jack (certain models only?)
 * IrDA
 * Size: 112.5 mm (h) 58 mm (w) 21.95 mm (d)
 * Weight: 176 g

Pre-Loaded Software
(Varies by operator)

AT&T 8525 and Cingular 8525
 * AOL Instant Messenger
 * ClearVUE PDF
 * Excel Mobile
 * Good Mobile Messaging
 * Pocket MSN
 * PowerPoint Mobile
 * Smart dialing
 * TeleNav
 * Windows Live Instant Messenger
 * Word Mobile
 * Xpress Mail
 * Yahoo! Instant Messenger

Discussion Forums

 * HowardForums HTC Forum
 * HowardForums Windows Mobile Professional Forum
 * HTCGeeks Forum
 * PDAPhoneHome HTC TyTN Forum
 * PPCGeeks HTC TyTN Forum
 * XDA-Developers HTC TyTN Forum