Original URL: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/19/htc_shift_orange/
Orange to shift the Shift
19th February 2008 11:25 GMT
Orange has confirmed that it will exclusively offer HTC's Shift Windows Vista-running UMPC to Brits from the end of this month.
HTC's Shift: comes to Orange later this month
Rumours appeared earlier this month that Orange would be the first UK network operator to offer that Shift (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/07/htc_shift_expansys_orange/). However, the network operator's announcement appears to have come at the expense of online retailer Expansys, which has pushed its availability date for the device back from 19 February to 3 March.
However, you’ll still save around £120 (€155/$240) if you buy the HTC Shift from Expansys because it’s offering the shift for a device-only price of £880, whilst Orange has priced the Shift at around £999 (€1135/$2000), depending on your chosen contract.
The HTC Shift, which runs Windows Vista Business edition, has a 7in touch-sensitive display that tilts up to unveil a Qwerty keyboard. It provides data connectivity over quad-band GSM/GPRS/Edge and 3G HSDPA connections of up to 3.6Mb/s, in addition to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0. A fingerprint reader is built in too.