1.07.2011

Leaked Phone Roundup: Motorola Cliq 2, HTC Thunderbolt, More PSP Phone

Another day, another round of leaked phones.  Since they'll take up too much space to devote an entire post individually, we decided we'll just regularly round up all of the day's "outed" handsets in one fell swoop.

Motorola Cliq 2

The blog CellPhone Signal leaked a picture of the next phone in the Cliq series.  Like its predecessor, the handset will sport a horizontal slider form factor with a QWERTY keyboard.  If you look at the keyboard in the photo, it looks like some kind of weird embedded buttons thing -- expect Motorola to make much fuss about that one when this comes out.  No actual leaked specs, but the camera will be 5.0 megapixels (presumably, with 720p video recording).

HTC Thunderbolt

Verizon has been teasing this phone by putting a cloth over it on their website.  Well, here's the leaked image to ruin the surprise (and it's not all that pretty after all, as it turns out).  Likely specs include a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen, LTE network support and everything else that the HTC Evo 4G has.  There's an official press conference next week, so we'll know for sure anyway.

More PSP Phone

The latest in the PSP phone rumor mill is that it will be called either the Zeus Z1 (unlikely) or the Xperia Play (more likely).    Expected US and European release is set for Spring of 2011.  Not much more on the actual relevant questions, though, such as how it ties in with the regular PSP and  all that, so there's still nothing much to see here.  Happily move right along.

[CellPhoneSignals, Droid Life, Asahi Shimbun]