HTC Mapleのリーク画像？
It's been a long time coming, and it looks like HTC's finally gearing up to drop another portrait QWERTY device -- a dominant smartphone form factor that HTC has historically given surprisingly little love. Following the Excalibur (T-Mobile types know this one better as the Dash) and the 3G-capable Cavalier, CNET's Deutschland outpost has learned a bit about "Maple," and what the device lacks in beauty, it looks to make up in pure, raw, unadulterated productivity. You can't rightfully anoint it until you get your hands on it, but from a distance, this thing looks like it has one of the more usable portrait keyboards ever created, a trackball, and a cool new feature HTC is called "Inner Circle," which seems to aggregate communication with people you care about depending on the time of day and day of week.
CNETのドイツサイトにHTCのWM Standard採用のBlackberryスタイルな表面QWERTYキーボード搭載のデバイス"HTC Maple"が紹介されているようです！
丁度、X02HTの後継機の位置づけで、Blackberry Boldのように中央にInner Circleというトラックボールが付いているようです！
X02HTの後継機として日本のキャリアでも採用して欲しいっすね〜！(^^;
ところでこのコードネーム"Maple"って、カナダ→RIM→Blackberryという連想で、対抗機を意識している気にさせるのは気のせいですか？ｗ
