According to Taiwanese DigiTimes, HTC is expected to launch its second TouchFLO-controlled smartphone supporting UMTS and HSDPA standard perhaps as soon as September, market sources also indicated that it would get launched in Asia first and then Europe and then in US market. The new smartphone is likely to be the HTC P5500 (codenamed Nike) which the company unveiled in the first half of this year, indicated the sources, noting that the P5500 will be built using a CPU from Samsung Electronics and chipsets from Qualcomm and supporting the WCDMA standard.
If this news turns out to be true, then this HTC Nike is a HTC Touch look-alike Windows Mobile 6 Professional smartphone with TouchFLO touch screen technologies but furthermore adds a auto sliding keyboard.
Further features are expected to include USB 2.0 client, 60Mbit/s, USB Series Mini-B (mini-USB) connector, Bluetooth 2.0, 2.8MP camera on the backas well as a frint facing QVGA video telephony camera, 128 MB ROM, 64 MB RAM, and a microSD. WiFi wasn't mentioned so far but hopefully it would be there.