Palm is Life Administrator (and Gear Diary Team member) Larry just sent several links to the latest information on the HTC Athena, or Dopod U1000 as she will be known in Asia. Larry said, “Athena will launch February 2007, at NT$39900.

Taiwan.CNET is offering the following specs and pictures, but the price – being approximately $1200US…is just…ouch. :-(

dopod u1000 firstlook01

Obviously some of the following information is still in Chinese, but you should be able to tell the gist of it…

?? Dopod U1000 Dopod 900
CPU Intel PXA270 624MHz Intel PXA270 520MHz
??? 256MB+128MB+8GB(ROM+RAM+????) 128MB+64MB(ROM+RAM)
?? 5? VGA??? 6?5?? 3.6? VGA???
???? GSM 850/900/1800/1900 ?UMTS 2100MHz ?HSDPA?3.5G? GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900? UMTS 2100MHz 
???? ??2.0(??A2DP)?SiRF III GPS?????Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g ??1.2?Wi-Fi 802.11b
???? 300??? CMOS???+30?????? 130??? CMOS???+10??????
??? miniSD?????4GB Mini SDHC(SD2.0) SD?SDIO
?? ?????Qwerty?? ??QWERTY??
?? 133.1x 98x 16 mm 127.7x 81x 25 mm
?? 375????????? 285?????????

…the 5″ VGA screen makes me want to forgive a multitude of sins…

dopod u1000 firstlook02

Hopefully the $1200 price is an anomaly, as it doesn’t jibe with other information coming in.

dopod u1000 firstlook03

And for those of you wondering what in the world you would do with a wireless enabled PPC tablet of this size: don’t discount the Athena until you have actually seen it, held it, tried it, played with it… ;-)

Phone Daily Dopod U1000 & Taiwan CNET on the Dopod U1000

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