We’ll confess, we’d kinda figured which HTC’s try into the seedy black market of dumbphones with a introduction of a Smart earlier this year was a non-starter as well as that it’d quietly fade into the night before 2010 was out, though assumingly not — at slightest, not if you ask AT&T. We’ve been slid a couple shots of a brand-new handset from HTC for Ma Bell going by a indication number F8181 (it’ll have a fancy name similar to “Bacon,” “Double Rainbow,” or “Nilay Patel” by a time it launches, patently that runs a Brew MP platform Qualcomm has been pulling this year for the sub-smartphone difficulty; of march, it seems to us which smartphone hardware is getting cheap sufficient to pull through nearly each price shred, but if you can expect this to be giveaway on stipulate, you suspect there competence be a market here. No word on dollars or dates just nonetheless, but of course, we’ll keep you in the loop.
Exclusive: HTC F8181 is AT&T’s BrewMP-equipped dumbphone

Via Engadget