HTC, Russian carrier Scartel intro world’s first GSM/WiMAX phone

HTC, along with Russian carrier Scartel have just unveiled the world’s first integrated GSM/WiMAX handset — the HTC Max 4G. The new handset has taken plenty of design cues from the HTC Touch HD and has a solid feature set. To begin with, the Max 4G has built-in support for WiMax, and it takes advantage of that support. When calls are made in-network, they are automatically switched over to the WiMax network and handled as a VoIP call.

Other features of the Max 4G include a 3.8-inch touchscreen display with an 800 x 480 resolution, GPS, WiFi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth, 8GB of built-in flash memory, an accelerometer, a 5-megapixel camera with a second VGA quality camera on the front, a 3.5mm headphone jack and an FM radio. Additionally it will be running Windows Mobile 6.1 and powered by a 528 MHz Qualcomm ESM7206A processor.

As of now a release date has not been announced, of course, this one is not destined for the US market anytime soon, so no sense in holding your breath.

Keep reading to check out the full press release…