I was going through my bookmarks for posts about Five Technology and came across two reports I’d forgotten all about.
These are from mid-October at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair. Five Technology was displaying a Mini 3 model they never released and never mentioned again [Google Translate, Google Translate]:
A render with a light back and plastic endcaps. Wild!
And it existed as a demonstration model. Notice the lack of the iFive skin:
Given that big flap in the render, you’d think it would be using the Huawei UltraStick. But no. It’s hiding a conventional SIM slot:
At the time the original news items were published, this was to use Android 4.1 with a Qualcomm CPU.
Given that months have since passed without it showing up on Five’s own site, I have to wonder if technical or market issues prevented its release.
