CDMA and GSM

The Fuze is quite a bit smaller than the Tilt at 4.02? x 2.01? x 0.71?. It is still a little more weighty (5.8 oz) than I hoped, but I did enjoy the fact that it easily fits in the palm of my hand without feeling bulky or clunky. HTC opted for a more glossy black look this time, with a rectangular look instead of rounded. The back of the Fuze has a style similar to that of the Touch Diamond, with triangles positioned in a interesting manner. I felt it was a unique twist and a bold move, considering the Fuze’s target audience will be more business-oriented. Well, after all the leaks and rumors, AT&T Fuze (aka HTC Touch Pro) is finally available.

And to help you decide whether it’s worthy your attention or not, we already have a full AT&T Fuze review for you.

I had the opportunity to get my hands on an AT&T Fuze a couple days ago to demo and review in time for the anticipated launch of November 11. The AT&T Fuze is Big Blue’s version of the HTC Touch Pro, a device that has already been available outside North America and was launched recently by Sprint. This particular phone is replacing the year-old AT&T Tilt that overall was a good phone but due for a face lift. Read the rest of this entry »

The HTC Touch Viva is a slight upgrade to the original HTC Touch, the main improvements being a software update, more memory and better battery life. This is a GSM-only handset with no 3G support, although it does come with WiFi connectivity. When the original Touch came out, the lack of 3G was annoying, but the Touch range now also has the HTC Touch 3G if you need UMTS support. The screen on the Touch Viva is a 2.8″ 240 x 320 pixel touch-sensitive panel. On the back is a fairly basic two megapixel camera, and the Touch Viva supports Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 and microSD expandable memory. Internal memory is now 128MB (up from 64MB in the original), and the operating system is Windows Mobile 6.1 with HTC’s enhanced TouchFLO interface running on top.

Inside is a 210 MHz TI OMAP 820 processor, the same as the original Touch. This isn’t particularly fast, but it should get most things done.

HTC say that the 1100 mAh battery can now give the Touch Viva up to 8 hours talktime and 11 days standby time. If this is the case, then that is a significant improvement over the original Touch. Overall, the Touch Viva is a little larger than its predecessor at 105 x 49 x 16mm, but slightly lighter at 110 grams.

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Coming from HTC, one of the most prestigious manufacturers of Windows Mobile devices, the S710 is actually the first smartphone released by the Taiwanese producer featuring Windows Mobile 6 Standard. The main novelty brought by the device is the full QWERTY side-sliding keyboard, previously found only in Pocket PCs, which hints that we are dealing with a messaging phone. 

Also known by the name of HTC Vox, the smartphone made its way on the market in August 2007, and can be purchased for a price around $460. Several operators are offering rebranded versions of the handset under the names Orange SPV E650, Vodafone VDA V, Vodafone v1415, Dopod C500. Read the rest of this entry »

This strange looking device is the HTC S740, a Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone with both a standard numeric keypad and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The HTC S740 follows on from last year’s S730, a very similarly specified device but one which we roundly criticised for being astoundingly ugly. Well, there’s no doubt that the S740 looks different with styling copied from the HTC Touch Diamond, but the result is that the styling may not be to everyone’s taste.

Underneath the S740’s radical exterior and unusual sliding QWERTY keyboard, the S740 is a conventional non-touchscreen device with a 2.4″ QVGA screen, 3.2 megapixel fixed focus camera, video calling, quad-band GSM plus GPRS and EDGE data, UMTS and HSDPA support in the 900 and 2100 MHz bands, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, and microSD expandable memory. The HTC S740 also has built-in GPS / A-GPS and an FM radio, all running on top of the Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard operating system.Internal memory consists of 256MB of Flash and a useful 256MB RAM. The S740’s processor is a Qualcomm MSM7225 running at 528MHz which should be broadly similar to the speed of the CPU in the Touch Diamond. Read the rest of this entry »

HTC Touch Dual. This is now a 3.5G device with HSDPA high-speed data, UMTS (i.e. 3G), EDGE and GPRS connectivity - this is certainly something the old model needed. HTC have also included a slide-out keypad that comes in two variants - a 16 key “conventional” number pad or a 20 key hybrid QWERTY/number pad similar to the layout of the BlackBerry Pearl. In our view the standard number pad adds very little to the HTC Touch Dual, and the 20 key pad will be more useful. It’s not clear which carriers will be offering what versions of the Touch Dual, however.We very much wanted to say that the HTC Touch Dual was an improved version of the Touch - but there are a couple of catches. The first problem is that the Touch Dual has ditched WiFi, a feature that the original Touch had. And then the screen has shrunk to a 2.6″ panel from a 2.8″ one - that might not sound like much but that will be quite noticeable if you put the two versions side-by-side. Despite this, the HTC Touch Dual is slightly heavier than the original Touch, probably mainly due to the keypad. Read the rest of this entry »

The HTC Touch Pro is a business device with 3D touch user interface, desktop-like browsing and 5-row sliding QWERTY keyboard. It offers touch screen technology with TouchFLO 3D, for one touch scrolling through common tasks like messaging, calendar appointments or making calls. Music, photos, contacts and surfing the web are also responsive. Delivering HSDPA 7.2 Mbps speeds, the Touch Pro views and navigations websites designed for PCs. Surfers can zoom and pan with one-hand and view content created to fit the display. Turning the handheld sideways automatically rotates the webpage view from a portrait to landscape. Built-in TV-out functionality, users can deliver PowerPoint presentations from the handheld. The 3.2-megapixel camera includes an optical auto-focus lens for clear and consistent photos. The 2.8-inch display provides web browsing and viewing of snapshots. Read the rest of this entry »

Windows Mobile ‘Smartphones’ don’t have touch-screens, so there was no option for an on-screen tappable keyboard or handwriting recognition such as you find in Windows Mobile Pocket PCs, or, as we are obliged to differentiate them these days, Windows Mobile 6 Standard (smartphone) and Windows Mobile 6 Professional (Pocket PC) devices. All rather confusing especially when the term smartphone is commonly used to describe a phone with advanced, PC-like functionality.

Anyway, the upshot is that mobile email fans were somewhat locked out of being able to carry small Windows Mobile smartphones and still do email. The S710 changed that with its mini QWERTY keyboard which slides out of a long edge as required. The screen’s display rotated into wide format as you slid the keyboard out, ready for you to type away. Read the rest of this entry »

The HTC P6500 is a handset aimed primarily at large corporate customers who want a platform that they can build business applications on - it isn’t aimed at the consumer market and will probably not be available through standard retail outlets.
This is a Windows Mobile 6 device with a large 3.5″ 240×320 pixel anti-glare touchscreen, a 3 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, a barcode scanner, a fingerprint sensor for security, twin SDIO ports for memory expansion or peripherals and the P6500 has built-in GPS.
Network connectivity is via tri-band HSDPA and UMTS or quad-band GSM with GPRS and EDGE data. The P6500 also has WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0. Read the rest of this entry »

An unusually large PDA-style smartphone, the HTC P6300 (codenamed the “Panda”) is a Windows Mobile 5 device that is almost exactly identical in size to HTC’s earlier device sold as the O2 XDA II from way back in 2003.
Be in no doubt - this is much larger than most tablet-style smartphones at 170 x 70 x 18mm and 160 grams in weight (just 20 grams lighter than the O2 XDA II). The large size means a large screen - in the case of the HTC P6300 this is a 3.5″ 240×320 pixel touch sensitive display, plus a 2 megapixel camera, SD memory slot with SDIO capabilities, Bluetooth and WiFi support. Read the rest of this entry »