HTC S730
Expected
October 2007 1st October 2007
The HTC S730 is a pretty decent phone,
but let's get on thing out of the way first - it's a
pretty ugly phone too. There's a touch of East
German prison cell about the S730's looks, with gun
metal grey casing and a frankly unattractive overall
layout.
At first glance this is a pretty conventional
looking device, but it does boast a slide-out QWERTY
keyboard and that's not all. The S730 is an HSDPA capable
3.5G smartphone with WiFi running the Windows Mobile
6 operating system. The processor has been doubled in
clock speed from its predecessor, and now runs at 400
MHz.
There's a 2.4" QVGA display, although
it's not a touchscreen, microSD expandable memory to
add to the 256MB of internal Flash and Stereo Bluetooth.
On the back of the HTC S730 is a 2 megapixel
camera, which will be ideal for snapping photographs
of people recoiling in horror at just how bleakly depressing
the back of the S730 actually looks.
The
interface has been tweaked a little, giving the S730
the "HTC Home" screen, although as you can
see from the photograph above this is a pretty monochrome
affair which really does nothing to jolly the phone
up.
Because this is a Windows mobile phone,
the S730 can work with Microsoft Office documents, playback
a variety of multimedia files and work with push email
and standard internet protocols. The slide-out keypad
really gives the S730 the best of both worlds - it's
quite usable as a standard mobile phone, but also easy
to use for messaging.
Size and weight were not confirmed at
the time of going to press, but the S730 replaces a
handset that measured 101 x 50 x 18mm and weighed 120
grams, so expect it to be about the same.
HTC say that the S730 will be available
from October 2007 onwards, but did not give any pricing
information.
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HTC
S730 at a glance
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Available:
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Q4
2007
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Network:
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GSM
900 / 1800 / 1900 UMTS
2100
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Data:
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GPRS
+ UMTS (3G) + HSDPA
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Screen:
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240x320
pixels
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Camera:
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2
megapixels
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Size:
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Medium
monoblock Size / weight
tbc
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Memory
card:
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microSD
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Infra-red:
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No
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Limited
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Battery
life:
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Not
specified
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