HTC S730 MOBILE PHONE - IN EXCELLENT CONDITION

HTC S730 specification:

· Windows Mobile 6 Standard (Smartphone)

· 400Mhz ARM1136EJ-S CPU

· ROM: 256MB ; RAM: 64MB SDRAM

· 2.4" TFT LCD 240 x 320

· Quad-Band HSDPA/UMTS

· WiFi: 802.11b/g

· 2.0 Megapixel main camera

· Bluetooth version 2.0

· 1050mAh Lithium Ion battery

· MicroSD card slot

· 22-key fixed phone keypad

· Slide-out QWERTY keyboard

· 50mm x 100mm x 19mm

· 120 grams

GENERAL

The HTC S730 comes as the successor of the S710, updating it with 3G HSDPA 2100MHz support and front-facing camera for video calling. The processor speed is doubled to 400Mhz but other features are kept the same, and the S730 is typical WM6 Standard smartphone with WiFi and 2-megapixel camera.

The design is very similar to the predecessor and also has numeric keyboard on the front and side-sliding QWERTY. An enhanced version of the successful HTC S710 handset that launched earlier this year, the HTC S730 adds 3G/HSDPA and a 400MHz processor for those consumers and business professionals who want high speed connectivity.

It is a stylish and compact phone which features an auto-sliding QWERTY keyboard making it an ideal choice for the mobile professional who needs easy access to email, messaging and the internet while out of the office.

The HTC S730 comes equipped with Windows Mobile 6 and 256MB Flash memory wrapped in a sleek gun-metal grey casing. Combining functionality with a compact, stylish design, the HTC S730 keeps you in touch and productive while on the road.

Much more than just a phone, its powerful features make light work of email, web and calls. With the complete suite of Microsoft Office Mobile applications you can open and edit documents while on the move, and the compact phone slides to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, enabling fast typing and dialling. Important information is just a glance away with the Live HTC Home screen, giving you an instant view of email, calendar, messages, missed calls and more.

With email directly to your phone, super-fast internet access, and a full range of connectivity options, you can be sure to be kept in touch no matter where you are in the world.

The HTC S730 Wings Smart Phone is based on a dual keypad design with both a numeric keypad on the face of the unit, and a slide-out QWERTY keypad.

The S730 Wings features Windows Mobile 6 Standard, a Samsung 400MHz processor, and a 320x240 QVGA 65K TFT display. With a 2 megapixel camera, the S730 Wings includes quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 2100Mhz 3G/HSDPA, and Wi-Fi.

This is another BIG device for HTC. Perhaps not to the same scale as the Tytn 2or the Touch series – but it’s got to be number 3 in line.

It sounds too good to be true really – a candybar phone, a large QWERTY keyboard and the still new Windows Mobile 6, with decent connectivity via 3G.

SOFTWARE

Let’s take a quick look through the start menu then. Internet Explorer is there, so is Windows Media Player, and the usual array of productivity built in apps such as Tasks, Calendar and Contacts.

Phone tools, including Call History and Messaging are on the first page as well, which is completed with the Settings app and Office Mobile – yep Office is there too!

On the second page of the start menu – more common Microsoft stuff with Games and Accessories subfolders, Voice Notes and the built in Pictures and Videos tool. Connectivity in the form of ActiveSync and Internet sharing appears too, and the page is completed with Windows Live and Messenger, and Adobe Reader LE.

Things get interesting on the 3rd page though – HTC have gone to town, especially in the music area. An ‘Audio Booster” app provides fairly basic Graphic Equaliser style functionality for the earphones. The HTC Audio Manager seen elsewhere is there too, and “MP3 Trimmer” which cuts out silence from the beginning and end of files – useful to get the most from your storage space.

Bluetooth Explorer is also available on the device – something missing from the early HTC phones and a very welcome addition. Internet add-ons, eJava and Flash Lite are also shown here, along with more predicable links to the Camera, Comm. Manager and File Explorer.

The 4th and final page is pretty tedious stuff – links to quick notes, speed dial setup, streaming media and Task Manager. The link to the Video Recorder is also here, along with something called “HTC Debug Tools” – I suspect this will go missing before it hits stores!

Highlights:

QWERTY Keyboard on a candybar: Lets face it – no one else bothers with this form factor so good on HTC for making not only a success of the S710 – but on providing a worthy upgrade as well.

HTC Xt9: This, along with the Touch Dual (review soon!) are the first devices I’ve used with the new style T9 input on HTC phones. Weirdly there are a few differences between the devices – and the S730 comes out on top in every aspect. The T9 input is so good – for speed, its sometimes faster then the qwerty keyboard

WiFi: WiFi in a phone: very good thing.