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For me a Windows Smartphone has always been the mobile phone of choice.
I have had a couple of Orange SPV C600s for over 2 years now as IMO no decent replacement has ever been released.
The phone runs my diary, has an excellent text-messaging (SMS) system, is great for web browsing and best of all with a large memory card it carries a substantial amount of music.
Recently however, HTC, the company who make the C600 released 2 very interesting models. The HTC Touch and, announced yesterday the HTC Touch Dual.
First of all, the HTC Touch:
This one is not really my cup of tea. Its sort of an iPhone-type design but with a few buttons.
The problem is, like the iPhone, it has NO number pad.
I just can’t imagine life without a number pad? Text-messaging would surely be impossible? Also ‘On Screen Keyboards’ are a terrible bind and I can imagine a crap load of errors productivity slow-downs using a stylus to type or write in text.
As luck would have it HTC seem to have worked out that there would be some users like me who wouldn’t want a purely-touch-powered phone.
So they came up with the HTC Touch Dual:
Its basically the ‘Touch’ model with a slightly smaller screen and a drop down number pad.
Also, it has the same set of snazzy features:
Key features
- Size: 107 x 55 x 15.8 mm
- Weight: 120 g
- Connectivity: WCDMA/HSDPA: 2100 MHz/GSM/EDGE: 900/1800/1900 MHz
- Operating system: Windows Mobile® 6 Professional
- Display: 2.6-inch QVGA flat touch screen
- Camera: 2 megapixel plus front facing camera for video calling
- Internal memory: 256 MB flash, 128 MB RAM
- Removable memory: microSDTM slot
- Bluetooth: 2.0 with EDR
- Interface: HTC ExtUSBTM (mini-USB and audio jack in one; USB 2.0 Full-Speed)
- Battery: 1100 mAh
- Talk time: WCDMA: up to 240 minutes*, GSM: up to 360 minutes*
- Standby time: WCDMA: up to 150 hours*, GSM: up to 250 hours*
- Chipset: Qualcomm® MSM7200, 400 MHz
