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in August,
HTC announced its latest Windows Mobile Standard smartphone, the
HTC S740. While it
follows HTC's latest design and looks pretty similar to the
HTC Touch Pro,
it's a non-touchscreen smartphone which actually replaces the
HTC S730. Like the
S730, the S740 is also a 3.5G and the typical slide-out keyboard but other
features either got an update or are completely new. While the S740 still not
supports UMTS/HSDPA networks in the U.S. it supports quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and
also features WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 as well as aGPS/GPS which works, for
instance, quite well with the pre-installed
Google Maps
Mobile client (which nevertheless isn't the latest one featuring
Street View).
Other features includes a 3.2 megapixel fixfocus main camera, 256 MB RAM and ROM
as well as a 2.4" QVGA screen.
Unlike the S730, the S740 isn't featuring a front facing camera, which can be
used for UMTS video telephony, anymore and HTC also replaced its "Live HTC
Home" Home screen with Microsoft's new Windows Mobile 6.1 Home screen which HTC
enhanced with some features (like weather forecast).
Sure, the HTC S740 might misses some of the latest HTC feature-highlights
like an autofocus camera and since Opera hasn't released Opera Mobile 9.5 for
Standard smartphones yet, users are locked into Microsoft's Internet Explorer
Mobile (or alternatively Opera Mini 4.2 can be used) but the S740 is a rocking
solid working tool for messaging addicts which prefer hardware keyboards over
touchscreen smartphones.
Cheers ~ Arne
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