This is not a phone - well, it could be
Posted by Jack Cook on 07/30/07 in Pocket PC Phones, Smart Phones, UMPC
Mobile Tech Review has a great review on the HTC Advantage X7501 that I think you will enjoy reading. This is a device that offers a great deal of functionality in a reasonably small and powerful form factor. But remember, it is lager than the typical phone device that you are used to seeing but I will tell that after using one while at CES this past January, it quickly became a device that I wanted to add to my mobile collection.
In part, Mobile Tech Review said the following:
Repeat after me: this is not a phone. OK. Yes, it has a phone radio inside– and a capable unlocked quad band GSM one with EDGE as well as a 3G HSDPA. But this is a handheld computer first of the “honey who shrunk the notebook” genre. For those who travel frequently and need instant-on access to the web, email, MS Office documents, music and video, the well under a pound HTC Advantage X7501 might well be a godsend. It’s not for folks who need the full Windows experience, say to run a database written in Access or to run QuickBooks on the go. If you don’t need that kind of thing and want the smallest, most usable device with wide-area networking available, the Advantage is an excellent choice. It’s fast– much faster than Vista UMPCs and micro-computers, isn’t beset by Windows Updates and viruses, doesn’t take 2 minutes to boot or waken from hibernation and it’s half the cost of the OQO model 2 and Sony Vaio UX. The Advantage is especially appealing if you travel frequently and get lost too often, thanks to the integrated GPS, which most competing Vista devices lack.
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