Written by Peter Murphy on Tuesday, August 26, 2008

HTC Smartphone, HTCS740… WOW

I don’t know why you wouldn’t want a device with a touch screen, but it seems the demand is out there. Now what impresses me, a 530 Mhz processor, and get this 256 Mb of ram, to qualify that, a quarter of a Gig of RAM. and this is in a non touch screen, Windows Mobile Standard device. That RAM tops the Diamond and the Touch Pro.
But Wait There’s More,

This is a unique device sporting a normal 12 Key phone input keyboard, and a slide out QWERTY as well.

From the press release:

The S740 follows the sleek design of HTC’s hit consumer handset, the HTC Touch Diamond. This slim smartphone features the same polished black facetted back, a 2.4 inch QVGA display and slide-out QWERTY keyboard.

Key HTC S740 product specifications:

Size: 116.3 x 43.4 x 16.3 mm
Weight: 140g with battery
Networks: WCDMA/HSDPA: 900/2100 MHz for EU and Asia
GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
Maximum speed: UL = 384 kbps; DL = 3.6/7.2 Mbps**
Operating system: Windows Mobile^® 6.1 Standard
Display: 2.4-inch QVGA screen
Camera: 3.2 megapixel with fixed focus
Internal memory: 256 MB flash; 256 MB RAM
Memory card: microSD^™
WLAN: 802.11b/g
Bluetooth^®: 2.0 with EDR
GPS: GPS/AGPS
Interface: HTC ExtUSB^™ (mini-USB and audio jack in one; USB 2.0 High-Speed)
Battery: 1000 mAh
Talk time: WCDMA: Up to 320 minutes*** / GSM: Up to 380 minutes***
Standby time: WCDMA: Up to 400 hours*** / GSM: Up to 280 hours***
Special features: Sliding QWERTY keyboard, FM radio, Google Maps, RSS Hub
Chipset: Qualcomm^® MSM7225, 528 MHz