HTC launches new smartphones

Our friends over in Europe will be pleased to know that HTC has launched a trio of new handsets to keep the business community up-to-date with their appointments. Leading the trio is the HTC X7500 (Advantage), followed by the HTC S710 and HTC P3350. The X7500 is a Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone with a massive 8GB hard drive, a miniSD card slot, integrated GPS navigation, 3G, WiFi, and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, an embedded motion sensor, and a brililant 640 x 480 display. In addition, you also get a 3 megapixel camera and a VGA camera for video calls. All this is powered by an Intel PXA270 624MHz processor, 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM, and a dedicated ATI mobile graphics processor.

The HTC S710 might not be as feature packed as the X7500, but it is capable of holding its own against the rest of the competition with a full QWERTY autosliding keyboard, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, stereo Bluetooth 2.0 and WiFi connectivity, a microSD slot, a 2 megapixel camera, and 128MB ROM/64MB RAM. The S710 also runs on the latest Windows Mobile 6.0 operating system.

Last but not least, the P3350 shares very similar visual cues as the P3300, except that the GPS navigation system is glaringly missing. Other than that, the P3350 works great as an entry level smartphone, featuring a 2 megapixel camera, an integrated FM radio, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, and quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE.