Verizon SMT5800 by HTC

[Jerry Raia]

http://www.mobiletechreview.com/pho...zon-SMT5800.htm

"Verizon has had a reasonably strong selection of PDA phones, from Palm OS Treos to a variety of Windows Mobile Pocket PC phones, but their smartphone pickings have been slim. With the SMT5800, they've got an innovatively designed, high quality offering that's one of the coolest looking WinMo 6 smartphones currently on the US market. The SMT5800 is the CDMA cousin to the HTC S730, a GSM smartphone that never made it to US carriers, giving Verizon exclusive bragging rights."

A distant relative of my old S710, this phone shows Verizon can actually have a decent device. I liked the form factor and the slide out keyboard of the S710. The keyboard on this model is said to be better. The SMT5800 looks like it is also a faster phone in terms of processing power and connection speed.

[Jerry Raia]

http://www.mobiletechreview.com/pho...zon-SMT5800.htm

"Verizon has had a reasonably strong selection of PDA phones, from Palm OS Treos to a variety of Windows Mobile Pocket PC phones, but their smartphone pickings have been slim. With the SMT5800, they've got an innovatively designed, high quality offering that's one of the coolest looking WinMo 6 smartphones currently on the US market. The SMT5800 is the CDMA cousin to the HTC S730, a GSM smartphone that never made it to US carriers, giving Verizon exclusive bragging rights."

A distant relative of my old S710, this phone shows Verizon can actually have a decent device. I liked the form factor and the slide out keyboard of the S710. The keyboard on this model is said to be better. The SMT5800 looks like it is also a faster phone in terms of processing power and connection speed.