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Pete Paxton
10-05-2007, 03:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2007/10/03/htc-s730-unboxing/' target='_blank'>http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2007/10/03/htc-s730-unboxing/</a><br /><br /></div><em>&quot;The recently announced HTC S730 was a much needed upgrade to HTC&rsquo;s Vox. Some quick updates to the device include UMTS/HSDPA, a 400MHz processor, refined QWERTY keyboard, front-facing camera, and a couple other tweaks here and there. We liked the HTC Vox at first, but we soon found out the QWERTY keyboard was nearly unusable and the handset was a little but underpowered. How did the HTC S730 do? We would have liked it to shine, but for us, the keyboard was extremely difficult to type on, better, but not quite there yet. Device speed though was fine. Nothing really got slow of lagged down, even with a multitude of applications running concurrently. While we&rsquo;re on that subject, we&rsquo;ll let you know the S730 has 64MB of ROM, and 128MB of RAM, so you shouldn&rsquo;t feel at all slowed down. Think of it as the baby brother to the HTC TyTN II &mdash; smaller, sort of similar specs, etc. We&rsquo;re going to leave the decision making up to you, though.&quot;<br /><br /></em><img border="1" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/500/spt/auto/1191563980.usr11642.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br />Seems like a cool phone. If I didn't already have my Dash, the S730 would be very tempting. It's powerful and appears to have all the trimmings. Perhaps the nicest candy bar style device out there. What do you think? What are your likes and dislikes? Is this possibly your next device or are you waiting to see what else comes out?

Mike Temporale
10-05-2007, 06:42 PM
It's a nice follow up to the s710. But I'm still not a big fan of the form factor. I find that I'm always tilting and sliding open the device. Then you gotta wait while the screen redraws.... Bah!

modgnik
10-05-2007, 08:28 PM
Great specs, shame about the weight.
At 150 grams it's far too heavy for my liking. Dump the sliding qwerty and that's a different story. I'll stick to my Tornado & Asus Jupiter in the meantime.

altden
10-07-2007, 06:25 PM
It seems that GPS is present, after all.
http://superiorgadgets.blogspot.com/2007/09/htc-s730-worthy-successor-of-popular.html

Mike Temporale
10-09-2007, 01:33 PM
Well, so far nobody else has confirmed that. We've been talking about it in another thread here (http://forums.thoughtsmedia.com/showthread.php?t=23205). Hopefully we can get some confirmation on it soon.