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HTC Vox and Toshiba G500 reviewed

by Brian White posted Apr 11th 2007 @ 2:02PM

Are you chomping at the bit to get your hands on one of the newer candybar / QWERTY sliders from HTC or Toshiba? If so, get a load of the below review summaries and see which one is wanting to take a bite out of your wallet, mkay? For starters, the review of the HTC S710 (aka, "Vox") could be relegated to these snippets: just 140 grams (not bad) and about the same size as the Orange C600. The numeric keypad and QWERTY keyboard are both apparently quite usable and the screen is drop-dead nice (for a QVGA piece, anyway). Add in a decent 1,500 mAh battery -- and the undeniable cool factor of a candybar phone concealing QWERTY goodness -- and all around this unit gets a thumbs-up from its reviewer. Turning our attention to the Toshiba G500, the slider is rock solid, the tactile keys give excellent feedback, and the fingerprint reader is just plain awesome. Add in speedy 3G data and a better than average 2 megapixel digicam unit and you've got a winner with the G500 as well. An interesting difference between the two (besides the obvious exclusion of a dedicated numeric pad) would be the omission of Windows Mobile 6 on the G500 -- it ships with Windows Mobile 5, but might just make up for that glaring shortcoming with UMTS. Ah, decisions, decisions!

[Via Smartphone Thoughts]

Read - HTC S710
Read - Toshiba G500

Canadians get HTC Vox before US

by Brian White posted Mar 29th 2007 @ 11:59AM

Our Canadian friends who are fortunate enough to subscribe to Telus Mobility will become the first North Americans to get their paws on the new HTC Vox handset. The CDMA Vox (GSM version announced a few moons back at the 2007 3GSM World Congress) will feature Windows Mobile 6, WiFi and Bluetooth, microSD, 2 megapixel cam and a 2.4 inch color display, though the real draw here is the dual keypad design. At first glance, the Vox looks like a standard Windows Mobile Smartphone candybar, but lurking underneath is a full QWERTY keyboard (which we hear is just how Canadians like it).

[Via Crave]

HTC Vox in the wild?

by Chris Ziegler posted Jan 17th 2007 @ 1:59PM

When the shot's blurry, you know it's got to be good -- and boy oh boy, is this one ever blurry. This sucker is said to be an HTC Vox, the upcoming numeric and QWERTY keypad-equipped Pocket PC, doing what it does best. Notice the presence of a d-pad front and center, which is something we haven't seen on older shots, but we're not taking that to mean it ain't a Vox we're looking at here. Really now, can you imagine a Pocket PC without any sort of directional control? Still no word on when Voxes might be in abundant retail supply, but if it turns out to be true that a 3G radio is absent from its innards, it'd best hit post haste before we all end up waiting for a Wings.

[Thanks, Maximus]