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 HTC S710 (Vox) Smartphone revealed!, Yet another QWERTY Smartphone from HTC
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post Dec 13 2006, 20:52
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What with the recent craze of QWERTY Smartphones from manufacturers such as HTC and Samsung to rival the Blackberry, HTC has also come up with this rather interesting device.

It's the HTC Vox and will be sold in the near future as the HTC S710. It's yet to be comfirmed whether other manufacturers such as Dopod or any carriers will be taking this phone up. As you've probably already noticed, this is the first Smartphone to sport a sliding QWERTY keyboard! It also boasts a fairly impressive spec including WiFi 802.11b/g and a 2.4" QVGA screen.

Full specs after the jump...

via: boygeniusreport.com


Specs:
  • TI OMAP 850 @ 200MHz
  • ROM 128MB / RAM 64MB
  • 2.4" QVGA Screen
  • Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900MHz
  • WiFi 802.11b/g
  • MicroSD
  • 2MP Camera
  • "Semi-automatic" sliding QWERTY keyboard


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post Dec 13 2006, 21:29
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so... is this smartphone, or is it just a smartphone cut-out pasted on there? where's the d-pad?


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post Dec 13 2006, 21:46
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Its got home and back keys (Smartphone like)
But no D-Pad and only softkeys like Pocket PC... huh blink.gif

How poorly photoshopped is the OS onto the device !


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post Dec 13 2006, 21:46
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QUOTE(bennish @ Dec 13 2006, 21:29) *
so... is this smartphone, or is it just a smartphone cut-out pasted on there? where's the d-pad?


Two very good questions and I only have an answer to one of them blink.gif

It is a smartphone to the best of my knowledge (official HTC spec says WM5 for smartphone) The screen shot is from a HTC Breeze (notice the UMTS icon), you can tell because the spec's claim it isnt 3g.

I have no idea where the D-Pad has gone blink.gif

@w4lly - PPC's do have D-Pads and not all PPC's have softkeys wink.gif

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post Dec 14 2006, 11:35
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I like this, assuming that it's not too fat, but I think my next one will probably be 3G (my first trip into 3G-world)
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post Dec 14 2006, 11:42
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HTC Vox - 100mm x 50mm x 18mm
HTC Tornado - 107mm x 46mm x 18mm
HTC Breeze - 112mm x 49mm x 15mm

So it's not too fat...

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post Dec 14 2006, 12:40
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[me checks what an SP5 is]
That's actually quite small for a device with a keyboard, makes me wonder if the keys will be a bit too small too...
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post Dec 14 2006, 12:47
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With a dpad and 3G this would be the bomb. Assuming battery life lasted more than a few hours. This is what I wanted when I got my Vario II.
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post Dec 14 2006, 13:07
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Still not sure about the spacebar wink.gif

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post Dec 14 2006, 13:54
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I truly wonder how the navigation can be without the D-Pad. Apart from that, really promising! Looks like what everyone should need (assuming 3G is there) !


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post Dec 14 2006, 16:29
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QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Dec 14 2006, 13:07) *
Still not sure about the spacebar ;)

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It's a bit, wierd isn't it? Imagine you would get used to it tho after a while, bit like the RollR on the P3300 (which personally i quite like along with the scroll wheel on the front biggrin.gif)

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Whats up with that useless QWERTY keyboard?

Yet again HTC comes up with a huge phone.
Please please get your a... together and make us a decent sized phone without that stupid and space-wasting qwerty keyboard.

I think I might have to opt for the Asus Graphite, even though the design looks boring.

I´m the only one that thinks HTC is way off?


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post Dec 14 2006, 18:55
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QUOTE(Jakob @ Dec 14 2006, 18:42) *
Whats up with that useless QWERTY keyboard?

Yet again HTC comes up with a huge phone.
Please please get your a... together and make us a decent sized phone without that stupid and space-wasting qwerty keyboard.

I think I might have to opt for the Asus Graphite, even though the design looks boring.

I´m the only one that thinks HTC is way off?
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It's not THAT big, its smaller than the N70 and N91. I couldn't live without the QWERTY keyboard on my Vario II, sliding QWERTY on a smartphone will make a nice change from T9/multitap. Also the ability to view things in landscape will make viewing webpages alot easier

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[EDIT: As for useless keypads, the N91's is HATEFUL wink.gif]


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post Dec 14 2006, 21:53
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still haven't made up my mind on this one, i guess it like the s620, hated it at first put now i want one!
my guess navigation is done by a 5way scroll wheel a la m600i style, anyone agree?
lets hope the specs are not final, just add the 220mhz omap 3g processor(one found on the nokias)and that would be perfect,why aren't htc using these chipsmore often?
to be honest the 400mhz processor found on samsung,m3100 etc are crappy for battery life!
still think the htc tornado is the best smartphone so far, still using mine and not budging!


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post Dec 14 2006, 22:33
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QUOTE(Damo86 @ Dec 14 2006, 21:53) *
still haven't made up my mind on this one, i guess it like the s620, hated it at first put now i want one!
my guess navigation is done by a 5way scroll wheel a la m600i style, anyone agree?
lets hope the specs are not final, just add the 220mhz omap 3g processor(one found on the nokias)and that would be perfect,why aren't htc using these chipsmore often?
to be honest the 400mhz processor found on samsung,m3100 etc are crappy for battery life!
still think the htc tornado is the best smartphone so far, still using mine and not budging!


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The tornado is a very good smartphone, but, and it is a big but, if this thing ships with crossbow, then you will find that QWERTY keyboard very usefull for typing word documents wink.gif

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post Dec 15 2006, 02:04
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Am I the only one that can't helping thinking this phone is a hoax?

Is there some other source on this besides a web site I never heard of before?


A smartphone with a large screen, numeric keyboard up front and slide out qwerty is like almost too good to be true. It would be ther perfect combination of input methods, IMO. The thing is I'd also like it to have a scroll wheel.

Here are some questions: Isn't there already a Sierra Wireless "Vox" smartphone? Also isn't there already a Sony Ericson "s710"?


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post Dec 15 2006, 22:20
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QUOTE(Socrates @ Dec 15 2006, 02:04) *
Here are some questions: Isn't there already a Sierra Wireless "Vox" smartphone? Also isn't there already a Sony Ericson "s710"?


There also is a motorola C550 but you can't really copyright numbers like intel tried to do with a processor a number of years back.

A number of other websites also have information on this smartphone, just google it smile.gif

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post Dec 18 2006, 19:53
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QUOTE(Socrates @ Dec 14 2006, 22:04) *
Am I the only one that can't helping thinking this phone is a hoax?

Is there some other source on this besides a web site I never heard of before?
A smartphone with a large screen, numeric keyboard up front and slide out qwerty is like almost too good to be true. It would be ther perfect combination of input methods, IMO. The thing is I'd also like it to have a scroll wheel.

Here are some questions: Isn't there already a Sierra Wireless "Vox" smartphone? Also isn't there already a Sony Ericson "s710"?


Boygeniusreports is actually one of the most reliable sources of smartphone information on the internet. The site often has full specs on phones or even actual phones months before anyone else.

I doubt its a hoax, but its odd that there is no dpad
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post Dec 18 2006, 19:57
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The lack of dpad concerns me too... but it IS real.

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The Sierra Wireless device was a Voq, not a Vox. Plus, that's just a codenamed anyway smile.gif

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