HTC Breeze aka Qtek 8600 WM5 Smartphone Review

May 30 HTC Breeze aka Qtek 8600 WM5 Smartphone Review
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French site Mobinaute has made maybe first in the world detailed review of HTC Breeze smartphone, that will be sold as Qtek 8600 and under many different other names too. The manufacturers of WM Smartphone HTC has made available only one very restricted Smartphone under Windows Mobile in 2005, and now the Taiwanese company plans to produce more significant number with recent Smartphones like HTC Star Trek (Qtek 8500), next 3G Smartphone HTC Breeze (Qtek 8600) and another Smartphone which will be presented soon.

While HTC Universal - by now the only Windows Mobile phone with support for UMTS/3G - is big and not pocketable, the HTC Breeze is small and very much pocketable! In fact HTC Breeze is only slightly larger than HTC Tornado (known also as Orange SPV C500).

Some Features of HTC Breeze:

* cellular systems: GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz, but no 850 MHz popular nowadays in USA), GPRS, EDGE and UMTS
* 2 cameras are built-in: 1.3 megapixel camera on the back of the phone (for taking photos mainly) + CIF (352x388 pixels) in the front (for video calling)
* memory card slot: microSD (known previously as "TransFlash") - it becomes increasingly popular in all mobile phones, not just smartphones! The microSD card slot in HTC Breeze is accessible externally, so there is no need to take off the battery, to exchange memory card.
* processor: Samsung 2442 of speed 300 MHz! In other words: faster than most current MS Smartphone devices that feature usually processors up to 200 MHz. Using Skype for MS Smartphone - including voice calling - may become possibility at last also in MS Smartphone platform!!!
* Bluetooth 2.0
* memory: 64 MB of RAM and 128 MB of ROM
* no built-in Wi-Fi
* industry standard mini-USB connector (and not non-standard flat mini-USB as in HTC Star Trek smartphone)
* infrared port
* jog-dial for navigation - it looks like a wheel, but it is not a wheel, but just a up-down button
* the unit of HTC Breeze, that was tested still didn't have support for stereo audio over Bluetooth, but it is expected that in final model this support will be provided
* similarly like it is in HTC Universal, when HTC Breeze is in the coverage area of UMTS network (3G standard for Europe and Japan mainly), then symbol "U" appears in title bar and phone can make video calls and connect at higher transfer speeds

Complete review with really lots of pictures and detailed information from first hand you can read here original in French or translated in English.

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