HTC S730 - user opinions and reviews
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7.9
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7.9
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7.9
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- rsawoseyin
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I had this phone for 12 days. Then while in the leather case I bought for it, it dropped from a height of about 1m, and that was it - the screen went white and has never recovered.
But I'll share my view on the phone:
1) If you love the user-friendliness of Symbian phones but also crave the power of Windows Mobile, get this S730 phone.
2) Those who moan that it does not have GPS (or rather that the GPS is not activated) and that it has only 64MB RAM should understand that it is a typical business strategy: Make an excellent product, leave out some desirables - It gives you a basis for future models. Watch out for an HTC S7xx that looks like the S730 but with GPS and 128MB RAM. That's how HTC will keep getting our money.
3) Although it looks solid, the S730 phone is in fact fragile. If you are used to dropping your Nokias, picking up the pieces and coupling it all together and rebooting, the HTC S730 will disappoint you. If you drop it, you can assume you've ruined it.
4) The ring volume control is virtually useless. Even at the lowest volume setting (volume=1) it is obnoxiously loud. I left mine on vibration most of the time.
5) There are glaring oversights in the software - more to do with WM Standard than the hardware. For example, you can edit MS-Word and MS-Excel files but cannot create new ones. Fortunately, you can get a .cab file free from the web that allows you create new MS-Word and MS-Excel files.
6) The memory leak is bad. You need a memory recovery add-on (available free from the web) to clean things up from time to time. Otherwise, the phone just hangs and you must reboot at least once daily.
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- 2008-05-01 00:07
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- andy
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I read on another site that this phone was recently updated to work on 3G network in the U.S. Can anyone confirm this? Currently it only operates in the 2100 mhz in Asia/Europe for 3G.
Thanks,
Andy
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- 2008-04-30 23:36
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- Must Be Phone
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Can anyone please give me some advice so as to if I should buy this phone or Toshiba's G-900? On the one hand I like the fact that Toshiba's screen and keypad sizes are bigger, but I've been reading some bad reviews on how it hangs all the time, you can't read anything on the screen in day light, the camera is bad etc, so I would appreciate it if you could give me some advice too..
thanks :)
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- 2008-04-30 22:33
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- HTC_TOUCH
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to AI
Windows Mobile Standard = for NON- touch screen phones
Windows Mobile Professional = for Touch Screen phones.
so answer is NO you can not use Windows Mobile 6 Pro in this Device.
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- 2008-04-30 11:43
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- Al
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Hi,
I will probably buy one in a couple of days, but I would like to know if it's possible to upgare the OS from WM 6.0 standard to the version WM 6.0 pro?
Can you please let me know before I buy it.
Many Thanks
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- 2008-04-29 13:01
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- Steve J
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I think this is an extremely good design. In fact the design concept is the best I have ever seen in a phone. It allows the user access to both a T9 hardware keyboard and a QWERTY. Excellent!!
HTC then go and spoil a good design by cutting the RAM thereby limiting the multitasking ability of the phone. They make the mistake of excluding GPS, which so many desire. The QWERTY has only three rows instead of the usual four so some letters are in unusual places which now institutes the inconvenient need to type differently for this particular phone.
One wonders whether it is because the phone does not have a touch screen that HTC felt the need to amputate its features!
HTC should realise that by far the majority of people do not like touch screens. One has only to look at top selling phones such as Nokia's N73 and N95 8GB which are all without touch screens to realise this.
That is why a phone like this would be ideal for people who have been used to Symbian phones and want to try WM. Yet HTC make decamping difficult with their insistence on cutting features. Why couldn't they have placed a 3.2 or even 5MP autofocus camera in the device. Afterall this is a contemporary feature that is highly desired.
HTC should stop being small minded and open the gates. They should place top features in this phone because it has so much potential.
So if they ever make a S750 or even S770 they should try and implement the aforementioned recommendations because that is the key to high sales. HTC have the design; they have the processor (Qualcomm MSM 7200); they have the technicians. What is holding them??
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- 2008-04-28 19:43
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- Tsepz
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Here i was looking at the Touch Dual sadly thinking "if only it had Wi-Fi" and had totaly forgoten about the S730!
In 3months im taking another upgrade and im not sure if i should get another Nokia Nseries or not. So would like to find out how much does this device cost in South Africa?
How much RAM does it have after boot up? +/-45mb?
Is WM6.1 OUT for this device?
And lastly how is the screen compared to a S710 and Touch Dual?
I realy wish GSMArena had done a review of it. :-(
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- 2008-04-18 23:16
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- healer
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I like this phone so far.... its the smallest smartphone with a full keyboard.
If it had GPS it would be perfect. I prefer having a phone with normal dialing pad and not touch because its not as quick
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- 2008-04-11 23:02
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- spylah
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The phone is a nice phone but a problem i have with it is that if you put a mp3 as your text message ringtone it don't stop playing when the text is being read, it only stops when the entire mp3 is completed. Is the a fix for this?
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- 2008-04-05 16:52
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- Anonymous
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For the alarm to work, the phone has to remain on. If your reason for turning off the phone is to conserve enry then jst put the phone in flight mode.
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- 2008-03-19 15:43
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- Eugene
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Hey anyone can help? i just got this phone 2 days ago... realised a problem.. i like to off my phone when asleep.. and i realised that the alarm will not go off when the phone is off. Can this phone have auto switch on when the alarm clock hit?? i dislike to be disturbed when asleep. Please... urgent help needed... can email me if u have the answer thx =)
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- 2008-03-17 11:04
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- Mikerman
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Due to release 11th March on o2.
Contract price: Unknown
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- 2008-03-07 12:03
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- Jobi
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For those in the UK that want this phone, the HTC S730 has been rebranded O2 XDA Atmos and it will be released in March 08 on the O2 network.
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- 2008-02-28 17:53
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- Auronius
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The phone is really nice. But it should have been equipped with an auto-focus camera. It's also imho quite too fat. The numeric keypad could have been better.
It's a shame that it has such a powerful cpu and has rather slow interface, including the one for taking pictures :(
But the full qwerty keypad is something really nice. WM itself is also really good. I used to have a Nokia 9300 (the one without wi-fi) and I think HTC S730 is a good phone to choose when your 9300 is getting old =)
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- 2008-02-25 00:37
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- dave154
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Hi, I'm looking at buying this phone as did like the s710 but held back 'cos of lack of 3G. Just need to know a few things. Is the processor any quicker than the Tytn II, what's the battery life like on average & how easy is it to use?
Thanks
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- 2008-02-15 10:21
- mqD%
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- owner
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this phone rulz!
I own it couple of weeks now, and really like it. I installed skype for mobile devices on it - everything works fine. Things not very well - camera - it's hard to catch still image. Still waiting fore some soft patches that would enable GPS...
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- 2008-02-09 23:39
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