HTC P3300 Review - Introduction

Introduction

Introduction
The HTC P3300 is one of the latest Pocket PC’s and offers features like no other in its class. The P3300 has Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC with AKU 3. The phone has built in GPS, Wi-Fi, GPRS and EDGE. The best part about the phone is that it comes with TOMTOM navigation version 6 preinstalled. TOMTOM is known world wide for their GPS programs and it is nice to see that it comes preinstalled with the phone. A new exciting feature on the phone is the built in mouse. Like the Blackberry pearl, the P3300 has a little trackball but can also be used to control the onboard mouse. The HTC P3300 is also known as the HTC Artemis, O2 Orbit and MDA compact III. Although the phone offers an extensive list of features, how is it overall? Is the mouse really necessary? What’s the GPS like? READ ON TO FIND OUT!!

Design
The P3300 looks awesome plain and simple. The phone has a dark grey finish and chrome side panels. The microphone is located on the top and contains two LED lights. When the phone is charging or you have a missed call the light is orange and when the charge is complete is turns green.

The keypad layout on the phone is excellent. There are six keys in total, starting from the left is the green talk button and directly under it is the GPS navigation hot key. Then we have the left soft key and under that is the windows key which is the same as clicking the start button with your stylus. We then have the trackball and scroll wheel which will be discussed further a little later on. On the right side we have the right soft key and under it is the ok button to close programs. We then have the red end button and under that is the Internet explorer button. You can change the hardware buttons to your own preference by going into settings, personal tab then buttons.  There are also buttons located on the sides of the phone. On the top right hand side is the power button which turns the backlight on/off or turns off the device if held. On the bottom right there is the camera button. When you hold the camera button the camera application is launched and once in the camera mode the same button takes pictures. On the left side of the phone is the voice dial button. You can also change this button to work with Microsoft Voice Command.

The stylus is located on the bottom right hand side of the phone and fits perfectly. HTC has done an excellent job in making the stylus secure. This was a big problem in past devices where the stylus gets very loose and eventually falls out.

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