'The Touch Dual's 400-MHz Qualcomm MSM7200 CPU is powerful enough to run Windows Mobile at a decent clip, though on occasion I still had to wait several seconds with frozen dialog boxes on the screen.'
'well-designed slider'
'color saturation is quite poor, lacking vibrancy, and when in direct sunlight the screen is barely legible.'
'the S730 is a pretty run-of-the-mill smartphone, with its traditional keyboard layout; 2.4in, 320 x 240, 65,536-colour screen; and stout HTC-grey plastic shell'
'The device can be sluggish at times, especially with numerous applications open..'
'It's a bit tough to slide the card in, and it goes in upside down for some reason, but at least it's not under the battery.'
'It was even easy to see in sunlight, something that can't be said about most screens.'
'The HTC's rear-firing speakerphone is more like a PA system: extremely loud (the phone vibrates with the power of the sound and folks in the next room will likely hear the call with no problems even at half volume).'
'the camera is way below average when lighting conditions are not optimal'
'In our underground test SPL presented itself extremely unsatisfactorily'
'Display is dull in sunlight.'
'wide aspect, 320x240 (QVGA) screen, a full QWERTY keypad, handwriting recognition, 128MB of ROM and 64MB of usable RAM along with a miniSD memory card slot.'
'The SIM card slot is also a point worth mentioning, consisting of a thin metallic tray that slides out from below the memory card slot - while it isn't an altogether bad design, it will prove a little hard to use for those with larger fingers.'
'The i-mate SPL is a new, slim Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone'
'fairly chunky battery'
'In our underground test SPL presented itself extremely unsatisfactorily'