SmartPhones

The ASUS P735 is a Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Pocket PC 3G smartphone. With tools and features for both the professional user and the general consumer, the P735 is bundled with an impressive combination of multimedia features and productivity tools.

For example, its multimedia features include:

• Dual camera
• Video calling
• Total multimedia playback
• Business card reader

And its productivity tools include the deft and dexterous ASUS Remote Presenter app that allows users to access and manage Microsoft PowerPoint presentations from your PC, as well as a meeting planner capable of scheduling teleconferencing across three time zones.

The ASUS P735 lacks GPS or HSDPA, but it does operate on GPRS Class 10 networks. It has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity as well as a miniSD card slot for extra data storage.

The look and feel of the ASUS P735 resembles the Apple iPhone with a large screen dominating the face of the smartphone, though it has a few other buttons surrounding its primary, multipurpose button. A touch screen smartphone, the P735 has no keyboard or numeric keypad.

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For sheer quality and durability it may be argued that Nokia makes the best smartphones around. And for software functionality and versatility none is more revered than Microsoft. So it's no wonder that the two industry leaders would eventually bring together their winning expertise into a single offering. In fact, one only wonders what took them so long.

HTC and Motorola customers already enjoy the PC performance that the Windows Mobile OS gives their smartphones, not least of which is access to mobile versions of the Microsoft Office suite of applications. Now Microsoft is aiming to put their coveted OS into a Nokia N-Series smartphone. About time!

Following on the heels of the most recent convert to the WinMo family, Samsung, with its T-Mobile Shadow. And if Samsung can diverge from its Symbian loyalty, so can fellow Symbianite Nokia, right?

It likely won't happen until after Windows Mobile 7 or Windows Mobile 8 hits the market, but one thing seems certain - it will happen.

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In response to the widespread popularity of Windows Mobile software and the equally widespread dissatisfaction with how well (or not so well) it's so far been integrated into other companies' smartphones, HTC, the developers of Windows Mobile software, is putting out their own smartphone.

Called the HTC S730, the new smartphone will be an HSPDA phone with 3G capabilities housed in a grey metallic casing with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. One of the most exciting features of the HTC S730 is that it will be Wi-Fi enabled and able to perform as a modem when a nearby PC or laptop is without one.

But of course, the HTC S730 wouldn't be worth making if it wasn't primed to be the best implementation of Microsoft Windows Mobile software yet, and it shouldn't disappoint with the latest, Windows Mobile 6, installed. The HTC S730 will include:

• Microsoft Office Mobile
• Outlook email
• a calendar
• contact book
• and a whole lot more!

Check it out for yourself at the HTC site

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