HTC P3600 > Reviews > Good all rounder PDA phone

Author's product rating:   

Look & Feel	Good
Memory / capacity	Good
Comfort & Portability	Excellent
Ease of use	Very easy
Value For Money	Excellent

Advantages:	Wifi, 3G/GPRS, infrared, bluetooth, built in Sat Nav, smooth
Disadvantages:	No radio, can dirty easily

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Not many people knows about HTC phone because they are not readily available in the retail shops. I got mine from vodafone. However, it is an extremely good PDA phone - better than most O2 XDA phone out there (in my own opinion). They are usually offered when you want to upgrade or `cancel\' your contract. For your information, O2 XDA phone is made by HTC company as well according to the salesman.
HTC P3600 was released on sep 2006 - similar to O2 XDA orbit. Nevertheless, it has twice as fast processor and all modes of communication available including 3G which O2 does not have. You do not get any lagging at all when using this PDA phoone. It even has infrared even though it is no longer popular. Its shape is similar to O2 XDA and is only slight heavier ( about 10-15g). It has so many good features so i will just list a few which stands out the most for me:
a) 3G/GPRS - fast
b) built in sat-nav with Tom Tom 6 - only 1 city map free though however
c) essential bluetooth
d) Voice calling
e) WiFi - a must nowadays
f) Storage card slot (mini SD)
The only flaw i found about this phone is that it dirties easy. It comes in black or white so i would say go for the black one. Fingerprints all over the phone is just unsightly. It is therefore essential to buy some leather or silicon case for the phone just to keep it clean and protected. And as with all pdas and phones, remember to buy a good rewashable screen protector. The camera, being 2mb, does a poor job and it is one of the feature that i hardly use. It also does not come with a radio. It can also be pricey if you just want to buy the phone itself so i would recommend to go for the contract.

Full Specifications (if you are interested)
General Network HSDPA / GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Size Dimensions 108 x 58.2 x 18.4 mm
Weight 150 g
Display Type TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
Size 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches
- Handwriting recognition
Ringtones Type Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3
Vibration Yes
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Card slot miniSD, buy memory
- 64 MB RAM, 128 MB ROM
- Samsung SC32442A 400MHz
processor
Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD No
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA 1.8 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port Yes
USB Yes

Features:-
OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (PocketIE)
Games (solitaire, bubble breaker - no monopoly!)
Colors white, Black
Camera 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels, video; secondary video call VGA camera
- GPS (with the new firmware versions only)
- Video call
- Pocket Office(Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Java MIDP 2.0
- Voice memo
- MP3/AAC player
- Video/audio album
- Built-in handsfree
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh
Stand-by Up to 250 h
Talk time Up to 5 h