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First reviews of new HTC phones available September 11, 2006 [General] | By Edward J. R. The touch pad in HTC Excalibur may be innovative, but it clearly is not as good as the genuine scroll wheel in RIM BlackBerry or in other devices (including HTC Hermes, Motorola Q and Samsung SGH-i600): If you are a BlackBerry user and you want to change to the Windows Mobile platform, e.g. to use Microsoft's Push E-Mail solution, I'm sure you will manage the use way better. The keyboard, as far as I can tell you, is definitely comparable to BlackBerry keyboards which are the benchmark at all. Nevertheless, I've mentioned it before, the Windows Mobile Smartphone OS wasn't designed to be used with a wheel (or in this case JOGGR) only and you always have to switch between the JOGGR and the D-Pad. Scrolling up and down within E-Mails, web sites and even the Start menu works great and the JOGGR is definitely worth to be used. However, as soon as you navigate one level deeper, for instance in the Start menu, you can not use the JOGGR anymore or if you use it it's inconvenient. So it's less a problem of the device but more a problem of the user interface which was never designed for this kind of use. The review of O2 Xda cosmo smartphone - HTC Excalibur branded by O2 - known also as HTC S620 - is here and here. Th review of HTC P3600 Pocket PC phone is here (unfortunately in Italian only). By the way: i-mate is not waiting for HTC to dominate the world and is launching first phones not manufactured by HTC, starting with i-mate JAQ, review of which you can find here (unfortunately in Chinese).  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
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