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HTC Herald Pocket PC phone available commercially and many reviews published
December 08, 2006 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R.

The thinnest Pocket PC phone from HTC with slide-out keyboard went silently (without major announcements from HTC) on sale and is now available commercially!



HTC Herald aka HTC P4350 may have no 3G, but it is thin, has slide-out keyboard, built-in Wi-Fi, and has fascinating auto-sliding mechanism that switches the phone on, and generally is designed to be a cheap mass market phone. In other words: it is a very good candidate for your next phone, if you don't care about 3G!

A quote from a review of HTC Herald:

I really like this device, it offers the slim design of the SPV M600 whilst offering the functionality of the slide-out QWERTY keyboard usually found on far thicker devices. Having used the HTC Hermes (in it’s SPV M3100 guise) as my main device in recent months I have grown accustomed to data entry using such a mechanism, as such its inclusion on the HTC P4350 is a big plus point for me, it makes the process of data entry simple and also provides that added wow-factor which we all know makes the difference when showing off your phone to your friends and family!

Official home page of HTC P4350 is here (you can find there exact specifications and more information - all official from HTC).

List of recently published reviews of HTC Herald (to be sold also as HTC P4350): Conclusion: while HTC still fails to deliver Windows Mobile phone with touch screen and QWERTY keyboard for single-handed usage - mistakenly thinking that only touch screen -less phones deserve such keyboard, HTC is developing further their "sliders" addressing the main issue that users had with them (i.e. with HTC Wizard and HTC Hermes) - bigger than average thickness. HTC Herald may have a keyboard that requires usage of both hands (or thumbs) but bigger keys make up for it: in keyboards for single handed usage very often users press more than one key at once due to smaller size of these keys. "Thin is in" and it's good to see that HTC understands it - unlike Palm that still claims that users actually want thick phones and that's why all Treo phones are so thick! Once you will "go thin" you will never want to go back - the comfort of using thin phones is big both in usage and carrying them around.


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