I’ve been looking forward to this. Matt Miller and James Kendrick have been using the HTC Advantage 7501 this week and have had a great discussion about it on the Mobile Tech Roundup podcast about the device. ‘Incredibly useful’ said James. ‘This could serve as a UMPC’ said Matt.
I’m wondering how different the 7500 and the 7501 is because I was underwhelmed by the HTC Ameo (7500) when I tried it for 30 minutes earlier this week. You can’t hold it by the keyboard. The browser is terrible (No Opera as default on the Ameo) and the screen fonts look really fat and clunky. It doesn’t look very nice either because the 4:3 screen is a very old looking size ratio. I admit though that I didn’t get a chance to try out GPS and the whole world of great 3rd party apps that exist for Windows Mobile. The ViewFlow and 8GB Microdrive would make a difference too along with the 624Mhz processor and graphics co-processor. Mmm. Maybe I need a second test!
Its actually quite funny because I’m having a great time with the E90 so here we are, ultra mobile PC and TabletPC fans having a lot of fun and productivity with devices that don’t fall into either category! I’ll be writing up my thoughts about the Nokia E90 in the next couple of days but in the meantime, listen to the MoTR podcast here.
HTC Advantage 7500 specs here.
