Honest 836 Report post Posted February 14, 2008 HTC Shows Off the P3470 Yet another phone with promise unveiled at the World Mobile Congress; the quad-band P3470 from HTC, will set "a new standard in affordable smart phone, GPS-based devices," according to the company. The highlights of the phone are GPS navigation, a touch-screen, and long battery life (what's claimed is 350 minutes of talk time and up to 240 hours of standby time). This is a Windows Mobile 6 device; the display is a 2.8-inches QVGA TFT LCD touch-screen. TomTom Navigator 6 is included for navigation, but the company says the supplied software could vary depending on the country. Incidentally, there's a GPS antenna connector so one can hook it up to an external antenna for better reception. A 1GB microSD card is supplied with the phone; it has 256MB of Flash and 128MB of internal memory. Then there's a 2 mega pixels camera and Bluetooth 2.0. Interestingly, there's no 3G or Wi-Fi. The P3470 will be made available in some European countries later this month, and will be priced at about $650. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kshah 452 Report post Posted February 15, 2008 I think manufaturers are trying to keep cost under control by not providing 3G. As 3G phone ideally do not require wifi. Also 3G still is less than 25% of global population. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
