HTC S730, also known as HTC Wings is a

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from

HTC HTC Corporation ( zh, t=宏達國際電子股份有限公司, s=宏达国际电子股份有限公司, p=Hóngdá Guójì Diànzǐ Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī, first=t) or High Tech Computer Corporation, (literally ''Hongda International Electron ...

. The phone is a member of HTC's line with phones equipped with

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-keyboards.

History

The phone was made available in late 2007. It uses Windows Mobile technology and is powered by Windows Mobile 6 Standard. HTC has used slogans such as "Let's get down to business." and "Keep in touch no matter where you are in the world." when marketing the device.

Properties

Keyboard

The device has an extendable keyboard - "qwerty", available in localized versions, which simplifies

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and smartphone functions. There's also a standard numeric keyboard located under the screen.

Multimedia

The device can also act as a music player supporting formats such as

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, WMA,

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eAAC+ High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE-AAC) is an audio coding format for lossy data compression of digital audio defined as an MPEG-4 Audio profile in ISO/IEC 14496–3. It is an extension of Low Complexity AAC (AAC-LC) optimized for low ...

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AMR-NB The Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR, AMR-NB or GSM-AMR) audio codec is an audio compression format optimized for speech coding. AMR speech codec consists of a multi-rate narrowband speech codec that encodes narrowband (200–3400 Hz) signals at va ...

and

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Internet

The device can be connected to wireless networks using 802.11 b/g (

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), it supports the

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-protocol which can be used to make calls when connected to a wireless network.

Battery

The device uses a 1,050 mAh rechargeable Li-Ion Polymer battery.

Rumours

Integrated GPS system

The device is said to contain a GPS chip but lacks the software to use it; also, the integrated GPS chip has no antenna and therefore it can only connect to 1-2 satellites (usually at COM4 at 4800 or 9600 baud). HTC has not officially stated that the device would contain any GPS functionality, however GPS functions have been demonstrated by HTC on preview versions of the device.

References

*HTC's product catalogue *The Swedish magazine Mobil - 2007/11

External links

Product HomepageProduct Specifications
{{Windows Mobile S730 Windows Mobile Standard devices Mobile phones introduced in 2007