http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/10/01/hps-silver-smartphone-in-the-wild/ Engadget Mobile Comments for HP's Silver smartphone in the wild http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/10/01/hps-silver-smartphone-in-the-wild/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/10/01/hps-silver-smartphone-in-the-wild/I have a friends who works at HP.
The handset I tested had a vodaphone startup screen, not sure about other carriers...

Pros imo: Nice and large screen, and the handset feels really solid even though the back cover feels very plasticy once taken off.

Cons: The optic laser navigation key (of whatever it's called) isn't seemless, at least not on the software version I tested, and I couldn't find a setting for it.
What does this mean? You'll be draging your thumb up and down/sideways like crazy, cuz it never seems to go more than one step (in the menus) at a time.
That really defeats the purpose as far as I can see it.]]>Oct 1st 2008 4:44PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/10/01/hps-silver-smartphone-in-the-wild/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/10/01/hps-silver-smartphone-in-the-wild/Oct 1st 2008 4:53PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/10/01/hps-silver-smartphone-in-the-wild/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/10/01/hps-silver-smartphone-in-the-wild/Oct 1st 2008 8:49PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/10/01/hps-silver-smartphone-in-the-wild/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/10/01/hps-silver-smartphone-in-the-wild/Oct 1st 2008 9:23PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/10/01/hps-silver-smartphone-in-the-wild/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/10/01/hps-silver-smartphone-in-the-wild/
I have Windows Mobile 6.1 standard running on my HTC Tornado (as on the Orange SPV C600 above, although mine's an i-mate sp5m) and have had no problems with it whatsoever. In fact, I really like the sliding panels home screen which is both functional and pretty.

I guess your experience depends on which phone you use. I had a Ubiquio 501 which has a slow processor and piddly RAM, which could be rather draggy, and now I've put TouchFlo on it, it is darn pretty but slow as molasses. The S740 has a 256/256 ROM/RAM combo which will make it fly. Waiting to see the specs on this before jumping.]]>Oct 2nd 2008 6:53AM