HTC S620 Smartphone

The voice recorder, memory manager and secure delete utility are useful. As this is Windows Mobile Smartphone rather than the Pocket PC Phone edition you usually get on a QWERTY device, you don't get the Word, Excel and PowerPoint Mobile apps or the Notes option for Pocket Outlook; the ClearVue viewer for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF is included and you can install OneNote Mobile. You don't get auto completion or auto correction either, so you have to put in capital letters and punctuation by hand; this makes typing rather slower and more frustrating, compared to a Pocket PC phone or a BlackBerry, although the keyboard is comfortable, well laid out and easy to type on. Plus you can't copy and paste in email (or any other app).

Most of these disadvantages go away when you upgrade to Windows Mobile 6, and in other ways you may find that less is more. Windows Mobile Smartphone has a simpler, less cluttered user interface and it's more of a phone; you get speed dial, predictive dialling, call history, photo caller ID, supports call waiting, conference calling and flight mode. Plus this is a far smaller, lighter and slimmer device than any Pocket PC Phone. If you want a QWERTY device that's lightweight in every sense, this is it.

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