I recently wanted to buy a new GSM Smartphone but I had a limited budget of around Rs 10, 000 I knew I wanted to buy a Smartphone phone that can easily sync with my address books, notes, contacts etc and works easily with outlook. I was not even considering HTC Smartphone as I always thought their phones were upwards of 15, 000 and my budget was around 10, 000 but to my surprise I found this little wonder known as HTC P3400i.
HTC P3400i is a windows mobile touch screen phone and its around the 10, 000 mark and its much better than many expensive phones in the market a phone that is true value of money.
HTC – P3400i is a new model launched in the second quarter of 2008 running Windows Mobile 6 Professional, the earlier model was called HTC – P3400 and ran Windows Mobile 5, as this is the most affordable phone by HTC it doesn’t have some exotic features like GPS, 3G and Wi-Fi but apart from that all other features that you expect from any modern Windows Smartphone, I purchase this phone for Rs 10, 700 with bill and warranty plus a free Bluetooth headset it was not a HTC deal but a deal going in the shop from where I purchased, if you don’t want the bill etc you can get is for around 9.5 – 10k.
The phone is pretty basic looking but don’t get me wrong it’s not ugly but also won’t win any awards for its sleekness, the phone easily fits in your hand and weighs 126 grams but feels even lighter, the screen is 7.11cms touch screen with takes up around 70% of the phone as seen in the picture, this phone also has a 2 MP camera which is just okay as it doesn’t have a flash, as this phone has a touch screen a stylus is provided with the phone but I have managed to use my fingers for most of the common tasks with the phone, the good thing about this phone is it has more physical buttons than some other Smartphone phones in its category which is a good thing, I saw another HTC phone that did not have the OK button and to close any application you would have to pull out the stylus what a pain, the phone also features a 5 way navigation button via which you can use the phone using a single hand, the phone has a Mini USB connector for charging, syncing and also to connect the hands free / stereo headset, a mini speaker is there on left hand side and has decent volume output this speaker also acts as the speaker phone, surprisingly the speaker phone functionality is very good and I often use the same while driving, the phone also supports voice dialing.
Being a windows mobile Smartphone there are a ton of applications provided, like Mobile office which contains Excel Mobile, Power point Mobile and Word Mobile, Mobile Internet Explorer, Adobe Reader LE(PDF reader), Audio Manager, Audio Booster(a great app through which you can adjust bass, treble and surround while playing music) Media Player(can play video and audio files), 2 Games, Messenger, Zip as it’s a windows mobile there are a tons of applications available I also installed Google Maps and Opera browser.
P3400i is a great affordable windows mobile phone from HTC if you can live without GPS, 3G and Wi-Fi it’s a great business phone which can easily sync data with your windows PC and I have to say it’s much better than the other Sony Ericsson or the Nokia phones that sell for a lot more than this and offer a lot less, if you planning to purchase a Smartphone or and are on a limited budget do check out this phone from HTC.