The product code should read P3400i. It is a variant of P3400 with Windows Mobile 6. Comes with all the usual Windows-desktop-like application, IE, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF reader. The product catalogue provides the hardware specifications as 128K/64K RAM/ROM with 200MHz processor. This is explained in experience terms later on.
For a sub-10K phone with all desktop like feature this is the best buy. You can read e-mails from your office exchange server and other providers, so you are never out of touch. Subscribe to an unlimited GPRS plan to fully utilize the connectivity features. Install FRING and Opera for chatting and browsing. On Pocket IE, you cannot browse more than one site at a time hence Opera will provide you an option to check another site. Subscribe to IRCTC mobile for online train booking.
Get Google maps. It interpolates your location by the tower information and is very good while driving in new towns. Install Adobe reader full version. It provides a cleaner view. Install DivX player and vTap for videos and YouTube for long journeys.
Talk quality is excellent, even compared to Nokia high-end sets. I use it as a conference bridge and the voice quality is superb. The music PB quality is nice but not as nice as Sony. You also get a free leather pouch, screen guard, spare stylus and headset for free. All these are very important since other HTC models don’t come with many freebies.
Now for the baddies. Very poor battery life. If you are used to 3-4 days with your Nokia then you would curse this phone since it needs to be tethered to the charger constantly. The touch interface is annoying sometimes, even when you wish to dial someone. Keep a pointy finger-nail in handy. Cannot be trusted as alarm, since you can never be sure whether it will ring or not (too many settings to fiddle with). No Wi-Fi. You wont miss it until you are at a Cybercafe or Airport. You cannot run too many applications at a time. So dont expect to run a chat session, while composing an e-mail with cross reference to a browser. No heavy muli-tasking or games that use more than 2MB RAM. And of course invest in a 2GB SD card for storing all your programs and files, and backup your SMS and contact from time to time. You will end up hard-booting many times in the first few weeks.
In short you will end up buying another phone for making calls and keep this one for the office work. But for under 10, 000 of your hard-earned monies, you cannot go wrong with a gadget that lets you stay in touch for cheap. In case you want to up the ante a bit you can go for the Touch Pro for 5k more and you can run more applications. But this is a never-ending game so match your pocket with your requirement.
I would personally like to get a bluetooth keyboard at thinkgeeks.com as a value addition. I recommend this product for people working in IT companies who need to keep in touch without the risk of looking uncool :) And dont drop it ...ever.... If you do then repairing it is a costly affair, but you wont feel as much as my friend who dropped his 26K Blackberry...