I replaced my Nokia 7610 with a
HTC vox s710. After getting the handset most of the things were clear to me. One is the operating system, there are two different versions of Microsoft windows mobile 6.0 available.
1. Smartphone edition
2. Pocket pc edition
Smart phone edition is without the start menu. usually comes with the cellphones without touch screen. and the same is avaliable with HTC s710.
Pocket PC edition is which comes with the start menu and for cell phones with touch screen.
Overall performance was pretty okay but the cell is very delicate (or my use is very rough..).
The next day i got the cell and carried it to the trek at Rajgadh.It almost got wet and its navigation buttons stopped working. Although the navigations started working after couple of days.
It takes lot of time to get habituated from the navigation of nokia to htc.
what i liked most in this phone is the GPRS EDGE whch is preety faster and WiFi..I tried connecting it in MCD and pizza hut and works preety good :). I wis if i could have carried this to toronto...!!
The default applications which comes with the phone does not have exit button. it remains in memory and slows down the system...we have to kill those applications using task manager..its really a crap when you use the camera and you cannot exit the application and it continues running occupying all the memory.
I tried installing various plugins and homescreens. unfortunately after uninstalling the windows theme..it cleared the start menu :-(.
now i am planning to hardboot the system and install new ROM. But still havent gathered that guts :)..
there are very few freewares available as its a windows mobile operating system.There were tons of them for symbian :)
Installing application with symbian was very easy using the nokia pc suite. windows mobile we have to connect it using activesync and then install it. this also took time to get habituated..!!
The sound and video quality are preety good.although i didn't used much of it.
The screen gets scratched easily and also the buttons start loosing the silver color...!! i think HTC should work on making the body of cell phone more sturdy..
here is a very good link available for htc vox..
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Vox