14 DAY TRIAL // Oh yeah baby! I finally got a glimpse of what the future of smartphones will look like. Not only the newly unveiled handset from HTC, the Vox, has a numeric keypad on the front but it also sports a sliding-out full QWERTY. Why am I so excited about this? Well, if this info is the true thing than the Vox is the first MS Smartphone mobile device that will come with a sliding-out QWERTY based keyboard on the mobile market.
And, as a plus, in case you are not that easily pleased with what I told you about it until now, you will also be getting a 5-way jog bar right under the front display. If that is not full options control for your newly acquired smartphone than what can it be?
Apart from all the keypads, keyboards and bars available on the quad-band Vox, the package also includes a 2 megapixel digital camera, a 2.4 inch 240x320 pixels QVGA display capable of both portrait and landscape orientation, a microSD memory expansion card slot for the storage needy individuals out there, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB and EDGE connectivity, 128 MB of ROM memory and 96 MB of RAM, not to mention the Windows Mobile for Smartphone operating system all stuffed up with a full Office Mobile suite that will let you get your work done wherever you might be at any given moment.
As far as I know, until now, this new HTC handset is most probably to be launched sometime during the second quarter of 2007, so if you want to lump together a Vox and some other dull presents for your loved ones this Christmas, you should really get over it because it "just ain't gonna happen" :).
You'd better kiss this idea goodbye and head over to some supermarket, buy yourself and your family some big red socks and write a letter to Santa just in case he has some HTC inside contacts to make your wish (and mine) come true. Or, better yet, wait until its official launch if you don't have any kind of writing skills so you can convince the white bearded guy living at the North Pole that you really need it.
See you next time because I have a letter to write :).