HTC P6500 Review by 3G.co.uk

HTC P6500 Review by 3G.co.uk

The HTC P6500 is a large format smartphone aimed primarily at businesses needing something more robust than usual, and probably isn’t the kind of thing you would want to pocket too often. But it does provide an interesting twist or two on the Windows Mobile smartphone concept.

HTC P6500 - Security matters

The P6500 is designed for situations when only robustness will do. There isn’t a lot of bling here; the casing has a rubbery easy-to-grip finish. However, there are features you do not usually get on a smartphone.

A fingerprint scanner sits below the D-pad on the front fascia, giving a level of security you will only find on a very small number of Windows Mobile devices.

Then there are the twin SD card slots. We know, SD is so old hat for smartphones that it is a real surprise to see one slot, let alone two. But, in some circumstances the larger SD cards are easier to get hold of than a microSD card. The slots have very solid rubber covers that we found a bit difficult to prize off. The good news is that they support SDHC and our test 4GB cards presented no problems. You can have up to 4GB of internal flash memory so you can really go to town with storage here.

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