Qtek 8300

This Windows Mobile-smartphone is designed as a candybar and based on HTC Tornado, the OS is Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphone. There are special player buttons, the CPU is TI OMAP 850 200 MHz, 1.3 MP camera, Wi-Fi and microSD connector are its peculiarities.

• Class: smartphone run by Windows Mobile
• Position in the line: above HTC Hurricane
• Rivals: no direct rivals, indirect Samsung i300
• Test based description

• General features
  • Announced in August 2005
  • eGSM 850/900/1800/1900
  • Battery type Li-Ion 1150 mAh
  • Battery life:
  • talk mode 5 hours
  • standby mode up to 10 days
  • Colour screen, TFT (2.2 ") with the resolution of 240x320 pixels, shows up to 65 K colours
  • OS: Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphone
  • CPU: TI OMAP 850, 200 MHz
  • Weight: 121 gramms
  • Dimensions: 109x47x18-20 mm

• Memory
  • Phonebook, several numbers for a name, also you can assign a picture, a photo and a melody, including MP3
  • Unlimited number of user groups, assign a name to several groups at the same time
  • Call lists, no limit on the number of entries, Call type is specified as well as its date and duration. Set a storage period for call entries (a month by default)
  • RAM: 64 MB (50.75 MB available to a user)
  • ROM: 14.92 MB available to a user for data storage, and program installation
  • Memory slot for miniSD

• Call management, ringing tones
  • Vibracall
  • Polyphonic call melodies, 40-tones polyphony
  • Fast dial
  • Automatic redial
  • Speakerphone

• SMS
  • Concatenated messages
  • Message templates
  • Sending and receiving graphical messages

• Camera
  • Integrated CMOS camera, 1.3 MP, the maximum resolution of 1280x1024 pixels
  • Records video as MP4, H.263, Motion-JPEG, AVI (with the resolution of 176x144 or 128x96 pixels)
  • Digital zoom 4x
  • Lighting conditions are tunable, colour effects

• Multimedia
  • Integrated video and audio player Windows Media
  • Album - application for viewing miltimedia files (possible resolutions: bmp, jpg, gif, avi, mp4, 3gp, mid, wav)
  • Java (MIDP 2.0)

• Connectivity
  • Integrated mail client (SMTP/POP3/IMAP4)
  • GPRS class B multi-slot class 10
  • EDGE class 10
  • WAP 2.0/xHTML
  • Irda
  • Wi-Fi (802.11b)
  • Bluetooth 1.2
  • MMS
  • Push e-mail
  • SyncML
  • Synchronization with PC (miniUSB, Irda, Bluetooth)

• Organizer and extras
  • Complete set of standard applications for Windows Mobile
  • MIDlet Manager - the utility which starts Java applications
  • Clear Storage - formatting of phone's memory, hard reboot
  • File Manager - file browser, can unzip ZIP archives
  • Modem Link - work as an external modem
  • Task Manager - task manager shows running applications, closes unnecessary ones to free some space
  • Dictaphone
  • Date, time, world time
  • Alarm clock, reminder
  • Timer, stopwatch, calculator

Michail Machnaev (michail.machnaev@mobile-review.com)
Published — 27 November 2006

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