Qtek 8500

This Windows Mobile-smartphone is designed as a clamshell and based on HTC Star Trek, the OS is Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphone. EDGE support, 1.3 MP camera, Bluetooth module and microSD connector are its peculiarities.

• Class: Windows Mobile smartphone
• Position in the line: starts
• Rivals: indirect rival of Nokia N71
• Description based on official information

• General features
  • Announced in February 2006
  • eGSM 850/900/1800/1900
  • Battery type Li-Ion 750 mAh
  • External colour screen, 1.2 ", the resolution of 128x128 pixels, shows up to 65000 colours
  • Colour screen, TFT, (34 x 45 mm) with the resolution of 240x320 pixels, shows 65 K colours
  • OS: Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphone
  • CPU: Texas Instruments OMAP850 200 MHz
  • Сolours: black
  • Weight: 99 gramms
  • Dimensions: 98.5 x 51.4 x 15.8 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
  • ROM: 64 MB
  • Memory slot for microSD

• 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: 1.3 MP, the maximum resolution of 1280x1024 pixels
  • Records video
  • Digital zoom 4x
  • Lighting conditions are tunable, colour effects

• Multimedia
  • Integrated video and audio player Windows Media 10
  • 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/EDGE class B multi-slot class 10
  • WAP 2.0/xHTML
  • Bluetooth 2.0
  • MMS
  • Push e-mail
  • SyncML
  • Synchronization with PC (USB, Bluetooth)

• Organizer and extras
  • Complete set of standard applications for Windows Mobile
  • ClearVue Suite - utilities for working with MS Office
  • Clear Storage - formatting of phone's memory, hard reboot
  • Task Manager - task manager shows running applications, closes unnecessary ones to free some space
  • MIDlet Manager - starts Java applications
  • File Manager - file browser, can unzip ZIP archives
  • 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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