Gadgetory

hey everyone its Joe from pocketnow.com with a throwback to an old Windows mobile phone made by HTC codenamed the Star Trek this is an m8 branded phone flip it open you can see they called it the smart flip HTC call it the Star Trek because of this cool communicator style flip this was really popular right after the Motorola RAZR 's made their debut has the same style keypad on it where you've got this really nice solid feeling aluminum keypad backlit with blue in this case with most Windows mobile phones you've got your directional pad up-down left-right with an action button in the middle two soft buttons home and back as we've become accustomed to nice thing about this you've got this nice big screen up here this ran the standard edition of Windows Mobile but the good folks over at xda-developers were able to hack a version of Windows Mobile professional onto it as well no touchscreen but you had the same user interface and the hardware guts it was plenty fast enough to run it neat things about this phone on the face of it you've got your camera which is a way facing camera when it's open but down here you've got this neat little LCD and I'd love to be able to show this to you but this mechanism right here eventually wears out the connection in the middle so the screen doesn't work the rest of the phone works great just nothing on the screen kind of defeats the purpose of a smart phone in my opinion but with this external facing LCD you've got caller ID you've got date time with your little playback buttons down here at the bottom track back track forward and play pause you even got control over all of your mp3s or WMAs so really neat on the inside pop the battery cover off you've got your slot for a sim so it'll work on any of your GSM networks no 3G in this phone folks is strictly edged doesn't even have Wi-Fi but it does have bluetooth which you can surf the web over to find out you've also got a microSD slot in it this was one of the first phones that came with a microSD slot very nice solid other than this one little design flaw another great phone from HTC so for pocketnow.com I'm Joe Levi with a throwback of the im8 smart flip also known as the HTC Star Trek