HTC Artemis P3300 Review Roundup

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- Added review by PocketNow & Mobile-Review ( 22nd November, 2006)

O2 released HTC Artemis or so called HTP P3300 in the mid-September 2006 in Germany. The HTC Artemis P3300 is a pda-phone that runs on GSM/GPRS/EDGE featuring 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0 (including support for A2DP Bluetooth stereo), 802.11g/b WiFi, 201Mhz TI 850 OMAP CPU, Windows Mobile 5.0 as well as 512 MB microSD card with preinstalled navigation maps of German, Austria and Switzerland.

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PocketNow reviews the HTC Artemis P3300, they rated the pda-phone 4/5 and write:
“The best parts of the P3300 are that it’s thinner and lighter than the HTC Prophet and adds a GPS SirfSTAR III receiver as well as the very innovative trackball scroll-wheel interface…PROS: Thin, small and lightweight, Trackball scroll wheel combination, Built in SiRFStar III GPS, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, Great battery life, Includes TomTom Navigator 6. CONS:TI OMAP850 201Mhz processor can be slow, Screen is horrible outdoors and doesn’t have automatic brightness, Scroll wheel is a bit loose and flimsy, No UMTS/HSDPA, iGuidance v3 can’t use it’s built in GPS.”

Mobile-Review reviews the HTC Artemis P3300, they write:
“HTC’s build quality is traditionally splendid…The plastic the casing is made of looks expensive, and lives up to this impression when you touch it…In e-book mode (minimal backlighting level, auto-scrolling in Haali Reader) the communicator lasted almost 23 hours, which is considerably better than HTC Wizard owing to low display’s energy consumption at dim backlighting. In music mode …the battery went low after 14 hours and 20 minutes. When it was given a real challenge (playback of video stored on memory card, maximized backlighting level), the P3300 managed to stay active for 5 hours and 40 minutes.”

OnTheGo Solutions reviews the HTC Artemis P3300, they write:
“Although only sporting a 200Mhz processor, the Artemis performed well at the majority of tasks. Accessing contacts, scrolling through emails, running 3rd party applications were easy and quick, with no stalling or freezing. And, the EDGE-enabled internet access was satisfactory for basic web-browsing and email retrieval…As a phone, the P3300 is an above average PPC phone. Call quality is excellent, with parties on the receiving end hearing me neither especially clear nor particularly fuzzy.”