News - HTC launches smartphone for the masses

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The HTC Smart is designed to offer smartphone functionality at a mainstream price.

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[j.o.s.h.1408]

Is it android or WM?

[MadduckUK]

Is it android or WM?

It operates and derives apps from Qualcomm's Brew mobile platform,

so thats a "neither" then

[mikemikemi]

so thats a "neither" then

So it's a smart phone that's not a smart phone?

[Singh400]

Good idea HTC

[Arthran]

So it's a smart phone that's not a smart phone?

So the Nokia N97 isnt a smart phone because it doesnt run Android or Windows? So the iPhone isnt a Smartphone either? Come on now, we're not in a 1 or the other world, anybody can make a smart phone, its what the phone can do that makes it a smart phone, not what OS its running.

[directhex]

So the Nokia N97 isnt a smart phone because it doesnt run Android or Windows? So the iPhone isnt a Smartphone either? Come on now, we're not in a 1 or the other world, anybody can make a smart phone, its what the phone can do that makes it a smart phone, not what OS its running.

Actually, the OS is a major defining factor in "what the phone can do".

Would you call the LG Viewty or Samsung Jet smartphones?