Smart and skinny STRTrk arrives

Posted by T3 Online on Mon 8 May 2006

It's a smart phone, Jim, but not as we know it: it's only 16mm deep, for one thing!

When it comes to phones, it seems that slim is most definitely in. First there was the so-skinny-it-could-cut-your-hand-off Motorola RAZR, then the wafer-thin 3G BenQ-Siemens EF81 - and now there's this svelte customer, HTC's STRTrk.

It's a smart phone, yes, but this is no overweight pocket Poindexter - it's a 99g clamshell with a mere 16mm in the depth department. That makes it only 2mm thicker and 4g heavier than the RAZR V3, fact fans.

It runs on the Windows Mobile 5.0 platform, so you get Pocket Outlook and Office Mobile, which you can view on the 2.2-inch main screen. You can take snaps on a 1.3 megepixel camera and listen to WAV, WMA and MP3 tunes by using the dedicated play, fast forward and rewind buttons on the outer shell.

The STRTrk boldly goes forth beyond the final frontier (i.e. into a phone shop near you) in June, and it'll cost around £350.