O2 XDA Orbit II

O2 XDA Orbit II

It 'been so productive in the last year or so that you can think - or maybe waiting - that HTC could possibly lose the case. A little 'as a writer of the novel after novel, we may not be easy to maintain the high quality as it has recently been published with the upper end smartphones like the TyTN II and Touch Dual, to name a few.

However, continue to develop quality products that fact, and the cruise - in the form of O2 XDA orbit 2 on the review here - is no different. At first glance, nothing special. Face-to blows O2's website shows what appears to be a bog standard phone Windows Mobile PDA. There is a large screen above which is a small 2.8-inch lens for video calls, below which is a set of familiar aspect of the control buttons. You can see the usual pick-up and hang up buttons, plus a couple of shortcut keys to activate the start menu and OK controls and sides that looks like a navigation key five-lane standard.

But this is not normal PDA phone with Windows Mobile and begin to appreciate how different it is until they meet in the flesh. I'll start with the screen, unlike most touch screens I've seen in the last year, is located behind the fascia surrounding. In fact, the screen surface is one with the rest of the front of the phone: its glossy surface extends around the edges to the button cluster. Not that hard glass screen of the HTC Touch or the iPhone, however, and has a slightly plastic feel.

The effect is that the orbit is a stylish phone and feeling - and it is helped by the fact that the rest of the phone is well designed. The button cluster is formed in a matte silver plastic and has a pleasant slightly concave, sculpted shape. The rim is wrapped in shiny chrome and the rest of the Orbit frame is made of lightweight but sturdy feeling plastic finished with a tactile, non-slip rubber coating. And it turns out that the cluster of five waterways is unusual too. This is a dual-use control: not only can you click in either direction to scroll from top to bottom, left and right, the outer ring also rotates so you can scroll through the lists in a pinch.