Telus HTC S720 in the wild

by Michael Caputo posted Jun 8th 2007 at 9:16AM

Our favorite Canadian carrier, Telus, is launching another HTC product before everyone -- this time it's the the Libra running Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard. Featuring a full numeric keypad and a slide down QWERTY keyboard, a 2 megapixel shooter, microSD expansion, and stereo Bluetooth, this device is built to please. Click on through for more pics!

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Telus Mobility, Windows Mobile, 1xRTT, EV-DO, CDMA

Tags: 6.0, canada, cdma, ev do, evdo, htc, libra, s720, smartphone, telus, telus mobility, TelusMobility, windows mobile, windowsmobile

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Owen @ Feb 27th 2008 1:57PM

I am on my second htc-s720 and going on to my third s720 cause telus is replacing it once again but i find the the phone will last a month and a half to three month and then when u turn it on the phone will freeze on the start up screen and telus will order you and refurbished phone from htc and in the mean time you are phone less for about a week to a week and a half o by the way they also tell you the it should take 2 buissnes days for your new phone to be in..... dont beleive them i know first hand

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Owen @ Feb 27th 2008 1:59PM

dose anyone know why they freeze at the opening screen??

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Chris @ Mar 21st 2008 8:16PM

Is the carrier for HTC S720 att?

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alleniversontheanswer @ Jul 8th 2008 2:24AM

can please help me?
i am in lost of troble. i ordered the HTC S720 and i'm trying to fit my sim in it!
can u guyz please figure out a way where i can put my sim card? i am lost and i dont wanna do anything wrong with this cell phone. thnx alot

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Alex @ Sep 13th 2008 9:07AM

If its a Telus Phone then you dont need a SIM card, they are on the Quallcom network, where as AT&T and rogers are on GSM, allowing us to switch out our SIM cards, but sadly most other carriers do not use SIM cards now.. Verison may pick it up but nothings 100%

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Digital Man @ Jun 8th 2007 9:25AM

Hey Verizon, what's the holdup?

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Dylan @ Jun 8th 2007 9:27AM

My sister got one of these yesterday from tellus when her Moto Q bit the dust.

I was playing with it last night and I found the closeness of the keys and overall lack of heigh differentiation between them made it quite hard to type. Granted that may also be because both of my thumbs on the keyboard, cover the entire thing.

It was also a bit of a bitch navigating the menu while in landscape mode with the keyboard out as you have to hold it in an odd way so that you can manipulate the dpad. I found that while navigating left and right in that position almost every time i would try to hit the dpad, i'd hit the button in the middle instead.

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murph @ Jun 8th 2007 11:25AM

why would you use the dpad when there are arrow keys on the keyboard? wouldn't that be easier and less inconvenient to hold?

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Dylan @ Jun 8th 2007 11:51AM

I found the keyboard all together inconvenient and subequently didn't notice the arrow keys.

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Christian Fredrickson @ Jun 8th 2007 11:36AM

hey is this phone not just a S710 reskined.

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Mark @ Jun 8th 2007 12:22PM

Christian, it has a faster processor, no wifi, different keyboard and different shell. I'd say its a completely different phone. ;-)

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JeffNLA @ Jun 8th 2007 1:00PM

No wi-fi! Of course - verizon could not give you that...!

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Michael2487 @ Jun 8th 2007 1:29PM

there is wi-fi and it is currently for sale on telus' site!!!! I hope that verizon will get this soon!!!

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Shawn @ Jun 9th 2007 12:24AM

nope unfortunately no wifi. I looked at the user guide and specifications on the Telus site and there was no mention of it.

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MTM @ Jun 8th 2007 2:11PM

The chipset used in this phone is the Qualcomm MSM7500, which is pretty much the CDMA version of the MSM7200 which is used by HTC Kaiser:

http://www.cdmatech.com/docs_details/chip_tool/chip_results.jsp?chip=9&chip=5

I wonder if the GPS is only software disabled, so that it can be enabled by a little tweaking (like in the HTC Trinity/P3600)...

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Martial Dufour @ Jun 9th 2007 8:29PM

guys, it's twin brother, the p4000 has wi-fi and has a bigger display, better phone altogether http://www.telusmobility.com/ns/pcs/handset_htc_p4000.shtml

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gino @ Jun 19th 2007 6:55PM

I ownt the p4000 its the best phone i ever owned i had the palm trio 700wx garbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage wifi works great little bit of freezing once and a while but hey i love it anyway the other thing is the battery sucks doesont last half as long as my trio

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nae @ Sep 16th 2007 11:43AM

i really really really want his phone BADLY...but the thing is i dont have the money...bummed out!

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Neisha @ Dec 12th 2007 7:14PM

Is some one selling a unlocked HTC S720. I want to insert the SIM card in the phone and use is as normal

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