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I got a chance to play with both of these wonderful devices this evening. I was told not to take pictures, but was allowed one cam phone snap!

Read on for my 1st impressions of these devices…

The HTC Trinity was a very sleek phone that is similar to the Jam and is basicly an HTC TyTN without the keyboard, similar to how the Jam(no Keyboard) is to the Kjam (Keyboard). The sleek looks come from a glossy finished, smooth feeling casing. The Trinity was VERY responsive with the 400mhz processor inside. The phone did feel very solid and not as flimsy as it could look to some. One problem I had with it was trying to get to the battery. I left still not knowing how to get to it. That’s about it for the Trinity, just ho hum…

Now the Artemis on the other hand… It is something brand new for HTC, it is beautiful, it is sleek, it is small, and it WILL BE MINE SOON. If you can see in the picture from Bengalboy.com above, the Artemis is about the same thickness as the soon to come Motorola RAZR replacement. It is really thin. To give it a comparison to a "Pocket PC", it is not much bigger than the iPaq 1900 series from a couple years ago.

The cool bells and whisle are sure to make this a battery drainer though. It has an FM receiver that works wonderfully, but you MUST have the earphones in to act as an antenna. No, it has great reception, the software won’t run with it out. It has a built in GPS, which I did not test since there was no maps or celluar service on the device. This unit had Destinator preinstalled. The Artemis also has 802.11 B and G WiFi, a Micro SD Slot under the battery, Bluetooth, and a 200mhz processor.

Let sum that up:

• Microsoft Windows Mobile 5 PPC CE
• 2.8 inch QVGA TFT LCD touch screen
• 128MB ROM, 64 MB RAM
• TI OMAP 850 at 200 MHz
• Wireless WAN
• EDGE / GPRS / GSM
• Quad-band 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz
• Bluetooth
• Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g
• 2 MP digital camera
• FM Radio 
• GPS
• 1250 mAh battery
• Mini USB 1.1
• Micro SD expansion slot

Well, I didn’t cover all of that, but…

Another cool feature is the trackball like center button on the dpad. When you push down, it is a select button. When you move it around with your finger, it’s a track ball and controls a mouse on the display similar to the iPaq HX4700 series. The ring around the dpad rotates to act as a scroll wheel. This is some serious innovation.

On the software side, everything I ran was peppy as could be. I noticed that Sprite Backuo was preinstalled. The rest of the of the Windows Mobile 5 setup are basicly the same as normal from what I saw.

The design is bullet proof. The unit is a solid feeling metalish grey look and all the lines are smooth. The bottom of the device has the mini usb jack. All the other side buttons are recessed into a nice metal strip that lines the side of the unit making it harder to hit one of them by mistake.

I can answer any other questions, please bear in mind that I just had a short time of playing with this unit tonight.

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