Welcome to the fraternity of Smart Phone Laptops or should I say Smart Laptop Phones. Whatever, it may be but we got a really compact laptop in HTC Shift, the latest smart phone from HTC. This phone has everything which your laptop has been giving you. And you get a bonus with this and that’s the calling facility. Certainly calling it a phone seems quite unusual. This phone is something more than just a phone. This QuadBand GSM phone has an 800×480 pixel wide VGA 7 inches display. The TFT touch screen with 16 M colors display looks simply awesome. The color, contrast and everything reminded us our PCs. The overall dimension of this phone is 190×135x30 mm, which makes it a little bulky to carry. It has a QWERTY keyboard and the handwriting recognition software, which makes it seamless to use. You get miniSD with 1 GB RAM, 30 GB hard disk drive and 1.2 GHz via CPU. The memory capacity is really terrific. It’s even more than my first PC. Certainly, this phone is more a mini laptop in your hands. You get all the cell phone features like GPRS, EDGE, 3G and WLAN with HTS Shift. It also has an in-built Bluetooth, which looks like the final icing on the cake.

This phone enjoys the latest Windows Vista OS. But, it’s not that impressive as we are flooded with troubleshooting queries from people. Shift has a 1.2 mega pixel video call camera, which we felt little low for a phone like this. Phones like Shift are focused on corporate clan so they hardly need a camera. This phone/laptop is surely a major step towards portable computing and communications. Shift also lets you enjoy the music through Windows Media Player 11. It also has a finger print recognition along with other features.