The HTC Excalibur is a smartphone

Smartphone

A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone. The first smartphones were devices that mainly combined the functions of a personal digital assistant and a mobile phone or camera...

 model manufactured by High Tech Computer

High Tech Computer

HTC Corporation , formerly High Tech Computer Corporation, is a Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones. The company initially made smartphones based mostly on Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system software, but in 2009 it began to shift its core focus away from Windows Mobile devices to...

 beginning in 2006. It is rebranded and sold as the O₂

O2 plc

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 Xda Cosmo, the T-Mobile

T-Mobile

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 Dash, the HTC S621 for Rogers Wireless

Rogers Wireless

Rogers Wireless is a wireless telecommunications provider offering mobile phone and data services throughout Canada using Global System for Mobile Communications and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System technology. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rogers Communications...

 in Canada, the HTC S621 for Suncom Wireless in the lower-eastern United States, the BT ToGo (as part of the BT Total Broadband Anywhere package), and the Dopod

Dopod

Dopod is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of Windows Mobile smartphones, operating in the South East Asia and Australasia. Dopod International was founded in 2004 and it is now directly owned by the Taiwanese Windows Mobile device manufacturer HTC with over 50% of shares...

 C720W.

Features

The device runs the Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft that was used in smartphones and Pocket PCs, but by 2011 was rarely supplied on new phones. The last version is "Windows Mobile 6.5.5"; it is superseded by Windows Phone, which does not run Windows Mobile software.Windows Mobile is...

 5 and 6 Smartphone Edition operating systems (AKU 3.0

Adaptation kit upgrade

An Adaptation kit upgrade is a way of updating Microsoft's Windows Mobile.It is a collection of updates, fixes and enhancements to the tools delivered to hardware device manufacturers to create or update devices based on a specific platform.This term is used by Microsoft to designate the current...

). It uses a 200MHz Texas Instruments OMAP850 (ARM architecture

ARM architecture

ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings. It was named the Advanced RISC Machine, and before that, the Acorn RISC Machine. The ARM architecture is the most widely used 32-bit ISA in numbers produced...

) processor, with 64 MB of RAM and 128 MB of flash ROM. A microSD slot is also available for additional expansion capability.

It includes a quad band (850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 1900 MHz) GSM

Global System for Mobile Communications

GSM , is a standard set developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to describe technologies for second generation digital cellular networks...

 radio with EDGE

Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution

Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM...

, 802.11g WiFi support, and Bluetooth

Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...

 communications. The device syncs with ActiveSync

ActiveSync

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 or Windows Mobile Device Center

Windows Mobile Device Center

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 (Windows Vista

Windows Vista

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 and Windows 7) over Bluetooth or USB. It also has GPRS/EDGE and Wi-Fi connections.

Its successor, the HTC S630

HTC Cavalier

The HTC Cavalier is a smartphone model manufactured by High Tech Computer beginning in 2006.-External links:*...

 (codenamed Cavalier) was released August 2007.

T-Mobile initially shipped Windows Mobile 5 on all Dash devices, but began offering existing Dash owners the ability to update to Windows Mobile 6 on May 4, 2007.

Version of Windows Mobile 6.1 such as Kavanna's and Ricky's are available but not supported by T-Mobile. It also supports Windows Mobile 6.5.
This phone is in the process of being ported to android by xda-developers

Xda-developers

xda-developers is a community of over 4 million users worldwide, started in 2003. The site's main purpose is discussion of Windows Phone, Android, and WebOS phones. They are also one of the first places that Windows Mobile and Android users come for general information of the device, ROM upgrades...

.

Bluetooth

The phone supports Bluetooth 2.0 without EDR and could support these profiles:

• A2DP-Source
• AVCTP
• AVDTP
• AVRCP-Target
• BNEP
• FT-Client
• FT-Server
• GAP
• GAVDP
• Generic Object Exchange
• HandsFree-AG (1.0)
• Headset-AG
• HID-Host
• OPP-Client
• OPP-Server
• PAN-AP
• SAP-Server
• SDAP
• Serial-DevA
• Serial-DevB

New firmware versions disable nearly a half of these profiles, including FTP according to the pre-commercial review.

See also

• Samsung Blackjack, a competing smartphone with similar specifications.
• Motorola Q
  Motorola Q
  The Motorola Q is a Windows Mobile smartphone first announced in the Summer of 2005 as a thin device with similar styling to Motorola's immensely popular RAZR. Motorola in a partnership with Verizon Wireless released the Q on May 31, 2006...
  
  , a competing smartphone with similar specifications.

External links

• Official HTC S620 product description at HTC manufacturer website
• T-Mobile Dash product description
• HTC Source: a news blog dedicated to HTC devices
• HTC Wiki: The Dash FAQ
• HTC S620 review from 16 Jan 2007 by IT Week
  IT Week
  IT Week is a weekly newspaper for the UK computing industry, published by Incisive Media.It was launched on 18 May 1998 and was originally published by the UK subsidiary of American media company Ziff Davis. In late 2000, Ziff Davis sold all its UK print publications, including IT Week, to VNU...