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With just a mere “swish” of your finger on the Touch’s User interface, you’ll be able to access all your Business critical information!
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The HTC Touch is a sleek and saucy looking PDA for those that like a “Touch” of class! This is a Windows Mobile Professional (aka WM6 Pocket PC Phone) with a screen that's not only stylus-friendly like all PPCs, but is also finger sensitive.
The Touch uses a difference kind of touch screen to achieve finger-friendliness, especially gesture-awareness.
What this means is HTC has created software that's easy to operate by finger, using tap and gestures. The screen requires a firmer touch than prior Windows Mobile devices, so if you end up getting one, then we recommend you don't be shy - press it firmly for best results.
There's the Today theme with quick access to an application launcher, the weather and a listing of calendar events. The on-screen keyboard is still the tiny Windows Mobile variety rather than a specially created one (or licensed 3rd party full screen keyboard) with larger keys that would make SMS possible via finger. So be prepared to whip out the stylus for text entry….
See the HTC Touch here
More interesting is the swipe action: swipe your finger from the bottom of the display to the top to bring up a spinning 3-sided cube!!! Yes that’s right….
Swipe from right to left (or left to right) to move through these faces. One has a palette of user-assignable images for your contacts. Put your favourite folks' photos in there, then tap on the picture to bring up their contact info in the address book. You then hit the call button at the bottom of the screen. Flip your finger left or right to move to the next face of the "cube" which is an application launcher.
The third face is for multimedia: HTC's music player (which unfortunately doesn't support as many file formats as Media Player Mobile), Photos (this launches MS' Picture and Videos app) and Videos (this also launches MS' Picture and Videos app).
The HTC Touch runs Windows Mobile 6 Professional on a 201MHz processor with the standard 64 megs of RAM and 128 megs of flash ROM.
It's an unlocked triband GSM phone with EDGE for data. The first version released will be triband 900/1800/1900MHz, which is better suited to Europe and Asia!
The remarkably small Touch also has WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, a 2 megapixel camera and a standard QVGA resolution display. The 2 megapixel CMOS camera with fixed focus lens takes acceptable photos. Given how little room there is inside the phone for camera hardware, we're not surprised that image quality took a hit - Images suffer from excessive foreground sharpening (so much so that detail is actually obliterated) that jars with un-sharpened background areas and creates a sense of limited focus.
The HTC Touch is available in two colours: black and wasabi green.
In summary:
The HTC Touch is a beautiful, very small PDA phone, something we just about never get to say. It's the perfect phone for style conscious buyers who need a PDA's features and advanced functions, but don't want to carry an ugly brick. However, those who text or email frequently won't be happy with the tiny on-screen keyboard and (very functional) handwriting recognition. The Touch isn't meant to compete with hardware-keyboarded PDA and smartphones like the BlackBerry 8800.
Features of the HTC Touch include:
- 2.0 Mega Pixel Digital camera
- Wireless Interface
- WiFi
- Short Messaging Service (SMS)
- Cellular technology GSM
- Band / mode GSM 900/1800/1900
Specifications of the HTC Touch
- Width: 2.3 in
- Depth: 0.5 in
- Height: 3.9 in
- Weight: 0.3 lbs
- Talk time: Up to 300 min
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