HTC today unveiled its next generation business phone, the HTC Touch Pro.The HTC Touch Pro (HTC Rafael) was rumoured to be announced in last months unveiling of the HTC Touch Diamond but HTC have waited until today to unleash their latest and greatest offering.
The Touch Pro features Windows Mobile 6.1, HSDPA (7.2mbps), 2.8" VGA screen, 3.2 MP camera, 512MB flash and 288MB RAM, Wi-Fi, GPS, bluetooth and a slide out 5 row QWERTY keyboard. All of the specs are backed up with a 1350 mAh battery so battery life shouldn't be too bad on this device. The Touch Pro also has similar styling and the updated touchflo interface introduced with the Diamond.
HTC is working hard to make their devices one hand, one touch capable allowing users to take advantage of their 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D. The TouchFLO interface allows users to surf through popular functions of the device such as messaging, calendar appointments and making calls. Thankfully for Windows Mobile we have great OEMs like HTC creating a better user experience than that of Microsoft, many devoted Windows Mobile MVPs, users and customers have been pushing Microsoft to fix simple issues with the Windows Mobile OS since 2000. Microsoft plans to re-invent the OS with Windows Mobile 7 and address many of the complaints.
The HTC Touch Pro will be available to customers across all major European, Asian and the Middle East markets in late summer. The North American and Latin American versions of Touch Pro will be available later in 2008.
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At first I thought they were talking about the HTC Touch Diamond.. which looks awesome as well!
but this one.. this makes my t-mobile shadow look like junk!
It looks nice though.
http://www.htc.com/www/product.aspx?id=49518
To pay (guessing) £500 for, like the diamond almost costs?
You may be right, a google search result shows the Touch pro to be at around £300, while the diamond is nearly £500.
You may be right, a google search result shows the Touch pro to be at around £300, while the diamond is nearly £500.
£500 is still a good price when you take into account that most people are comparing it with the iPhone, which costs nearly twice as much, so it's a bargain!
You may be right, a google search result shows the Touch pro to be at around £300, while the diamond is nearly £500.
£500 is still a good price when you take into account that most people are comparing it with the iPhone, which costs nearly twice as much, so it's a bargain!
I don't know where your shopping for iPhones but they wasn't £1000
You may be right, a google search result shows the Touch pro to be at around £300, while the diamond is nearly £500.
£500 is still a good price when you take into account that most people are comparing it with the iPhone, which costs nearly twice as much, so it's a bargain!
I don't know where you people shop but here in the NL the HTC Touch Diamond is barely 450 euros. That's about 300~325 pound..
Looks like I'll be a HTC fan, unless Apple comes up with a iPhone - One Hand Edition.
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160gram and 18mm thick .. that's a bit much for me :X
That's just barely thinner then my old HTC Wizard and just as heavy (read: real heavy).
I liked the low-weight of my touch dual. need qwerty tough ... NEED it....
But I notice in the spec it doesn't say WCDMA 850MHz. So that rules us Telstra NextG users out then? What a rip.
Europe/Asia: 900/2100 MHz
Up to 384 kbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds"
Now that's gotta change to true world-wide specs. HTC is doing their best with the hardware aspect and software frontend and tweakings, but Microsoft is lagging behind major times with the foundation, Windows Mobile. Personally I'm going to stick to my Kaiser until the next update.
"The HTC Touch Pro combines business with pleasure, offering one-handed operation..."
Henceforth to be known as the 'HTC Touch (yourself) Pro'
I'm currently stuck with a tiny 64MB rom, this new 288MB will be a god send. I have a problem atm with games that use the touch screen due to it using a lot of cpu and slowing things down so hopefully this will be awesome. One thing I do like about this over the Diamond (apart from the keyboard) is tht it can have the external Micro SD card (Diamond can't if I remember rightly) Shame about no 3G but I don't mind too much.
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