HTC Touch Pro
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With an attractive silver trim, smoky mirrored, sleek, rounded edge slide-out QWERTY keyboard HTC announced a Touch Pro in june2008. A 4 inches tall by 2 inches wide by 0.7 inch deep and 165 g, the Touch Pro is heavy and thick, making for a pretty tight fit in a pants pocket. The handset has a solid construction and features a soft-touch finish on back for extra texture.

With a resolution of640x480 pixel, everything looks incredibly vibrant and sharp on screen. In several of the programs–more specifically e-mail, the camera, and music–you can go through your files and messages by swiping your thumb/finger up or down the screen, all with a cool animated 3D effect. There is a toolbar along the bottom of the screen that lets you scroll left to right and launch applications with one touch.
The Touch Pro is also equipped with an accelerometer, so when you physically rotate the phone in left or right direction, the screen orientation goes from portrait mode to landscape mode. The accelerometer only works in certain applications, such as pictures, video, and Web browsing, but not for others like Office documents, Calendar, or e-mail when the handset is closed. The screen also changes to landscape mode when you slide open the keyboard, and you get a new menu layout of eight shortcuts (E-mail, Messages, Bookmarks, Web search, Calendar, Tasks, Notes, and Contacts),
The Touch Pro keyboard features large buttons with a matte finish, giving it a nice nonslip texture.
on the top of the phone there’s a volume rocker and a power button and camera is located in its back. There is a mini USB port and a reset hole on the bottom of the phone.
The Touch Pro offers a voice dialing and commands, speakerphone, speed dial. It also has Bluetooth 2.0 that supports mono- and stereo-Bluetooth headsets, hands-free kits, file sharing, dial-up networking and more text and multimedia messaging.
The Touch Pro has Sprint’s EV-DO Rev network, this is for faster Web browsing, e-mail, and downloads. The (Rev. A) gives an extra boost over regular (EV-DO) bringing download speeds upto the 600Kbps-to-1.4Mbps range versus 400Kbps-to-700Kbps, while upload speeds will average around 350Kpbs to 500Kpbs (compared with EV-DO’s 50Kpbs to 70Kbps). The Touch Pro also ships with the Opera Mobile HTML Web browser (version 9.5) which arguably gives you a better browsing experience.
The HTC Touch Pro runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Edition and comes with Windows Live integration. And other features include a business card scanner, a voice recorder, a Zip manager, Jetcet Print 5 for connecting to a printer, Adobe Reader LE, a task manager, a calculator and a notepad. The Touch Pro also supports HTML-formatted e-mail and you can access POP3 and IMAP e-mail accounts, which in most cases is a simple process of inputting your username and password.
HTC TOuch pro get the standard Windows Media Player 10 Mobile player with support for AAC, WAV, MPEG-4, MP3, WMV files, WMA and more.
As far as its memory, the Touch Pro has 512MB ROM and 288MB RAM, and has a microSD expansion slot.
Finally, the HTC Touch Pro features a 3.2-megapixel camera with up to 4x zoom and video-recording capabilities.
SPECIFICATION
| General | ||
| 2G Network | GSM 850 /900 / 1800 / 1900 | |
| 3G Network | HSDPA 900 / 2100 | |
| HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 – HTC Fuze | ||
| Announced | 2008, June | |
| Status | Available. Released 2008, August | |
| Size | ||
| Dimensions | 102 x 51 x 18.1 mm | |
| Weight | 165 g | |
| Display | ||
| Type | TFT resistive touchscreen, 65K colors | |
| Size | 640 x 480 pixels, 2.8 inches | |
| TouchFLO 3D finger swipe navigation | ||
| Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate | ||
| Full QWERTY keyboard | ||
| Touch-sensitive navigation controls | ||
| Handwriting recognition | ||
| Sound | ||
| Alert types | Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3, WAV, WMA ringtones | |
| Speakerphone | Yes | |
| Memory | ||
| Phonebook | Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall | |
| Call records | Practically unlimited | |
| Internal | 288 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM | |
| Card slot | microSD, buy momory | |
| Data | ||
| GPRS | Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps | |
| EDGE | Class 10, 236.8 kbps | |
| 3G | HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps | |
| WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g | |
| Bluetooth | Yes, v2.0 with A2DP | |
| Infrared port | No | |
| USB | Yes, miniUSB | |
| Camera | ||
| Primary | 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus, LED flash | |
| Video | Yes | |
| Secondary | VGA videocall camera | |
| Features | ||
| OS | Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional | |
| CPU | Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528 MHz processor | |
| Messaging | SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Instant Messaging | |
| Browser | WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML | |
| Radio | Stereo FM radio with RDS | |
| Games | Yes | |
| Colors | Black | |
| GPS | Yes, with A-GPS support | |
| Java | Yes, MIDP 2.0 | |
| Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF viewer) | ||
| Voice memo | ||
| MP3 player | ||
| TV-out | ||
| Battery | Standard battery, Li-Ion 1340 mAh | |
| Stand-by | Up to 406 h | |
| Talk time | Up to 8 h | |
| Misc | ||
| SAR US | 1.43 W/kg (head) 1.18 W/kg (body) |
