HTC Touch Phone Review:

HTC Touch Phone - Melding the power of Windows Mobile 6 with an innovative touchscreen navigation interface, HTC Touch Phone is a deceptively small and stylish mobile phone that brings together email and other essential business applications with Sprint’s exclusive multimedia content including over-the-air music downloads, live TV and more. Leveraging the broad functionality of Windows Mobile 6 Professional (for touchscreens), the HTC Touch Phone includes Outlook Mobile, Office Mobile and the capabilities to run thousands of third-party applications. It also allows you to surf the web with Internet Explorer, send and receive emails, chat on Messenger, and send files to your own web space through Windows Live. Nicely compact at just 0.6 inches thin and 4 ounces, the HTC Touch Phone also features a 2.0-megapixel camera/camcorder, fast Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR with stereo music streaming profile, MicroSD expansion, digital audio and video player, and speedy downloads via Sprint’s EV-DO network.

HTC Touch Phone Features
With a nearly 3-inch display, the HTC Touch Phone’s navigation is powered by TouchFLO technology–new underlying touch screen technology developed by HTC–which provides smooth navigation through menus with a finger swipe. Simply sweep your finger up the display to launch an animated, three-dimensional interface comprising three screens: Contacts, Media and Applications. In addition, the innovative TouchFLO cube brings a 3D cube interface allowing quick access to entertainment, communication tools and a “dial-by-picture” photo caller ID screen. It is intelligent enough to distinguish between finger and input via the included stylus and then respond accordingly. The new HTC-designed home screen provides one-touch access to emails, text messages, calendar appointments and contacts, as well as current weather conditions and forecasts for hundreds of cities around the world. Since you’ll be accessing most functions via the touchscreen, it includes only buttons for a cursor pad, send and end, camera, and volume rocker. In addition to real-time synchronization with Microsoft Exchange via Windows Mobile’s Direct Push Technology, the HTC Touch Phone also supports Sprint Mobile Email for access to up to three email accounts. It’s also loaded with instant messaging capabilities for AIM, Yahoo, and Windows Live. The Touch also enables sending of SMS and MMS messages, and it includes XT9 predictive text entry (the new version of the T9), with Key features including a word prediction list and spelling correction which spots transposed letters and missed keys, as well as instant integration into all applications on the device. The HTC Touch Phone’s contact list is limited only by available memory, and you can store up to 12 numbers per entry as well as home/work addresses, email, IM name, birthday, and more.

You can load up your MP3 files on optional MicroSD cards (up to 4 GB in size) via a USB connection from your PC, or download music from the Sprint Music Store. The integrated Windows Media Player Mobile allows you to play your favorite music, videos and more while you’re on the go, and it synchs music seamlessly with Windows Media Player on a Windows-based computer.

HTC Touch Phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 + EDR (enhanced data rate) wireless connectivity, and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, object push, file transfer, audio/video remote control, and basic printing. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking–surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server. Send contacts, calendar events, and pictures/videos/voice memos wirelessly.

The 2.0-megapixel camera on the back of the HTC Touch Phone has a 5x digital zoom and includes a choice of five resolutions and four quality settings. Other imaging features include white balance controls, night mode, image effects, and self-timer. You can also capture video clips in either MPEG4 or H.263 format, and record video for as long as you have available memory.

Other HTC Touch Phone features include:

• E911 Emergency Location Enabled: This phone features an embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) chip, necessary for utilizing the E911 emergency location services, where available.
• Sprint’s On-Demand service with up-to-date information on sports, weather, news, money and more customized by zip code
• Voice activated dialing
• Voice memo recorder
• Streaming music access to Sprint Radio, Pandora, SIRIUS, VH1, and MTV

HTC Touch Phone User Said:

I am often seeking new toys, electronics that is. And my recent purchase of the touch is something I definately will not be regreting three to six months later when something newer comes out. After doing some research on specs and capabilities on HTC Touch Phone, the I-Phone, Tilt, and some other smartphones that were cheaper but offered similar capabilities, I must say this is the one I would recommend everyone. I’ve been a long subcriber of Sprint, and was never impressed on how their phones ranked with other service providers, specially since sprint tends to be slightly more expensive than others.

However, after one week of owning this phone I must say that this phone is hands down better than the iphone. I can do much more with HTC Touch Phone, and I am able to purchase anything else I might need for whatever I may want to do or need to do. The software is somewhat complex for those who may lack the brain power (no offense), but if you sit down and read the instructions throughtly you will find out that it is not that bad, and once you get the hang of it you can actually function around the phone without any restraints.

The HTC Touch Phone’s camera is adecuate, and I say this because I have a digital camera and I did not purchase a phone simply to take picture. But overall, it performs well, and the fact that I can take panoramic pictures and stich them together is really something I did not expect from this phone. The sports setting which takes 5 shots in a row is extremely useful if you’re dealing with kids. The browser is nothing fancy to brag, but I acquired a software to seach and view videos on the web (mostly youtube), and I am able to save, bookmark, etc. Most popular websites are now joining the mobile web requirenments, enough said on that.

The HTC Touch Phone is bluetooth, and the media player actually plays the music much louder than my previous phone through my bluetooth motorola HT820 stereo headset. The sync fuction is extremely easy to set up. The touch screen feature is really nice, specially since you can write on the screen with the stylus and the software will type the words for you; this alone speeds up your typing speed if in IM or perhaps typing a memo on the mobile microsoft word software.

Email accounts are easyly set up (yahoo, hotmail, gmail, work email, school, etc) I have them all, and they are sync periodically as I set them.. again this is soo easy once you get the hang of it. Google maps is quite nice, if you’re upgrading from a regular phone to a smartphone. The built in memory on the HTC Touch Phone is adecuate, but you can expand it with a micro sd card (up to 4GB), and I recommend you do this and set up the phone to use only that memory (install all the softwares that did not come with the phone on the memory card instead of the device).

—– By Josue Chavez

HTC Touch Phone Features:

• Innovative TouchFLO touchscreen navigation with 3D cube interface; powered by Windows Mobile 6 operating system
• Access Sprint Mobile Broadband Network via EV-DO connectivity; video entertainment via Sprint TV
• 2-megapixel camera with video capture; MicroSD expansion; Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR connectivity with music streaming
• Up to 4 hours of talk time, up to 240 hours (10 days) of standby time; measures 4 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches (WxHxD)
• Includes: Li-Ion Battery, AC Travel Charger

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