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- The HTC Touch boasts an innovative touch screen and sleek interface, but the lack of a sizable keyboard really limits the usability of this device. And despite the beautiful hardware, the Windows Mobile smart phone lags in performance and needs a bit more tweaking before we're ready to snatch one up.
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CNET editors' review
HTC Touch (Unlocked) price range: $212.94
- Reviewed by: Bonnie Cha
- Edited by: Kent German
- Reviewed on: 06/07/2007
- Updated on:06/18/2007
The good: The compact HTC Touch features an advanced touch screen that lets you operate the smart phone with your fingertips. The Windows Mobile 6 smart phone also has an updated interface, integrated Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and a 2-megapixel camera.
The bad: The Touch's tiny onscreen keyboard makes it a pain to enter any text, and the TouchFLO feature doesn't work in landscape mode. The SIM card and microSD slots are hard to access. Also, speakerphone quality was poor, and the device can be sluggish at times.
The bottom line: The HTC Touch boasts an innovative touch screen and sleek interface, but the lack of a sizable keyboard really limits the usability of this device. And despite the beautiful hardware, the Windows Mobile smart phone lags in performance and needs a bit more tweaking before we're ready to snatch one up.
HTC, the company behind many of today's most popular Windows Mobile smart phones, is known for offering a broad range of devices. It has done petite, thin, and powerful, and it's even gone above and beyond traditional smart phones, as we saw at CTIA 2007 with the introduction of the HTC Shift and HTC Advantage. And now, the company has once again pushed the limits of design with its latest project: the HTC Touch.
Under the hood, the Touch isn't that different from its HTC and Windows Mobile 6 sibling, the T-Mobile Wing. Yet the HTC Touch makes its mark by offering TouchFLO, a brand-new user interface that allows you to operate the smart phone just by swiping your finger on the device's touch screen. It's innovative and cool, but it's also flawed. Our main concern is the lack of a sizable keyboard, which is a huge drawback for messaging fanatics, and it even slows down simple tasks such as entering new contacts.
HTC is hoping to capture a broader consumer audience with the Touch--someone who is thinking of making the leap from a cell phone to a smart phone--and it's certainly a step in the right direction. It's fun to use, so we didn't feel like we were using a corporate-geared device. We also absolutely welcome the innovation in technology and design, as it opens up the doors to smarter and cooler phones. That said, we're not sure the HTC Touch is quite ready for mass consumption yet. There are some niggling design quirks, and performance can sometimes be sluggish. But mostly, if the company can find a better solution for text input (perhaps by the time it's finally released in the States?), then the HTC Touch could certainly catch on. Bottom line: it's a good first effort, but we'd hold off for now.
Finally, we'd be remiss not to mention the Apple iPhone here. With its touch screen capability, there's a natural inclination to compare the two. In fact, the Touch has already solicited a few, "Oh, so it's like the iPhone?" responses from casual observers. Will it rival the iPhone? We'll know in just a couple of weeks.
The HTC Touch is on sale now in the United Kingdom and will ship in the rest of Europe and Asia later this month. U.S. availability is expected during the second half of the year. No official word on pricing or carrier, but we'll keep you updated with any news and will re-evaluate the device once the we get the U.S. version of the HTC Touch.
Design
The HTC Touch is unlike any other smart phone the company has produced in a number of ways. Obviously, the TouchFlo interface is the biggest story, but the Touch also is the smallest touch screen smart phone that we've seen in recent memory. The handset measures a petite 3.9 inches long by 2.8 inches wide by 0.5 inch tall and weighs just 3.98 ounces, fitting nicely in the palm of your hand and easily slipping into a bag or pants pocket. Compare that to the bulky Palm Treo 755p (4 inches by 2.3 inches by 0.8 inch; 5.6 ounces) or Cingular 8525 (4.4 inches by 2.2 inches by 0.8 inch; 6.2 ounces). In addition, the device features a soft-touch finish (a la T-Mobile Dash), to give the device a nice, rubberlike texture that makes the phone easy to grip.
Moving on to the touch screen. First off, the screen itself measures 2.8 inches diagonally and displays 65,536 colors at a 240x320 pixel resolution. That's all pretty standard, but what sets the screen apart from other smart phones is the TouchFLO technology behind it. Basically, it allows you to operate certain portions of the smart phone with a series of finger swipes or taps. To complement this functionality, HTC also made some interface and menu changes so you can more easily access your messages, applications, and other pertinent information.
Starting with the home screen, if you've used Windows Mobile devices before, you'll notice a new look and feel right away. On top of the shortcuts to your contacts and calendar, you now have one-touch access to your messages, call list, frequently used applications, and even weather. Frankly, it reminds us of the Spb menu interface we saw on the Pharos GPS Phone 600e, and whether it's a copycat or not, we appreciate the convenience of this new interface. From there, you then can dig deeper into the smart phone by dragging your thumb from the bottom of the screen (around the HTC logo) to the top. That will take you to a new screen where you can cycle through a 3D interface of three menu choices: Applications, Contacts, and Media by swiping your finger left to right or vice versa. Launching a program only requires a tap on the appropriate icon. To get back to the home page, just sweep from the top to the bottom of the display.
The screen is also smart enough to know the difference between a tap and finger sweep, which comes in handy for scrolling through e-mails and Web pages. When checking out a Web site, a quick flick up or down will tell the Touch to automatically scroll through the page. You can then stop the action by tapping the screen. You can do this with your Office documents, e-mails, and more--all very cool.
Overall, it only took us a few minutes to get a good understanding of those commands, but we needed more time to learn how the touch screen works once you're in an application. For example, to exit out of a Word document, our natural inclination was to swipe the screen downward, similar to what's needed to get back to the home page. But that's not the case. Rather, you press the X or OK box at the top right of the screen, or you can drag your finger upward to get back to the 3D menu. Oh, another thing we noticed: the TouchFLO technology doesn't seem to work when you switch from portrait to landscape mode--oops.
However, our biggest beef with the HTC is that there's no easy way to enter text. Given the compact design, a full QWERTY keyboard is clearly out, but you're reduced to using a tiny virtual keyboard that absolutely requires the use of a stylus. I have pretty small hands and couldn't accurately type messages with my fingertips. Having nails may help, but the stylus is your best bet. It's true that the HTC Touch isn't meant to be a messaging machine for the power business user, but pecking out notes with the little stylus and onscreen keyboard just doesn't sound appealing or efficient. We really hope this is something HTC will reconsider or tweak in the future--perhaps before the device arrives in the States. On the bright side, the virtual dialpad for making phone calls is spacious and usable.
You do get some tactile controls on the HTC Touch. Below the display, you get tiny Talk and End buttons and a five-way navigation toggle. Along the right side, you'll find a camera activation key and the SIM card and microSD slots, which are protected by an attached cover. At first, we were pretty excited that you could side load your SIM card and the expandable media until we tried to access the slots. The flap is incredibly hard to open, and we tried using our nail, the stylus, and other sharp objects to crack it open. In the end, the easiest way to access these slots is to take off the back cover and then jimmy it open. But really, that kind of defeats the purpose of having it on the side, don't you think?
There's a volume rocker on the left side, a mini USB port and lanyard loop along the bottom edge, and a power button at the top. And finally, the phone's speaker and camera lens and self-portrait mirror are located on the back. The HTC Touch comes sleekly packaged with an AC adapter, a wired stereo headset, a microSD card, a USB cable, a protective pouch, a cell phone dongle, and reference material. Check out our cell phone accessories page to learn how you can further personalize your device.
Features
Aside from the new interface, the HTC Touch doesn't offer anything revolutionary in the features department. At its core, the HTC Touch is still a Windows Mobile smart phone, running the latest Windows Mobile 6 Professional Edition. (You can learn more about the operating system here.) We won't touch on all the details; instead we'll just highlight some of the bigger items and then delve into finite details when the U.S. model finally is launched later this year.
At this point, it's unclear whether the U.S. version of the Touch will be CDMA or GSM, but the new U.K. model is a tri-band GSM handset and offers a speakerphone, smart dialing, voice commands and dialing, and text and multimedia messaging. The address book is only limited by the available memory, and as always, the SIM card holds an additional 250 contacts. You can store up to 12 numbers for a single entry, as well as home and work addresses, e-mail, IM screen name, birthday, spouse's name, and more. For caller ID purposes, you can pair a contact with a photo, a caller group, or one of 20 polyphonic ringtones.
Wireless options on the HTC Touch include Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0. Unfortunately, there's no 3G support, so you're left to surf the Web via EDGE speeds or by hopping onto a hot spot. The Touch was able to find and connect to our test access point immediately, and we were surfing the Web in a matter of minutes. As for Bluetooth, the smart phone supports wireless headsets, hands-free kits, object exchange, file sharing, and A2DP for stereo Bluetooth headsets.
Finally, the HTC Touch is equipped with a 2-megapixel camera with 8x zoom and video-recording capabilities. The options are pretty standard for a camera phone. You have your choice of five resolutions and four quality settings. There's no flash, you do get white balance settings, including one for night shots, and various image effects. There's also a self timer, a time stamp option, a picture counter, and a flicker adjustment, among other things. For video, the Touch can capture clips with or without sound in MPEG4, Motion JPEG, or H.263 format. There are only two resolution choices, but you get the same white balance and color effect settings from the still camera.
Picture quality was OK. Overall, objects had good definition, and colors were mostly bright. However, there was some blurring in the middle and a hint of a yellow overtone. We also found that you had to hold the phone really still to get a decent shot. Video quality was subpar, as clips look extra pixelated.
Performance
We tested the tri-band (GSM 900/1800/1900; GPRS/EDGE) HTC Touch in San Francisco using Cingular/AT&T service, and call quality was OK. We could hear a slight background hiss when we talked to friends; not enough to prevent us from having a conversation or interacting with our bank's voice response system, but enough to be annoying. On the other hand, our callers reported excellent sound with crisp audio and little to no interference. Unfortunately, we didn't get great results from the speakerphone; voices sounded far away and echoed on both ends of the conversations. We were able to pair the Touch with the Logitech Mobile Traveller Bluetooth headset with no problems.
Armed with a 201MHz TI OMAP850 processor and 128MB ROM/64MB RAM, general operation was a tad slow. With about 12MB of free program memory, there was often a few-second delay when opening applications. At first we thought our device just didn't register our touch commands, but it was really a performance issue. Launching any of the multimedia functions really did a number on the Touch, as the screen sometimes froze midway between the music player and menu screen. This happened on a number of occasions, and got to be quite frustrating. Listening to music through the phone's speakers isn't bad. There's plenty of volume, but it's lacking in bass, and unfortunately, you don't get much of a boost with the included pair of earbuds. Video clips were watchable in short spurts.
The HTC Touch's battery is rated for 5 hours talk time and up to 8.3 days of standby time. In our battery tests, we were able to get 6 hours of talk time on a single charge.
User reviews
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not a review
by mindanalog on June 14, 2007
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It seems like everyone's beef with this thing is its lousy data entry. People (bonnie cha, cha, cha) should know that there are 3rd party ...Summary: Just a comment -
It seems like everyone's beef with this thing is its lousy data entry. People (bonnie cha, cha, cha) should know that there are 3rd party data entry apps that reconcile this issue.
For $10 you can get something like SPB Full Screen Keyboard, which as the name implies is a FULL SCREEN KEYBOARD. The keyboard is in landscape, providing much more space than the iphone's keyboard. The area of the 'keys' are like 4 or 5 times the size of the Treo's and Black Berry's keys.
I've got something similar for my palm and data entry is a breeze, no more graffiti.28 out of 30 users found this user opinion helpful.
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As close to the perfect PDA phone that I've found so far
by sulayman on August 6, 2007
Pros: Compact size, sharp screen, great design
Cons: Stylus doesn't telescope, more buttons would've been nice, hard screen, 200mhz
Summary: Just got it today and so far I love it. The only major "gripe" CNET has with it is exactly what I love about it -- the lack of a ...
Summary: Just got it today and so far I love it. The only major "gripe" CNET has with it is exactly what I love about it -- the lack of a slide-out keyboard. I hate the bulk they add, especially as they're usually too cramped for me to use. Since I use handwriting recognition for all my input anyway, the screen-only text input is actually a bonus.
I upgraded to this from the O2 XDA Atom and it was so worth it. The screen is sharp and bright, and the phone is TINY. It's an awesome compact size that fits perfectly in my hand.
My only issues with the phone are that the stylus doesn't telescope, so it's pretty small in my hand. Hopefully they'll make some telescoping stylii in the not-too-distant future. Also, since the screen was designed for being pushed, poked and prodded, it's a harder plastic and as such requires a little more pressure when using the stylus than I'm used to. The 200mhz cpu is also going to require a little getting used to, coming from a much-faster phone. But while a little sluggish at times, it's still more than zippy enough for my needs.
Finally, there's all of one configurable button -- the camera button. I'm used to phones with four or five readily-accessible buttons that I can map. Having one is a bit of a downer.
Those are all very minor gripes, though. All in all it's a fantastic phone and it combines pretty much all the key features I look for in a pda phone -- no keyboard, small, pretty, fits nicely in my pocket, etc.. Defintely worth the money.12 out of 12 users found this user opinion helpful.
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The best phone I have ever used!
by Carlos Kirkconnell on July 25, 2007
Pros: Incredibly small and thin, touch flo technology is very cool, comes with Windows Mobile 6.
Cons: None... but it I would love to see an AM/FM radio
Summary: If you're used to a phone that doesn't have a physical keyboard and you want to use windows mobile, then this is your best option. CNet's editor ...
Summary: If you're used to a phone that doesn't have a physical keyboard and you want to use windows mobile, then this is your best option. CNet's editor is comparing it an iphone... that's nonsence since it costs around $300 bucks less (unlocked). Obviously the technology of the iphone is much better, and obviously you will have a much better keyboard on the iphone, but giving it a 6, because of that, is extremely unfair. This is the best windows mobile phone in the market right now. If you call yourself a "huge texter" and you like to carry an enormous block (hmm... treo) then this is not the phone for you. If you want a small phone, with all the capabilities of a PDA then this is your best choice.
12 out of 14 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Great Phone
by rafaelque on September 2, 2007
Pros: Solid piece of hardware, gorgeous, works great with Mobile 6
Cons: Speaker could use a boost
Summary: I think this phone was doomed for Bonnie Cha she's she's adminitedly a heavy texter. For light texting and email this phone is fine. Third party software can ...
Summary: I think this phone was doomed for Bonnie Cha she's she's adminitedly a heavy texter. For light texting and email this phone is fine. Third party software can give you a full screen keyboard which would make this a non issue for most people. Cnet should have mentioned this but their reviews tend to be somewhat misleading and at least incomplete for most stuff anyway. Best way to get a good idea about a product on the CNET site is to read the user reviews since they are the ones that actually live in the real world.
10 out of 11 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Brilliant SmartPhone
by urr_quasdim on August 6, 2007
Pros: Small & light, excellent call quality, user-friendly UI, sharp display, decent battery life, high quality construction, Wi-Fi, decent camera
Cons: Sometimes a bit sluggish, no 3G, tri-band
Summary: I sometimes wonder about CNET's judgment in their reviews. If iPhone got an 8.0 with spotty call quality whereas the Touch scored a piddly 6.3 with excellent ...
Summary: I sometimes wonder about CNET's judgment in their reviews. If iPhone got an 8.0 with spotty call quality whereas the Touch scored a piddly 6.3 with excellent call quality, then something just doesn't add up - after all, these are PHONES first and foremost. Yes, WM 6 still provides a small keyboard but if you really hate using the stylus, you have a choice of several full-screen virtual keyboards from the Web. I find this a minor inconvenience at most. CNET also complains about difficulty inserting the SIM and memory cards. I am no wizard but I found it quite easy to accomplish - not any harder than in other phones. I also found the sluggishness issue not to be serious, and if one stops unused applications then the whole issue is mute. The lack of 3G (like in iPhone) is regrettable yet I found EDGE to be decent and Wi-Fi at least partially compensates for 3G's absence. My phone is the Asian one, lacking the 850 MHz band, but it works just fine with T-Mobile and will work in most of the world with its 3 bands.
This little phone, with its rubbery outer finish, is superbly constructed, has a brilliant display, WORKS GREAT AS A PHONE, WM 6 Professional has a lot to offer, the TouchFLO feature adds much strength to the UI, battery life is quite decent and, finally, the camera performs well in both still and video modes.8 out of 8 users found this user opinion helpful.
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It is the best Phone/Smartphone I have ever owned
by cellphonereport on August 1, 2007
Pros: Well, just about everything. The innovation, the compact size, the clean style, the functionality, everything.
Cons: While the small virtual keyboard is not going to be easy for some to adjust too. With the handwriting recognition and the stylus it is only a minor issue.
Summary: Not sure why CNET gave it the overall rating it did as I am know questioning how well they actually rate these products. This is by far the best Smartphone ...
Summary: Not sure why CNET gave it the overall rating it did as I am know questioning how well they actually rate these products. This is by far the best Smartphone device out there and very innovative. While I looked at the iPhone, the HTC Touch is by far the better device. If any of you are looking at purchasing the device, I HIGHLY recommend you do and that you take the user reviews into consideration as opposed to the CNET review.
5 out of 5 users found this user opinion helpful.
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The Perfect PDA Phone so far!
by jasontansh on July 9, 2007
Pros: Latest WM6 Professional, smallest PDA phone & cool look. Fast search functions for contacts.
Cons: Ideal to have larger internal memory.
Summary: I owned O2 mini, O2 Atom, HP 6818 & Dopod M700 and I have been dissatisfied with all of them until I bought the HTC Touch. In fact, I looked ...
Summary: I owned O2 mini, O2 Atom, HP 6818 & Dopod M700 and I have been dissatisfied with all of them until I bought the HTC Touch. In fact, I looked at all available current models in the market before buying the Touch and none of them meet my crteria. The most important feature to me is the ability to store hugh contact list (4,000 records) plus another 3,000 calendar items plus other data such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents plus video files and music files. I must say the HTC Touch is the fastest so far esp when I search for names to call or to sms. Other than that, I like the cool modern look and the small size and light weight. Only complaint would be the lack of a belt pouch like the Dopod M700 (which I am using for the Touch). It would be ideal if HTC can increase the internal memory of both RAM & ROM as well as the processor speed. So - HTC, hope you are reading this to work on your next model.
5 out of 5 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Great PDA phone- would like 3G
by Juliefey on July 1, 2007
Pros: Tiny!!! Quality, responsive, great camera/video, non slip case
Cons: No 3G, no voice dialing
Summary: My (recently stolen) other phone was the hp Messenger. I really liked being able to use it like a mini-computer but the size/weight and smooth plastic case were a ...
Summary: My (recently stolen) other phone was the hp Messenger. I really liked being able to use it like a mini-computer but the size/weight and smooth plastic case were a problem. (This sounds minor, but the smooth plastic case was difficult to hold on to in the humidity and I dropped it several times... once onto marble a story up- to it's credit other than a cracked screen (~200 MYR, US$50) it was fine. The HTC touch is almost everything I would want in a pda phone.
First the bads- no 3G. Annoying for a new model but Edge is fast enough for regular surfing. Wi-fi is also getting so common it's not really an issue and I didn't think the it wore down my battery any more than any other application (or even just the blue tooth on my hp). Second there is no voice dialing. As am American (living in Asia) I am in the car quite a bit so miss it but it's not on 99% of the phones over here anyway. It might be on the US version.
I would also like to address the complaints I see about this phone- namely the lack of keyboard, 'touch' working in landscape and the speaker volume. First off, the lack of keyboard/small onscreen keyboard. This phone is really tiny- it would be impossible to keep the big screen AND have a keyboard, adding a pull out key board would bulk it up too much. I don't think the online keyboard is meant to be used as a 'regular' keyboard either. I can type (with my nails)- but why? That's what the transcriber is for. Using the stylus I write on the screen and it types it out. Not letters (there is that option) but whole sentences. It's pretty accurate and about perfect, especially if you practice a bit and input your personal style. I do use the keyboard for passwords, number strings, etc. Anyone buying this should keep that in mind- it's not for someone who is insistant on a keyboard. I don't know what the iphone people are going to do- writing is much easier than typing on a screen and there is no stylus. The other is the speaker. It's okay for music and video but do wish it were louder, you certainly can't sit across a desk and have a phone conversation, maybe it's because the speaker is on the back. Pda speakers in general don't have a good track record and my hp was especially terrible. This is at least 2x as loud and is fine for car navigation. The call quality is clear and loud loud used as a regular phone, I have never gotten the hiss this reviewer spoke of. I also use my blue tooth head set all the time. (no I'm not walking around like the secret service- it's just what I reach for when the phone rings.) The range is good, and I think most pda people will probably be moving that way anyhow. (I have the little Motorola H700 which you open to answer and uses the same charger.) The 'touch' feature does work in landscape, it just seems to take about a half second longer. Don't know why.
The goods- The size, this is tiny and flat. Not alot bigger than a credit card (but longer and about as thick as a pen). You can put it anywhere and it disappears. It's also very light for a pda phone- for a phone in general. The case is a matte black almost rubberized plastic, it doesn't fingerprint and stays in your hand easily. FYI the green model I was told is a smooth pearl plastic- I haven't seen it in person. The processor is fast enough and does graphics fine. It also tells you when you have too many applications (usually graphic) open- easy to click off from the process manager on the top bar. The battery life isn't drained by the bluetooth like on most other phones and the hp. Nor does the wi-fi drain it as much as I expected. The battery should be bigger but since the touch is efficient you break even. I still have to plug it in every night but it's also new, so once I'm not constantly playing with it, maybe it will last longer anyway. I'm personally holding out for an extra capacity battery to appear in the next 6 months. The touch part is great- especially switching applications and moving around the screen. The interface is elegant and simple- not gimmicky. All the applications are literally at your fingertips. Money well spent. I did consider the iphone but the lack of a video camera, blue tooth, and stylus killed it for me. With the 1GB (it can handle higher as well) mini scan disc- it can do just as well as a mp3 player- at least for me and I can listen on my BLUETOOTH head phones.
I would highly recommend this phone to anyone who uses a pda with the exception of those who just can't give up their keyboard. But with tablet PCs coming up- I think it's only a matter of time until you'll need to consider a transcriber anyway. (Just for the record- I would much rather type on my computer than write free hand, but the transcriber is a good alternative when you want small and fast.)Updated
After having it for a few weeks I found it does have Voice Dialing... you set it with the Voice Recorder. A feature I don't normally use and skipped over in the manual. I would have thought voice dialing would have been mentioned in the phone section.
I have also had several people clarify that the complaint about "touch" not working in landscape refers not to the touch screen but rather specifically to the Touch Menus. No the Touch menus don't work in landscape mode- but yes, the touch screen (including paning around) does.
Still love it after constant usage... and the tiny size is great!Updated
After having it for a few weeks I found it does have Voice Dialing... you set it with the Voice Recorder. A feature I don't normally use and skipped over in the manual. I would have thought voice dialing would have been mentioned in the phone section.
I have also had several people clarify that the complaint about "touch" not working in landscape refers not to the touch screen but rather specifically to the Touch Menus. No the Touch menus don't work in landscape mode- but yes, the touch screen (including panning around) does.
Still love it after constant usage... and the tiny size is great!Updated
The really small ones... which is a pain to get in and out- what were they thinking with this set up???
Also just to clarify- the iphone has a kind of hobbled bluetooth. You can only use it for single ear phone pieces... not stereo-to listen to music, not to send or recieve data/music/notes/im's, not on any other devices... which basically negates the reasons for having bluetooth. I think the 2nd or 3rd generation phone will be worthy of all the hype this one has gotten- the China release is already strongly rumored (company 'unofficial' news releases) set to be smaller, faster and have most of the basic missing features.5 out of 5 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Great phone
by Slamaxe on August 28, 2007
Pros: small, great call quality, great range, awesome utility
Cons: Battery life a little short
Summary: Not sure what the folks at CNET were smoking when they wrote the review but... I've had my HTC touch for two months and of all the phones I'...
Summary: Not sure what the folks at CNET were smoking when they wrote the review but... I've had my HTC touch for two months and of all the phones I've had this is clearly the best. The phone is most likely a quadband as it works well in 850mhz areas with a full set of bars. Some sites on the Net explain why they would market a quadband as a triband. At any rate I've used this thing the length and breadth of America (on Cingular/ATT) in our motorhome and it has never failed to perform in an outstanding way.
It is roughly the size of my Motorola Razor and is tough as can be. It is not an Iphone and isn't designed to work as one. It is a hard working tool for a professional, not a gadget tied to a carrier and needing a factory visit for a battery change. I carry a spare battery when overseas and just switch out sims to use the local carriers. It's better than the Iphone.
It looks great and works great. Get one, you'll be delighted.4 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.
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A Good White Collar PDA 1st, ,Phone 2nd
by lovecoupeflyer on January 31, 2008
Pros: Windows Mobile system
Cons: Quiet Std Ringers, Weak speaker requires ear placement.
Summary: Upgraded from my well used Sanyo flip phone thinking the Touch is the cats meow. While i still think it is a tops unit and i didn't have problems ...
Summary: Upgraded from my well used Sanyo flip phone thinking the Touch is the cats meow. While i still think it is a tops unit and i didn't have problems with it in the week i tried it, this type of phone was not for me. A flip phone can be cradled on your shoulder to free both hands, pda phones just cant be held like this. The form factor requires you have the speaker close to the ear, and the ergonomics take a concerted effort to keep it there. The screen is great, sharp and bright. Business apps are useful. If you need to use this in a noisy enviro like I do, then hearing the ringer is hard. With the screen off, the tiny LED for power and notifications is small enought that you have to be on top of the phone to see them. YOu have to power up the screen if you need to see what you have been missing. The guys at the store were stunned when i brought it back. But this was just the wrong phone for me. I do applaud Sprint for the return allowance. I'm back to a Sanyo 7050 flip phone, and it fits my need to a tee. I would get one again, when i know it will work in my enviroment. I did try the TV, not bad for a mobile device! Not perfect, but certrainly useable. If you are looking for a PDA phone, non IPHONE type, check it out. My uses were more phone based than office suite based. YOur needs will probaby be different.
3 out of 3 users found this user opinion helpful.
Specifications
- Manufacturer: HTC
- Part number: HTC Touch
- Bottom Line: The HTC Touch boasts an innovative touch screen and sleek interface, but the lack of a sizable keyboard really limits the usability of this device. And despite the beautiful hardware, the Windows Mobile smart phone lags in performance and needs a bit more tweaking before we're ready to snatch one up.
General
- Product Type Smartphone With digital camera
- Service Provider Unlocked
- Width 2.3 in
- Depth 0.5 in
- Height 3.9 in
- Weight 0.3 lbs
Cellular
- Technology GSM
- Band GSM 900/1800/1900
- Caller ID Yes
- Wireless Interface WiFi
- Additional Features 1 GB microSD memory card
Communicator Features
- Operating System Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0
Messaging & Data Services
- Short Messaging Service (SMS) Yes
- Internet Browser Yes
- Messaging / Data Features Text messages
Battery
- Talk Time Up to 300 min
Product series
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Manufacturer: HTC
Specs: GSM 900/1800/1900, Up to 300 min, With digital camera, 0.3 lbs
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Manufacturer: HTC
Specs: WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 900/1800/1900, Up to 300 min, 4.2 oz
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Manufacturer: HTC
Specs: GSM 900/1800/1900 (Tri-Band), Up to 240 min, 4 oz
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Manufacturer: HTC
Specs: WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 900/1800/1900, Up to 330 min, 3.9 oz
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Manufacturer: HTC
Specs: WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900, Up to 420 min, 4.6 oz
Manufacturer info
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- Website: http://www.htc.com/
- Address:
13920 SE Eastgate Way, Bellevue, WA 98005 - Phone: (425) 861-9174
- Email: info@htcamerica.net
- Fax: (425) 861-1715
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