HTC Touch Pro review: Heavyweight pro
Gsmarena have posted their review of the HTC Touch Pro. Here are the key features, main disadvantages and final conclusion.
Key features:
•2.8" 65K-color touchscreen VGA display
•Five row full QWERTY slide-out keyboard of brilliant ergonomics
•TouchFLO 3D Home screen and gesture controls
•Wi-Fi
•Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 Mhz CPU and 288 MB DDR SDRAM
•Dedicated graphics chip (64MB RAM reserved for graphics)
•HSDPA 7.2Mbps
•Built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS
•microSD memory expansion
•Stereo FM radio with RDS
•3.15 MP auto focus camera
•Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
•Active magnetic stylus
•Touch-sensitive scroll wheel
•Standard miniUSB port and Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
•TV out
•Teeter game aboard
•Cool YouTube client
•Excellent video playback performance
•MS Office Mobile document editor
•Opera 9.5 web browser
Main disadvantages:
•Rather bulky and heavy
•Fingerprint-prone front panel
•Average sunlight legibility
•No standard 3.5mm audio jack
•Back panel design hurts usability
•Limited scroll wheel usage
•No adequate storage memory out of the box
At the end of this review, we're back where we left off. The Touch Pro and the Diamond just go together. In the face of Touch Pro, the Diamond has lost some of its one-of-a-kind design-driven edge and gained elsewhere (beside the waistline). It's not the most obvious QWERTY add-on only: the TV-out port, better battery and microSD card slot sound just as sweet. It's not as simple as "we liked the Diamond, so we like the Touch Pro even better". It just so seems the Touch Pro comes closer to the definitive PocketPC concept.
Anyway, it's time to draw the line and, from what our experience shows, the Touch Pro quite deserves every penny you spend on it. The price tag is hefty but it's worth noting that HTC Touch Pro costs less than the TyTN II used to upon release. There is no better device on the market in this class (yet) and if this is the kind of phone you are after - just go for it.
The good news for all the rest is that there's choice. The HTC Touch Diamond and the Samsung Omnia make pretty good keyboard-less alternatives.
Needless to say, the Touch Pro is still to receive its trial by fire. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 will also have its say on the market success of the Pro. Now, that's good news for all of us: an exciting clash awaits.
Key features:
•2.8" 65K-color touchscreen VGA display
•Five row full QWERTY slide-out keyboard of brilliant ergonomics
•TouchFLO 3D Home screen and gesture controls
•Wi-Fi
•Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 Mhz CPU and 288 MB DDR SDRAM
•Dedicated graphics chip (64MB RAM reserved for graphics)
•HSDPA 7.2Mbps
•Built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS
•microSD memory expansion
•Stereo FM radio with RDS
•3.15 MP auto focus camera
•Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
•Active magnetic stylus
•Touch-sensitive scroll wheel
•Standard miniUSB port and Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
•TV out
•Teeter game aboard
•Cool YouTube client
•Excellent video playback performance
•MS Office Mobile document editor
•Opera 9.5 web browser
Main disadvantages:
•Rather bulky and heavy
•Fingerprint-prone front panel
•Average sunlight legibility
•No standard 3.5mm audio jack
•Back panel design hurts usability
•Limited scroll wheel usage
•No adequate storage memory out of the box
At the end of this review, we're back where we left off. The Touch Pro and the Diamond just go together. In the face of Touch Pro, the Diamond has lost some of its one-of-a-kind design-driven edge and gained elsewhere (beside the waistline). It's not the most obvious QWERTY add-on only: the TV-out port, better battery and microSD card slot sound just as sweet. It's not as simple as "we liked the Diamond, so we like the Touch Pro even better". It just so seems the Touch Pro comes closer to the definitive PocketPC concept.
Anyway, it's time to draw the line and, from what our experience shows, the Touch Pro quite deserves every penny you spend on it. The price tag is hefty but it's worth noting that HTC Touch Pro costs less than the TyTN II used to upon release. There is no better device on the market in this class (yet) and if this is the kind of phone you are after - just go for it.
The good news for all the rest is that there's choice. The HTC Touch Diamond and the Samsung Omnia make pretty good keyboard-less alternatives.
Needless to say, the Touch Pro is still to receive its trial by fire. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 will also have its say on the market success of the Pro. Now, that's good news for all of us: an exciting clash awaits.
Posts
No comments: