HTC Touch HD
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Touch HD - The first word shows that the device belongs to the Touch series, known for its optimized interface in order to be finger-friendly & HD stands for- High-definition, i.e. high resolution images/videos. This is the key feature for this touchscreen handset. The large 3.8” display has a WVGA resolution of 480x800 pixels.
Apart from the screen itself the front of the phone has the printed HTC logo at the left, an ear piece grill to the right of it and the secondary VGA video call camera to the far right. At the bottom of the front there are (from left to right) the call end, home, back and call start buttons which are also touchscreen flush. On the left hand side of the phone there is nothing except a very long volume rocker button.
HTC clearly believes in making the most of what it's got. Its brand new Touch HD has a near identical core specification to both of its previous offerings - the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro . The processor is the same (a Qualcomm 528MHz unit) and the range of features is very similar - you get HSDPA as expected, assisted GPS, an accelerometer that rotates the screen when you turn the phone around in your hand, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and an FM radio. The RAM and ROM are the same as the Touch Pro at 288MB and 512MB respectively.
With the design of the Touch HD HTC has achieved something no Windows Mobile phone maker has so far - it has made it usable. Until now, enthusiasm in the PC Pro office for WM phones has been, to say the least, lukewarm. HTC's TouchFLO 3D interface didn't do much to change that opinion when the Diamond launched, and although the Touch Pro was an improvement .
Browsing the internet is particularly good: though zooming in and out is easy thanks to Opera Mobile 9.5's double tap zoom, plus the addition of a new zoom bar along the bottom of the screen, the key advantage of the screen is that you can read headlines and other text while zoomed right out. Plus, you can squeeze in far more email and map data, and working with Excel documents takes on another dimension.
Other thoughtful touches include a 3.5mm headphone socket - at last an HTC phone that allows you to use your own headphones - and a high-resolution five-megapixel camera that takes halfway decent pictures and video. There's no flash, however, so it's not much use indoors. Plus, battery life is very impressive.
Main Features of HTC Touch HD:
- 3.8" 65000 color WVGA display.
- Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS.
- TouchFLO 3D Home screen and gesture controls.
- Wi-Fi and built-in GPS receiver.
- Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 Mhz CPU and 288 MB DDR SDRAM.
- Dedicated graphics chip (64MB RAM reserved for graphics).
- Quad-band GSM and dual-band HSDPA support.
- 5 MP auto focus camera with nice image quality.
- Accelerometer sensor.
- Proximity sensor to automatically turn the screen off during calls.
- Touch sensitive keys with vibration feedback.
- Stereo FM radio with RDS.
- Active magnetic stylus.
- MS Office Mobile document editor
- Excellent Opera 9.5 web browser