Display & Audio
The display on the Touch is great but cannot be compared to that of the
iPhone. The display is a TFT touch-screen which displays 65k colors; whereas, the touch screen on the iPhone is a lot more advanced and easier to navigate with. The Touch does not have proximity sensors like the iPhone and is not as bright either. A device which is completely touch-based needs to have an excellent screen and although the iPhone’s is better, the Touch is still sufficient. The HTC Touch comes with a screen protector in the box, I was really impressed with the quality and how easy it sticks on the display with no air bubbles. I hope in all future devices a screen protector is also included; it’s not a big deal, but it makes the customers happy.
The Touch is great for listening to music; however, the headphone jack is not 3.5 mm but the dreaded mini USB port. I have to admit that having only one port does look much nicer, but being unable to use your own headphones or plug it into a speaker is disappointing; needless to say the headphones that are included with the phone are great. The headphones are black in color and have a built in mic, talk/end button and a volume control. A new headphone remote control is also now available for all the new HTC phones which have a mini USB port for audio. Although, the headphone remote is amazing, the price may prevent people from buying it: they come in black and white and cost around $50. With these headphones, you can use any of your favorite headphones due to the 3.5mm headphone jack converter.
The phone has two programs built in for listening to music; Windows Media Player and HTC’s Audio Manager. For normal day to day use with headphones, I use Audio manager due to the iPod-like interface. With audio manager you can create play-lists, arrange songs by title, album, artist and more. One aspect of the audio manager I liked a lot was the ability to trim your favorite songs in order to use them for ring tones.
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