Features
The HTC Touch has Windows Mobile 6 Professional, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi, expandable memory, 200 MHz processor and a 2 mega pixel camera.
The Touch comes with Windows Mobile 6 professional with new TouchFLO technology. HTC has designed the TouchFLO to contend with the iPhone. The TouchFLO’s main attraction is the “Cube”. To activate the Cube you simply swipe your finger vertically starting from the bottom of the screen. This motion brings up a “cube” which gives you shortcuts for various options. The first side has three tabs; Music, photos and videos. The second side has 6 tabs; email, sms/mms, internet explorer, tasks, comm. manager and calendar. Finally, the third tab has space for 9 of your contacts. You can also store there picture on this screen. At the bottom there is four buttons for calling, call history, contacts and remove contact.
Overall, the touch cube works great but once you press a tab it opens the application in the standard Windows OS where you’re forced to use a stylus. Other TouchFLO features include the iPhone like finger scrolling. You can scroll through contacts, web browser and file explorer which is very similar to the iPhone.
The Touch has WiFi b/g and works very well. Like other Windows phones it is very easy to connect to a nearby WiFi signal. All you have to do is activate WiFi from the Comm Manager and if there is a nearby wireless signal a notification will pop up displaying the various signals. All you have to do is click, connect and wait a couple of seconds. Like other Windows phones with WiFi, you can select your connection preference. You can either select best performance or best battery or in between.
The Touch supports Micro SDHC expandable memory. The phone comes with a 1GB memory card and can support up to 4GB; there’s also been speculation of an 8GB micro SDHC coming later this year.
The Touch has an excellent 2 mega pixel camera but lacks a built-in flash. The camera application is the same as before but is customized so you are able to change the settings with your finger. For the camera application you have the following options:
- Picture Quality: Superfine, Fine, Normal and basic
- White balance: Auto, Daylight, Night, Incandescent and fluorescent
- Overlays: Grayscale. Sepia, Cool, Negative
- Exposure Measurement: Central and Integral
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