HTC Touch Pro Announced

[ZeroHour]

Ripped from neowin.net:

HTC today unveiled its next generation business phone, the HTC Touch Pro.

The HTC Touch Pro (HTC Rafael) was rumoured to be announced in last months unveiling of the HTC Touch Diamond but HTC have waited until today to unleash their latest and greatest offering.

The Touch Pro features Windows Mobile 6.1, HSDPA (7.2mbps), 2.8" VGA screen, 3.2 MP camera, 512MB flash and 288MB RAM, Wi-Fi, GPS, bluetooth and a slide out 5 row QWERTY keyboard. All of the specs are backed up with a 1350 mAh battery so battery life shouldn't be too bad on this device. The Touch Pro also has similar styling and the updated touchflo interface introduced with the Diamond.

HTC is working hard to make their devices one hand, one touch capable allowing users to take advantage of their 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D. The TouchFLO interface allows users to surf through popular functions of the device such as messaging, calendar appointments and making calls. Thankfully for Windows Mobile we have great OEMs like HTC creating a better user experience than that of Microsoft, many devoted Windows Mobile MVPs, users and customers have been pushing Microsoft to fix simple issues with the Windows Mobile OS since 2000. Microsoft plans to re-invent the OS with Windows Mobile 7 and address many of the complaints.

The HTC Touch Pro will be available to customers across all major European, Asian and the Middle East markets in late summer. The North American and Latin American versions of Touch Pro will be available later in 2008.

HTC - Touch Pro

YouTube - HTC Touch Pro - aka Raphael

Thoughts?
I want it but a Xperia X1 does look tasty too

[klawd]

Not used HTC Touch Pro yet, but have a HTC Touch Duo and am very dissapointed with it.

TouchFLO is really over rated. Windows is horribly slow, battery life is terrible and it keeps locking up. The touch screen is far too difficult to use with tiny buttons on it. It looks nice but thats about it.

If they replaced Windows with a linux based OS, sorted out the battery life and forgot about the touchscreen, dropped the price, it would be a much better device imo.

[SYNACK]

It does look good, I wonder if they will bother to include all the drivers in this one. I won't buy anything from HTC until I get confirmation from somebody that has actually brought and used one that it does everything that they say on the box reasonably well.

For the above concern alone I would probably go for the Sony, but from what I've seen the Sony's screen looks bigger and better plus keyboard looks more sturdy so HTC has an uphill battle to get any more of my cash.

Not used HTC Touch Pro yet, but have a HTC Touch Duo and am very dissapointed with it.

TouchFLO is really over rated. Windows is horribly slow, battery life is terrible and it keeps locking up. The touch screen is far too difficult to use with tiny buttons on it. It looks nice but thats about it.

If they replaced Windows with a linux based OS, sorted out the battery life and forgot about the touchscreen, dropped the price, it would be a much better device imo.

Not so much the fault of Windows in this case, blame HTC as it was their decision not to use the integrated video accelerator and dump the whole lot on the CPU. Their previous line of devices were far better for speed and other brands also offer much more responsive alternatives. Check out this site.

HTCClassAction.org - Because HTC dropped the ball, and it's about time they pick it up!

[Manilus]

Not sure if you all know or not, but HTC is actually the company that makes the Xperia X1 for Sony Ericsson...

[ZeroHour]

Welcome to the forums Manilus

I was aware, its the phone I am most keep on right now.