Thursday, September 18, 2008

-- new touches

HTC has just officially unveiled 3 new PDA phones into the Touch family.
  • Touch Viva, for people on budget,
  • Touch 3G, adding 3G to the original Touch, but remaining relatively light (96g only),
  • and Touch HD, the king of touchscreen Windows Mobile devices.
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All tech geeks including even iPhone 3G users are focused on Touch HD, no doubt due to its whopdeedodily humongous screen. The display is...
  • 3.8 inches (iPhone's 3.5 inches)
  • 480x800 in resolution (iPhone's meager - 320x480)
The best website browsing experience falls to Touch HD now. Not to mention there's FLASH and Javascript support, unlike Safari.

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Despite having (almost) the same dimensions as iPhone 3G, HTC managed to pack in features better than the iPhone, giving it a good spanking, spec to spec, everywhere.
  • main 5 megapixels camera with autofocus (iPhone's 2MP fixed focus)
  • front VGA camera (or 640x480 or 0.3MP, which even my N82 can't do)
  • HSDPA 7.2Mbps support (while Steve Jobs is only touting 3G!?)
  • microSD slot
  • Pocket Office (yes, it can edit Office files)
  • and more... like FM, TV-out...

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Also, the features that Windows Mobile users get to enjoy ever since... ever since, while Apple haven't got to implement yet and also purposely crippled...
  • COPY and PASTE!!! (no kidding...)
  • FULL Bluetooth features with A2DP support!! (so you can freely transfer anything to anyone, and can use the Bluetooth headset of your choice)
  • FREEDOM to install any software you want (without having to jailbreak)
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The only downside... it's heavier than iPhone 3G (which is already heavy enough).

>> http://www.htc.com/www/default.aspx