Life of A Phone Lover

HTC Touch

The HTC Touch is a stylish and small PDA phone that makes full use of its touch screen technology. Presently, majority consumers assume that PDA phones are complicated to use. The thought of learning how to use it would put off many in the first place. However you need not fret as the HTC Touch comes with user friendly functions.



Let me show you the specifications of this gadget;

Processor: TI's OMAP™ 850, 201 MHz
Operating System: Windows Mobile® 6 Professional
Memory: ROM: 128 MB
SDRAM: 64 MB DDR
Dimension: 99.9mm (L) X 58mm (W) X 13.9mm (T)
Weight: 112g with battery
Display: 2.8" LCD touch screen with backlight, 240 X 320 dots resolution with 65,536 colors
Network: GSM/GPRS/EDGE Tri-band: 900, 1800, 1900 (The device will operate on frequencies available from the cellular network.)
Device Control: HTC TouchFLO™ , 5-Way navigation control
Connectivity: Bluetooth® 2.0, Wi-Fi® IEEE 802.11 b/g , HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB and audio jack in one)
Camera: 2.0 Megapixel CMOS color camera
Audio: Built-in microphone and 3-in-1 speaker
Support:Windows Media Player supported formats: AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, WMA, WAV, QCELP, MPEG4, AMR-NB, AMR-WB
Battery: Rechargeable Li-Ion battery , Capacity: 1100 mAh
Standby time: Up to 200 hours
Talk time: Up to 5 hours
Expansion Slot: MicroSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible), 1GB card included
Price: RM1899 (Price may vary from stores)

I'll begin with its exterior. The front panel is dominated by the 2.8" 65K color touchscreen TFT display, so there will be no issue with surfing the net through WiFi. There's a sim card slot (on the right side) for you to insert the sim card and the slot for MicroSD slot is just beside it. At the bottom side of the phone is where the USB port, the microphone pinhole and the reset hole is located.


This is how the main screen looks like.

Since the HTC Touch is designed to be an entirely touch screen device, there are only 3 shortcut keys available. With the new TouchFlo system, users can choose between using the touch pen or to use their finger to tap/drag across the screen. However it is advisable to use the touch pen as using fingers are a little cumbersome when it comes to fiddling with the settings as certain dropdown selection can appear unreasonably tiny.



Tapping on the "Start" menu will bring up a window that displays Excel Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile, Word Mobile as well as other functions such as Internet Explorer and File Explorer on the screen. Functions like notes, calendar, messaging and contacts is not something new as PDA with Window OS would have these similar applications. This gadget comes with 2 default games which are BubbleBreaker and Solitaire (boring games).


The TouchFLO technology (showing a 3D view of the menu).

I believe a 2.0 Megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom would be sufficient for a PDA phone. First downside; the viewfinder is slightly slow in showing response to the direction the lens was pointed at. This phone supports bluetooth and WiFi but it doesn't have infrared (who cares?) and 3G. Second disadvantage; Oh man, how can a phone "survive" without 3G these days??

Other than the flaws mentioned above, this device score slightly above average especially with TouchFLO that provides user friendly handling of this phone. With such reasonable pricing, there's nothing much we can expect from it though it will definitely be a hit in the market with its appealing design.

My Rating:
Build quality: 7/10
Interface: 7/10
Value-for-money: 8/10
Overall rating: 7.5/10

2 comments | Posted in » HTC