April 06, 2008

HTC Touch



This is my 3rd PDA phone (windows mobile). My first was O2 Mini (2005), O2 Atom (2007) and now I'm using HTC Touch with windows mobile 6.0.

I've got myself the enhanced HTC Touch version with double memory (128MB RAM, 256MB ROM). It comes with 4 variant of colours as shown in the picture above. The housing has a rubbery feeling and it grips on your hands very well. However, I am afraid that it will chip off over time, when the rubbery hardens. I am using a crystal case to protect the housing overall.

The highlights for this device is the Touch FLO, similarly to the iPhone multi touch. You drag your fingers from the bottom to the top, you will see a different sets of menu. And when you drag your finger from centre to the left or right, you are browsing the menus. To resume back to the original windows mobile desktop, you simply drag your finger from centre to the bottom.



HTC Touch uses a slow and steady TI OMAP850-201Mhz processor. To me, it does not show any lagging, unless you open too many programs running in the background. With this processor, the plus point is the battery life span. It can last up to 2-3 days with normal basic usage with bluetooth and wifi turned off.

The speaker phone feature is awesome, as the both the mic and speaker as clearly heard from both ends. This device uses IEEE 802.11b/g wifi connections. Detecting and connecting to the nearest wifi hot spot is not an issue. The speed is reasonable as well.

The build in camera is 2.0 megapixels. For a phone camera, the quality is acceptable. It is better than both my old O2 Mini and O2 Atom.

The design is slim and nice to hold on your hands. I think this is the slimmist pda phone in the market. The box comes with 1 headset, 1 charger, 1 earphone, 1 battery, 1 screen protector, manuals and cds and 1GB micro SD card.

Overall, I am very satisfied with the pda phone as windows mobile 6.0 has improved a lot compared with it's predecessor.