The HTC Touch Pro brings together elegant touch screen response with the direct precision of keyboard entry¿ leaving out nothing to deliver a powerhouse communication tool in a beautiful, compact design.The 2.8-inch VGA touch screen provides four times the resolution of most smart devices, making email, documents and web pages sharper and easier to work with than ever before.HTC rich, touch-responsive interface, TouchFLO 3D, provides a stunningly intuitive way to zip through common tasks like messaging, calendar checks or making calls. Delve a little deeper to find that playing media files, searching for contacts and surfing the web are also responsive to your touch.The web browser puts the full Internet in the palm of yo (more…)
Better than the iPhone for work? Let me count the ways!, July 11, 2009
Rating: 5/5
1. MicroSD slot means you have virtually unlimited space for files, and it is trivial to exchange files with any computer, not just one on which you have installed a files app.
2. Speed and multitasking means you can do things like listen to music, edit documents and send emails simultaneously and at the same time.
3. Superb Office document management capabilities. ‘Nuff said.
4. Higher-res screen means documents like Excel spreadsheets are much more practical, but even Word or PDF files are much more readable and easier on the eyes.
5. Windows home page (I turned off FLO) means you can see all tasks, calendar, to-dos, etc. on one home page
6. Citrix client compatibility meant for me I could control my office desktop from my phone.
7. Ah, that lovely keyboard. Besides being surer and faster, when you pull it out to type, you can still see the entire screen for surfing. This provides a much larger effective screen for anything which involves text.
Downside: Can’t make it iFart
I’ve owned both. I changed carriers and currently have an iPhone.
Great do-everything business phone, September 18, 2009
Rating: 5/5
I had envy when the Tilt was announced, and bought one this summer when it reached an affordable price on ebay. Then, two months after carrying the tilt around, a work colleague asked me if I wanted to buy his HTC Touch Pro for $150. He is a very knowledgeable cell phone person, so I accepted the offer, without realizing just how good this deal was until I got it home and started using it! Wow! This gem does everything an IT professional would ever want to do! I recharge it every other day, and I keep USB recharging accessories at work and at home, so if I ever get caught in a conversation or WiFi session that lasts more than two hours, then I simply plug it in at the next stop. Mine has the Raphael RRE 6.5 ROM loaded, and it is fast and stable. No regrets at all on this purchase.
I will keep this one until the HTC Touch Pro 2 (second generation Tilt) gets down to an affordable price. I love this phone.
Woody
Not worth for the money, October 8, 2009
Rating: 2/5
I got the HTC touch pro from Sprint and I am definitely not happy with it. Not sure if its becos its running Windows Mobile, but its just not very intuitive and user friendly. There is no way to turn it on from the face of the phone and you need to do it by pressing it on the top which is not very convenient. The apps run very slowly and the touch screen operation is sometimes very frustrating – it does things that you didnt intend to do. The bluetooth operation is very flaky. I have also had problems of the phone locking up a few times and you have to reboot it. Do not expect the touch to be intuitive and precise like the iPhone, you will be disappointed. The most frustrating thing is, its very slow in responding when you are searching for a contact or typing something to find someone. I have also noticed that there is a delay while making or receiving a call – like you have to give it a few secs to respond. So, overall I am very unhappy with this device considering the price.
Superb business oriented Windows Mobile smart phone., October 10, 2009
Rating: 5/5
Superb business oriented Windows Mobile smart phone.
The HTC Touch Pro 2 is offered by all the major US carriers at this time. Some like Sprint have retained its international features so you can use CDMA and international protocols.
I’ve been using cellular phones since the Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS)was introduced in 1983. With the enhancements provided by HTC atop Microsoft Windows Mobile v6.1, the Touch Pro 2 is an absolute delight for the businessperson. With one glaring exception, it can be used as a substitute for a laptop computer in many circumstances. The exception is the lack of mouse support in the Qualcomm Bluetooth stack. Bluetooth keyboards work fine, but mouse functions are not supported. In my eyes, this represents a major oversight which I hope will be rectified in future ROM revisions.
Aside from that, the HTC Touch Pro 2 represents the state of the art in smart phones. It has a gorgeous 3.6-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 480 X 800 WVGA resolution. The screen also tilts which makes airline tray or restaurant table movie watching, RSS feed reading and (where possible) web browsing a pleasure. It also makes working on business documents in Microsoft Mobile Office, DataViz or SoftMaker products a pleasure. There is a five-row, slide-out QWERTY keyboard that is the best I’ve ever had on a cell phone. While you can’t touch type, you can do a pretty good job of two finger pecking.
Some carriers, again like Sprint, offer the HTC Touch Pro 2 with a standard 3.5mm audio jack. What a pleasure to finally just be able to plug in a pair of ordinary headphones!The HTC Touch Pro 2 accepts microSDHC cards up to 16 GB. (I presume 32 GB is also supported.) You can put plenty of music and video on the card, have great audio and a truly luscious screen. I am really amazed at just how well movies look on that screen. You’ll be best served with a third party media viewer like the CorePlayer.
The design is very finger-friendly. Some functions, such as browsing with the included Opera browser are adapted to finger swipes for navigating on and between pages and sites. My personal preference, however, remains the stylus. The onscreen keyboard is the best I’ve ever worked on and works especially well with fingertips. You don’t have to be dead-on to type a character. The logic does a very good job of figuring out what character you intended to strike.
The CPU is the same Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 MHz used in the Touch Pro and other HTC cell phones. It gets the job done, but it is not the fastest processor on the block. The allotment of 512 MB ROM and 288 MB RAM is reasonably generous, but like money, you can never have enough.
The Touch Pro 2 measures 4.57 X 2.33 X 0.66 inches and weighs 6.3 ounces. I carry it in a shirt pocket and don’t find the size or weight to be a problem.
Bluetooth and WiFi work just fine on this unit.
Some carriers, again Sprint is an example, keep the GPS enabled. While Sprint has an optional paid navigation program, I use my Touch Pro 2 GPS with Google Maps and Microsoft Bing. I no longer use a separate GPS unit this is all I need.
Output volume is excellent and there is a novel conference phone feature built in. Put the unit on its face and the back microphones are started. Fidelity and noise cancellation are pretty good. It is a nice feature for those who use it.
The 3.2 megapixel camera is nothing spectacular. There are no hardware buttons for the camera and it is both slower and more inconvenient to use than one triggered by a hardware button.
There is TV output through an optional cable and a bunch of other features that some may find useful.
A 1500 mAh battery is standard and it will last through a day of strenuous usage. But overall, plan on charging this unit every day or two if you make much use of it. Buying a second battery or an external battery is a wise idea.
Overall, I have found performance to be excellent in every regard. Teamed with a Bluetooth keyboard, I can often leave my laptop at home. Web browsing is a delight with Opera, Skyfire or Microsoft Internet Explorer. Memory problems have been non-existent for me no matter how many applications I’ve launched. (I do continue the well established habit of invoking the Task Manager from time to time.) The reset button is under the back cover which is, in my opinion, a design error – but I haven’t had to use it much. When I need it, though, it is something of a pain. You have to remove the stylus first, then the back cover. It is not a pleasant task under any circumstance, especially when the lighting is low.
Do I like the HTC Touch Pro 2? You bet. I think it is the best smart phone I’ve ever used. It gets closer to the grail of the highly portable computer that has been envisioned since the 1970s. Yes, the pipeline is already filling with devices running the much faster AMD Snapdragon processor. HTC is about to launch a unit with Snapdragon and a 4.3 inch screen. I suspect that the next model of the Touch Pro will be launching little more than a year from now and I suspect I will be straining on my leash to get one.
In the meantime, the HTC Touch Pro 2 is a dream to work with. If they fix the Bluetooth stack to work with a mouse or if a third party follows through with its promise to release a replacement stack, the HTC Touch Pro 2 will truly be a hand-sized laptop replacement. It is quite the marvel and a delight to use.
Jerry
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