HTC Touch: iPhone-like touchscreen handset available in Europe
The latest mobile handset to attempt an iPhone killing is HTC's Touch, a Windows Mobile-based smart phone that is supposed to have an "innovative new concept in intuitive touch screen navigation". Sounds familiar, huh?
It continues: the HTC Touch represents extensive research and development, and the conviction that fingertip control will enable more efficient, natural and intuitive touch screen navigation.
Did Steve Jobs write this?
Perhaps not:
“With the HTC Touch, access to your most commonly used content, contacts and features is only a simple finger flick away,” said Peter Chou, CEO and President of HTC. “Mobile phone makers have done a great job of cramming ever more exciting features into ever smaller phones, but the way in which one accesses these increasingly sophisticated features has not kept pace. That ends today with the HTC Touch."
HTC's touch system is called TouchFLO, and allows users to simply sweep their finger up the display to launch an animated, 3D interface that comprises of three screens: Contacts, Media, and Applications. The interface can be spun by swiping a finger right or left across the display, and the system is supposed to enhance finger touch scrolling and browsing of web pages, documents, messages, and contact lists.
The phone's feature list includes a two megapixel camera, 2.8 inch colour screen with a 240x320 pixel resolution, 1GB microSD card, and Outlook and Internet Explorer software, plus the ability to add third-party software.
The phone offers up to five hours talk time, is GSM/GRPS/EDGE tri band, and features Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It will come in soft black or wasabi green (hmm).
Launching globally, including in Asia, UK customers will be able to get one initially through Orange. T-Mobile will also be launching a customised version called the MDA Touch, tying in with their "Web'n'Walk" service.
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