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Touted for its ability to bridge mobile business through the outlet of mobile play, Taiwan consumer electronics company High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC) is offering up its new Touch Pro handset, a hybrid business phone bolstered by the appeal of relaxed, interactive, and more fun-based user elements.
HTC unveils its new Touch Pro hybrid business phone. Image: HTC.
From a strictly business angle, the Touch Pro includes TouchFLO 3D technology, HTC’s latest touch-sensitive interface designed to enable on-the-go professionals to whiz through everyday work tasks such as messaging, calendar appointments and business calls with just one touch.
However, TouchFLO 3D can also be utilised by the user for one-touch access to their personal music and photographs, while contact lists and even Web browsing are also fully responsive to the Touch Pro’s tactile interfacing via its slick 2.8-inch VGA touch screen.
Styled alongside HTC’s attractive Touch Diamond handset, the new Touch Pro also offers business users the added functionality of a five-row sliding QWERTY keyboard, desktop-like browsing, and the Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system.
Other business-based elements include access to Microsoft Office and also a handy built-in TV-out functionality that means users can wow fellow professionals by delivering the perfect PowerPoint presentation through their handset.
“Touch Pro is for those customers that demand the ease of use and enjoyment of TouchFLO 3D and want the styling of the Touch Diamond but also need the powerful mobile business experience that HTC delivers,” enthused HTC CEO and president Peter Chou in an official statement.
Built on the appeal of “one-hand, one-touch mobile Internet,” the Touch Pro relies on wireless HSDPA 7.2Mbps to deliver broadband-like Web speeds to the user while also providing a new and customised handset browser that enables intuitive online viewing and navigation similar to that utilised via a conventional PC.
Specific aspects include zoom and pan functions, which require touch interfacing with only one hand in order to automatically view optimised content perfectly formed for the Touch Pro’s screen.
The faux business phone also delivers Web pages in a more panoramic landscape view should the user simply turn the device on its side, while HTC has bundled in a YouTube application for easy video-clip watching along with the added mobile attraction of Google Maps.
Other points of business/fun attraction dotted about the Touch Pro handset include: Qualcomm’s MSM 7201 chipset (528MHz); a 3.2 mega pixel camera; a second VGA camera for video calls; 512MB of flash memory; 288MB of RAM; microSD expansion compatibility; Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR; Wi-Fi 802.11b/g; and USB 2.0.
Expect the Touch Pro to arrive in all major European, Asian and Middle Eastern markets before the end of summer. A North American and Latin American arrival should roll around before the close of 2008. Pricing has yet to be confirmed by HTC.
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