Loading ...HTC today unveiled its advanced next generation business smartphone, the HTC Touch Pro. At the heart of the Touch Pro is essentially the HTC Diamond with a slide-out five row QWERTY keyboard. The Touch Pro targets power user requiring a physical keyboard for easier text entry in case the virtual keyboard is too difficult to use.
The Touch Pro features HTC’s innovative TouchFLO 3D, a new touch-sensitive control for device interaction, broadband-like speeds with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA wireless connectivity. Unlike the Diamond, the Touch Pro sports a much larger battery capacity of 1350mAh allowing for up to 8 hours of talk time and a microSD memory card slot. Other features include 512MB flash, 288MB RAM, GPS capabilities, 2.8-inch VGA touch screen and 3.2-megapixel camera equipped with video calling.
The HTC Touch Pro will be available in major cities across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East late this summer. Latin American and North American versions of the Touch Pro will be available later in 2008.
Press Release
HTC Touch Pro Bridges Mobile Work With Mobile Play
Advanced 3D Touch User Interface, Desktop-like browsing, 5-row sliding QWERTY Keyboard and Window Mobile 6.1 create hybrid business phone
Taipei, Taiwan - June 4, 2008 - HTC Corp., a global leader in mobile phone innovation and design, today unveiled its advanced next generation business phone, the HTC Touch ProTM. Bringing a beautiful new angle to mobile business productivity, the HTC Touch Pro utilizes similar styling and functionality of the highly anticipated Touch DiamondTM and introduces a variety of business-focused enhancements that make getting work done on the go quick and easy.
“The HTC Touch Pro and Touch Diamond have created a new generation of HTC touch devices that make the promise of the one-hand, one-touch mobile Internet a reality,” said Peter Chou, president and CEO, HTC Corp. “HTC Touch Pro is for those customers that demand the ease of use and enjoyment of TouchFLOTM 3D and want the styling of the Touch Diamond but also need the powerful mobile business experience that HTC delivers.”
A New Dimension To Touch - One hand, one touch
HTC has taken a great leap forward in touch screen innovation with its 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D. TouchFLO 3D provides a stunningly intuitive way to zip through common tasks like messaging, calendar appointments or making calls with just one touch. Delve a little deeper to find that your music, photos, contacts and surfing the web are also responsive to the touch. In addition, the Touch Pro includes a new innovative touch-sensitive control for device interaction.
Making The Mobile Internet Useful and Fun
With the introduction of Touch Diamond and Touch Pro, HTC delivers an entirely new mobile Internet experience that utilizes broadband-like speeds with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA wireless connectivity. Committed to improving Web browsing, HTC provides a new customized mobile Web browser that enables easy viewing and effortless navigation of Websites in the way they are designed to be viewed on a PC. As part of this browsing experience users can zoom and pan Websites with one-hand and automatically view optimized content that has been specially created to fit the display. Turning the device sideways automatically rotates the web page view from a portrait to landscape view.
In addition to Web browsing, the Touch Pro includes an HTC-developed, YouTube application for watching a variety of user generated video content as well as including Google Maps for mobile for mapping and traffic data.
Unmatched Style With Complete Productivity
Like the Touch Diamond, Touch Pro is crafted with precision to fit comfortably in a user’s hand and brings together elegant touch screen response with the direct precision of HTC’s trademark sliding keyboard design. Introducing a new five-row QWERTY keyboard layout that makes typing-intensive tasks like composing email or working on Microsoft Office® documents quick and easy. Built-in TV-out functionality means users can deliver the perfect PowerPoint® presentation from the Touch Pro.
Bursting with Innovation
The Touch Pro delivers an unrivalled combination of features and functionality. The 2.8 inch display provides near-print quality viewing that enables beautiful Web browsing and viewing of photographs. The built-in camera includes an optical auto-focus lens that ensures the photos you take will be clear and consistent. Advanced wireless and auto sensor screen pivoting are just a few of the features that make the Touch Pro experience a stand out.
Availability
The HTC Touch ProTM will be available to customers across all major European, Asian and the Middle East markets in late summer. The North American and Latin American versions of Touch Pro will be available later in 2008.
Key HTC Touch Pro Specifications
HTC Introduces New Accessories
Also today, HTC announced multiple accessories will available for the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro including a similarly designed desktop cradle and travel charger accessory pack as well as an extended battery and slim collapsible case for the Touch Diamond.
June 4th, 2008 at 5:17 am
I like this one…. the keyboard will make things allot nicer to Handle…
ric says:is ther a price set jet?
June 4th, 2008 at 8:57 am
I’m interested and i’m from the Philippines, where can i buy it and how much?
gabbie says:June 7th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
I’ve searched on the web and there is no info on this phone, and no price yet. I’m really hoping someone will come up with a price. I’m thinking prob $300-$400.
zain says:June 10th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
its gona be about 800 bucks man. ima just get the samsung instinct or just the htc touch.
Vincent Nguyen says:June 11th, 2008 at 9:49 am
HTC spokesperson told me that the price for the Touch Pro has not been set it. Stay tune.
Jay says:June 19th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Does anyone know how can I purchase the phone while residing in the U.S., I know it won’t be available ’til late 2008 but I would like it sooner than that.
kate says:June 23rd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
will i be able to use this phone in Canada?
john says:can i use it on bell or will i need to switch to rogers?
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
what do they mean by late 2008 and on google if you look up where can you buy the htc touch pro it is only like1 $300 and should i buy this or the att tilt aka htc tytn 2 aka the htc kaiser?
Bones says:July 13th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Kate, you would have to switch to Rogers as this is an HSDPA (3G) network phone which no other provider in Canada uses but Rogers.
Bones
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July 14th, 2008 at 6:39 am
ANy idea when Verizon will have this PDA. This will be a great phone, combination of Iphone and Treo.
hoare says:July 14th, 2008 at 9:31 am
3G ??
Prateek says:July 20th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
this phone cannot be 300 to 400 dollars. Its older version is Touch Diamond that is 900 Dollars so this will be equal or more for sure