Recently, I have noticed that HTC has slowly gained momentum in the mobile market. The HTC Touch Pro 2 will definitely help them cement themselves. The first thing that catches your eye is the beautiful 3.6” WVGA resistive screen. It can easily be mistaken for an iPhone, that is until you slide the screen up to reveal a spacious QWERTY keyboard. This addition alone was enough to get me excited. The keyboard was one thing that I definitely felt was missing from the Touch HD. The keys are offset (like the keys on your PC keyboard), so it feels a little more natural while typing. If that wasn’t enough, HTC brought back the tilting screen from the TyTN II (Tilt). Turn the phone over and your presented with a massive speaker (pictured above). It uses two mics, which help filter out background noise. The speaker is crisp and loud. Now on to the software!
The operating system is Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, which is masked by HTC’s TouchFlo 3D UI. The resistive touchscreen is very fast and responsive and TouchFlo 3D is wonderful at keeping important things at your fingertips. It doesn’t hurt that the hard working geniuses over XDA Developers are working hard to port Windows Mobile 6.5 over the Touch Pro 2. They have successfully done so with the Touch HD (including TouchFlo 3D) and there have been ROMs floating around with the second edition of HTC’s UI, TouchFlo 3D 2. It has all the regulars that you would expect from a high-end phone. WiFi, Bluetooth, SMS (text) & MMS (pic text), GPS (works wonderfully with TomTom 7, pictured above), G-Sensor (accelerometer), as well as EDGE network speeds are included, but sadly no 3G support. It houses a 3.2 MP camera on the back with a VGA CMOS camera on the front, for video calls. Battery life is substantial at 510 minutes (8.5 hours) talk time and 500 minutes (8.3 hours) standby. It supports a number of video and music formats and makes playing YouTube videos playable with a dedicated program. Mini USB and expandable storage via a microSD card round out the myriads of features offered by HTC. With a price tag around $650.00 (lowest I’ve seen), the phone better be worth it!
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