HTC Touch Pro2, Touch Diamond2 Phones Unveiled

HTC Touch Pro2, Touch Diamond2 Phones Unveiled

Techtree News Staff, Apr 17, 2009 1625 hrs IST

Focus on making navigation easier and more intuitive

Remember the HTC Touch Pro and the Touch Diamond2?

Both these handsets were first announced back in February and were touted to be the successors to the existing Touch Pro and Touch Diamond. HTC also promised a Q2 rollout for both phones. Q2 is here, and HTC has finally made the finer details of the devices (read: price) public!

The phones utilize HTC's latest TouchFLO 3D interface, which has been more deeply integrated into a customized version of the Windows Mobile 6.1. The focus, this time, is to make navigation easier and more intuitive, says the HTC press release.

Let's now delve into the finer details of each of these phones.

HTC Touch Diamond2

The HTC Touch Diamond2, successor to the Touch Diamond (obviously!), features a larger 3.2-inch VGA display and is quite slim at just 13.7 mm. What's new? It's got this sensitive zoom bar for faster zooming of Web pages, emails, text messages, photos, and documents. Battery capacity has been boosted with the latest edition boasting a cool 20% larger battery. We will have to wait to check and see if the boost has any effect on the actual standby and talk time. Oh, we almost missed out mentioning the five-megapixel autofocus camera!

HTC Touch Pro2

The Touch Pro2 comes with a "high-resolution 3.6-inch widescreen VGA display for an expanded viewing area." It also has a large QWERTY keyboard. As suspected, battery capacity seems to have been increased. Other features remain similar to the Touch Diamond2.

Both the devices now come with an improved single contact view that displays the individual conversation history of contacts, regardless of whether voice, text, or emails were used. This can be viewed from the contact card or the in-call screen during a phone conversation. Then, HTC's Push Internet Technology finds its way into the devices. Push Internet claims to alleviate the issue of slow downloading and rendering of Web pages on a mobile phone. Users can pre-select their favorite websites to get immediate access to them when needed.

Another new technology that HTC has announced along with the phones is "Straight Talk technology," which will help users to integrate the email, voice, and speakerphone experience together. "Users can transition seamlessly from email to single or multi-party conference calls and turn any location into a conference room," says HTC in a canned press release statement. The technology, according to HTC, provides a sophisticated speakerphone experience similar to that found in corporate boardrooms. All you need to do is flip your Touch Pro2 over; it automatically turns into a conference room speakerphone system.

The HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2 will be available from mid May and June end, 2009, and will cost you around $720 (Rs. 36,000 approx.) and $879 (Rs. 43,000 approx.), respectively.