• HTC Touch Cruise

    HTC Touch Cruise

    Frazier Barretto, Jun 23, 2008 1540 hrs IST

    The HTC Touch Cruise is a powerful phone, but does it deliver on all counts? Read on to find out.

    HTC Today Screen, One-handed/Single Finger Usage, Wi-Fi, GPS, Good screen (2.8-inch), 3MP Camera with autofocus.

    Poor GPS (MapKing), Problems with camera module, Sluggish interface at times (TouchFLO), Expensive.

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Build & Design



The HTC Touch Cruise has a solid build, feels good in your hand, and gives you the confidence of it not slipping out of your hold. The Touch Cruise features a rubberized plastic finish throughout most of its body except for two strips of chrome on both sides and metal around the 5-way D-Pad wheel.



On the face of the phone you see a large 2.8-inch screen with a secondary camera placed above for video calls. The earpiece beside it contains LEDs, which indicate if wireless is turned ON, battery status below the screen is the 5-way D-Pad wheel supported by call buttons and two shortcut buttons. The shortcut buttons, along with the buttons on either side, can be customized. Holding down the call hang-up button continuously offers you options to turn ON/OFF Flight mode, Terminate Data Connection, Lock Phone, Silent Profile, & settings regarding the quick list. You can also set the action (i.e. holding down the call hang-up button) to perform any of the tasks as default without any of the other options. The two shortcut keys are set, by default, to GPS and Internet Explorer.





The right side of the phone sees a memory card slot hidden behind chrome-plated dust cover and the camera button (can be customized as well) right at the end below which you have the stylus compartment. The left side of the phone has one customizable button (default set to voice commander) and the volume control button.



The top of the phone has the Power/ Standby button while the tail of the phone sees a multipurpose miniUSB port and the lanyard hole. The back of the phone features the name of the phone along with the 3.2 MP camera and the portrait mirror.
On the whole, the layout and build of the phone are good. The design is simple and that's what makes it quite an elegant handset.

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(6) Comments
Without the use
, Without the use of Wi-Fi, the cattery can deliver almost 3 days, on Jun 27, 2008 08:31 PM
Without the use of Wi-Fi, the cattery can deliver almost 3 days
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Grim
,B'lore, on Aug 10, 2008 11:43 PM
WTF was that???
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Sudhir Varma
,Bangalore, on Jul 23, 2008 09:44 PM
I have had a very bad experience with the HTC TyTN II phone. The Active Sync is not working and I can not use most of my phone's functions....SAD for a NEW launch..I think there is a software problem but am not sure. The dealer has not been able to rectify.
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Anil
,Bangalore, on Jun 25, 2008 11:52 AM
is it better than apple iphone
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sushil
,mumbai, on Jun 25, 2008 09:26 AM
what was the price htc phone
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Gaffar
,Cox's Bazar, on Jun 24, 2008 04:48 PM
Fine set
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