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HTC Touch Pro2 is a high end (slider) cell phone for users demanding a lot more form their phones than making phone calls.

Overview:

HTC Touch Pro2 is a very powerful cell phone featuring a fast processor and a dedicated graphics chip to make working with it a real pleasure. Additionally, the HTC Touch Pro2 has great connectivity, built in GPS receiver with A-GPS, excellent web browser and Office document viewer and editor right out of the box. Of course, the HTC phone features also a music player and a built-in camera.

HTC Touch Pro2 pros:
+ Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support and HSDPA 7.2Mbps
+ 3.15 MP auto focus camera
+ 3.6″ 65K-color touchscreen WVGA display
+ Revamped TouchFLO 3D Home screen and gesture controls
+ Dedicated graphics chip (64MB RAM reserved for graphics)
+ Wi-Fi and built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS
+ Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 Mhz CPU and 288 MB DDR SDRAM
+ Standard miniUSB port and Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
+ Five row full QWERTY side-sliding keyboard of brilliant ergonomics
+ TV out
+ Excellent video playback
+ MS Office Mobile document editor
+ Opera 9.5 web browser

HTC Touch Pro2 cons:
- Poor camera performance
- Considerable size and weight
- Lack of standard 3.5mm audio jack
- Average sunlight legibility
- No flash for the camera

Design:

HTC Touch Pro 2 measures 116 X 59.2 X 16.65 mm (4.57 X 2.33 X 0.66 inches) and weighs 178.5 grams (6.3 ounces) with battery. Although is might seems that touchscreen devices have quite limited design options somehow the HTC Touch Pro2 is able to stand out from the crowd. The front panel is dominated by the 3.6” touchscreen, whereas the back houses the 3 megapixel camera lens and a second microphone used for improving sound quality during phone calls by muting background noise. The right side of the HTC Touch Pro2 features the hot swappable memory card slot. The left side houses only the volume rocker. On the bottom you can see the miniUSB port and the stylus compartment whereas on the top of the HTC cell phone the power key.

Performance:

Unfortunately, the HTC Touch Pro 2 has troubles displaying nice image in bright daylight. It’s really quite surprising considering that the HTC phone is a high end smartphone. The battery performance in the HTC Touch Pro2 is more than satisfactory with 50 hours of standby and over 8 hours of talk time. When you slide the phone open you will see the comfortable full QWERTY keyboard which provides good feedback and has excellent ergonomics.

Multimedia:

The HTC Touch Pro2 comes with a very good music player which resembles iPod Touch a bit as it has something similar to the Cover Flow. You can sort your music library by artist, genre, compose, or make your own playlists. As there is no 3.5m standard audio jack you will have to use the headphones that come with the HTC cell phone. The general audio quality is commendable, with good frequency response, acceptable noise level and dynamic range.
The HTC Touch Pro2 also comes with a video player supporting mp4 and 3gp files so you will have to install additional software to run DIvX and XviD. The videos look very good on the bright and large display.
The HTC Touch Pro2 also features a 3 megapixel camera capable of taking 2048 x 1536 photos. As the camera has no flash you will be unable to take photos in darker areas and with no dedicated camera key you have to start it from the menu. Although there are several features for the camera the overall image quality disappoints. The photos might have good amount of detail but the colors look unreal. Moreover, the camera tends to oversharpen and produce too much noise.
As the HTC Touch Pro2 features Opera 9.5 web browser and good connectivity browsing the internet with the HTC Touch Pro2 is a real pleasure. The web sites are rendered just like on your computer and with features such as find on page and a virtual pointer it is easy to find desired information quickly.

Menus/Ease of use:

HTC Touch Pro2 runs on Windows Mobile with the HTC’s TouchFLO interface. The entire user interface is touch optimized and has 3D home screen with multiple tabs. Each tab has a different purpose and so you get one for your favorite contacts, one for text massages, one for music player, Internet, calendar, photos and videos and settings. Such a menu division makes it really easy to operate the phone with a single swipe of a finger. Of course you can customize your tabs so suit your needs more. As the operating system in the HTC Touch Pro2 is Windows Mobile i think everyone knows what to expect from it.

Selected HTC Touch Pro2 features and specifications:

• Processor

Qualcomm® MSM7200A™, 528 MHz

• Operating System

Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional

• Memory

ROM: 512 MB
RAM: 288 MB

• Display

3.6-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 480 X 800 WVGA resolution
Adjustable tilt screen

• Network

HSPA/WCDMA:
Europe/Asia: 900/2100 MHz
Up to 2 Mbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:
Europe/Asia: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
(Band frequency, HSPA availability, and data speed are operator dependent.)

• Device Control

TouchFLO™ 3D
Zoom bar

• Keyboard

Slide-out 5-row QWERTY keyboard

• GPS

Internal GPS antenna

• Connectivity

Bluetooth® 2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for wireless stereo headsets
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g
HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB 2.0, audio jack, and TV Out* in one)

• Camera

Main camera: 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus
Second camera: VGA CMOS color camera

• Audio supported formats

AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, QCP, MP3, WMA, WAV, MIDI, M4A
Video supported formats
WMV, ASF, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, M4V, AVI

• Battery

Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery
Capacity: 1500 mAh

• Talk time:

Up to 390 minutes for WCDMA
Up to 510 minutes for GSM

• Standby time:

Up to 750 hours for WCDMA
Up to 500 hours for GSM
Video call time: Up to 160 minutes
(The above are subject to network and phone usage.)

• Expansion Slot

microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)

• AC Adapter

Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60 Hz
DC output: 5V and 1A

• Special Features

G-Sensor
Straight Talk™
Noise-cancelling dual microphones and speakers

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