First look: HTC Touch 3G launched in India
HTC (High Tech Computer) Corporation, benchmarked for mobile phone innovation and design launches the HTC Touch 3G in India. With rich feature set, it is expected to be a revolutionary product with a sensational touch screen technology and enhanced ultra fast browsing experience making you feel online as comfortable in your hand as it does from your desk. Is Touch3G smartphone like any other iPhone contender? HTC really wants stay ahead in the race. What would make Touch3G so sensational? Sure, the novel touchscreen technology and the Internet! Read on for more…
On releasing the Touch3G smartphone, Ajay Sharma, Country Head, HTC India speaks “The HTC Touch 3G is a stylish, flexible and user-friendly touch phone in which speed, sensation and style complement the slender and lightweight design. Equipped with the enhanced TouchFLO™ user interface and super fast 3G Internet connectivity, HTC Touch 3G makes the mobile experience faster, sharper and more responsive. With its attractive design and ultra-sensitive touch screen, this phone will surely appeal to one and all.”
Next-generation TouchFLO technology and NO KEYPAD!
Comes with the latest Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional mobile operating system and 192 MB RAM, it has a 2.8″ QVGA 65K color TFT touchscreen with 240X320 pixels resolution. The display features the revolutionary – TouchFLO finger swipe navigation that allows you to manage the entire navigation as well as typing a text without requiring a keypad. It only features few hotkeys for handling phone calls. All the work can be easily managed with your finger gestures on the TouchFLO finger swipe navigation.
Hi-Fi Browsing Experience – It ‘means’ 3G
The HTC Touch™ 3G offers an uncompromising touch phone experience with powerful Internet capabilities. As part of this browsing experience users can zoom and pan Websites with one-hand. This faster mobile Internet browsing experience allows users to navigate more easily, leveraging the mobile Internet in a variety of ways. With the HTC Touch™ 3G, customers can search for and watch streaming video from YouTube and stay updated on the latest news with the integrated RSS reader. This isn’t the web compromised for mobile. It’s the web as you always wanted it be on a mobile. Browse full-screen pages delivered at broadband-speed, all displayed on a large, razor-sharp screen for an unparalleled mobile internet experience whenever you call upon it.
The new HTC Touch 3G is a quad-band phone that allows global roaming. It offers 3G HSDPA connectivity which means you can enjoy up to 18 times more download speed on it than the standard 3G. Live Video streaming from Youtube can be enjoyed on the HTC Touch 3G as well. Other than 3G, it also offers GPRS, EDGE & WiFi support. Its Native support for Google Maps along with A-GPS means you won’t miss the directions, where ever you are.
Other Features:
Frankly, for providing enhanced networking and accessibility, though certain features are compromised, It comes with a 3.15MP camera and following features still make the smartphone one to bear with. In a nutshell, they are Handwriting recognition, Integrated RSS Reader for news, HTML based Pocket IE Web Browser, A Pocket Office Document Reader (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF viewer),5-way navigation and lot more.
The HTC Touch 3G will be available at a Market Operating Price of Rs. 28,450/- at all leading HTC Authorized Resellers across the country.
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