HTC Touch Pro 2 Review - A week in my life.....

Introduction Ever since we first saw, and were blown away by, the original HTC Tytn (HTC Hermes) the flagship device for each generation has been the sliding hardware keyboard form factor from HTC. The Tytn II (Kaiser) and Touch Pro (Raphael) continued this trend and have led the way throughout each generation from HTC, and new OS iteration from Microsoft. It is then, with a little disappointment, that this latest flagship device, the Touch Pro 2, comes with same OS as its older sibling, Windows Mobile 6.1. For 6 months or so since we first heard rumours of the HTC Rhodium (Touch Pro 2) it was expected to ship with the new version of Windows Mobile, 6.5. With little more than an updated screen, on paper, I think this is the most low key device launch I've felt from HTC for a while. Does the Touch Pro 2 have hidden talents to make us lust over? Read on to find out.....

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Thanks go out to Lorraine at Clove.co.uk for providing us with a review sample.

For more information on the HTC Touch Pro 2 go to the Clove website at www.Clove.co.uk

As is the new trend with these reviews I'll produce a day by day commentary of a week’s use of the Touch Pro 2 along with photos/screen grabs and my thoughts as I go along. Feel free to ask questions, I'll endeavour to satisfy your need for detail. I'll use this for a more formally structured review you're all used to once the week is through.

Day 1 - Unboxing and first impressions. When I picked up my City Link package generously loaned from the ever helpful local device providers Clove, I thought, "Hold on, this is a bit small". Before I'd opened the standard courier plastic bag I was sure I'd been sent the HTC Snap, or some other, more compact Smartphone by mistake. So I was a little surprised to see the Touch Pro 2 image on the HTC box. It's about the same size as the Diamond box, much smaller than the Tytn II etc boxes have been.

Inside the box there is less glamour than usual. The device sits in a reconstituted "egg box" style brown inner package, as opposed to the flashy black designer innards typical associated with an HTC Touch device. Is this HTC's environmental offering or does it, dare I say it, reflect the cost cutting state of the current economic climate. I'll leave you to argue that one through!

There are no surprises with the usual software and documentation. You get the usual array of warranty and legal bumf, as well as a nice quick start guide and an HTC care booklet. The software included is contained on two disks; one has the usual trial of Office 2007 and the other contains soft copies of the manual and quick start guide.

From an accessory perspective if you have a Touch Pro or a Diamond you won't see anything new here. That's not a bad thing. HTC's accessories are always of reasonable style and quality without being exceptional. Here we have a standard HTC headset with optional ear buds, the Diamond style charger and USB cable. Other than that there’s a spare stylus and leatherette carry case.

First impression of the hardware is....shiny. Very shiny. It's a much better looking device in the flesh than it's photograph's suggest. I've tried to capture the "shininess" in the images you see here but it has to be seen with your own eyes to really appreciate. HTC have used the chrome effect very well indeed.

Second impression is......large. Not massive or anything but about Kaiser sized. It’s certainly not as compact as the original Touch Pro. It feels weighty in the hand too. I compared the specs of the three machines and the new Pro 2 is closer to the size and weight of the Kaiser (Tytn II) than the Touch Pro.

The other real attention grabber that struck me as I examined the hardware for the first time was how the screen dominates the front of the device. I'd say 80% of the front is screen, with the front controls just slim line across the foot of the device, and the speaker and indicator LED's mirroring this at the top. It certainly is a big screen. I can't wait to see how it looks........

Day 2 - Setting up! Ok, with all the boring technical gubbins out the way, lets get this beast powered up. Looking at shop dummies is no fun at all! As with most devices today the first thing you see after pushing the power button is a device specific splash screen with ROM version information in the bottom corner. Unfortunately the next thing we see is the Windows Mobile 6.1 start-up screen (unfortunate because 6.5 would have been much nicer). Once the device has sorted itself out for the first time and booted into the Os it goes off again and automatically installs and configures some more bits and pieces. This process all takes a good couple of minutes. System restarts after this initial setup are a lot quicker, typically taking just under a minute. Once this is done you are prompted with the HTC automatic setup screen. This gives you the option to import your contacts from your current SIM card and also to setup your network connection for you. I put a tick in box number 2, and let the device determine the short list for my Service Provider. The device correctly offered me O2 amongst the selection and I let it do its thing. To this point the connection settings have been spot on, and in general the pain of buying a SIM free device is virtually nullified by HTC's excellent automatic configuration software.

At this point I'd like to offer my respect to the person or team at HTC that is responsible for the screen on the touch Pro 2. Beautiful doesn't quite do it justice; it's awesome; crystal clear, bright and very, very sharp. The only regret I have is that like the chrome finish around the edge of the device no matter how many photos I take of it, they just will not do it justice. I've had a lot of HTC devices in my time (and other manufacturers too) and this is THE best screen I've ever seen on any kind of Smartphone/Pocket Pc. It's awesome.

Everyone reading this will have their own ideas what happens next. Some people will install all 18,000 Windows Mobile applications available on their device and some may not even install any. I can't cover all eventualities so I'll talk you through my own setup and my experience with it. As before I'll endeavour to answer any questions you folks may have. I keep all my software on MicroSD so I can easily move them around. so my first task is to insert the MicroSD card. The MicroSD card slot is housed behind the battery cover, but not under the battery. This is the best place for the card in my opinion as it means you can change the card easily if you wish, but it is also well protected. I used an 8GB MicroSD card but the Touch Pro 2 should take up to the maximum 32GB MicroSD which should be shipping from SanDisk towards the end of the year.

Ok, now we've booted into the device proper we have the lovely TouchFlo on screen the first thing to do is set the clock. This is where we see the first of HTC's upgrades to TouchFlo over the previous generation. I'm sure you all agree the new clock and alarm screens, although only offering the same functionality, are a welcome improvement over the default Windows Mobile ones. Nice.

For me personally, my next step in configuration is setting up my customised tones. I setup 4 tones, one ringtone and a tone each for SMS, MMS and email. Fortunately, for the telephone ringtone at least HTC make this easy. The last tab (by default) in the TouchFlo Today screen replacement is Settings, and within the Settings tab is a sound setup. In the sound setup applet you can change the ringtone with a nice scrolling touch sensitive selection list. Easy. My favourite ringtone, Oldphone, even comes as standard on the Touch Pro 2 like it did in the old days. Sweet. Unfortunately, setting up the other notifications' custom sounds was a lot more difficult. I copied my WAVs from my MicroSD card to the Application Data\Sounds directory and headed for settings again. There is no fancy HTC wizard for this (why not?) and so you have to use the advanced settings in the TouchFlo to drop down into Windows Mobile itself. I have a couple of gripes with the HTC Touch Pro 2 which I'll get to in due course but this is where I found the first. I am anti stylus. I'm SO anti stylus that it took me a while to remember it even existed; it's that long since I've had to use it. The problem is you HAVE to use it to change anything in the notifications menu because there's no dpad on the Touch Pro 2. There are several times since I've started using the device that I've wanted to use a dpad and then had to get the stylus out. You could argue you can use the directional keys on the hardware keyboard, but again, it's just annoying to have to open it up. In my opinion, until the base OS is more finger friendly we still need our dpads. More so than I stylus I think.

Once my sounds are set, I usually setup my email. I use a connection to a Microsoft Exchange 2007 server. Again HTC have put a nice GUI front end on this setup, although again it does not offer any functionality other than make the process finger friendly. It seems to take an age to complete though, a lot longer than the manual way; a good 10 minutes or so. It is a welcome addition though, and means we are getting ever closer to a finger touch only OS. It HTC had managed to do this for all the WM settings applets it would be awesome.

After the connection to Exchange was made and my mailbox synchronised I set about configuring the remaining tabs in TouchFlo. I setup my favourite users in the contact tab, and pointed the weather application at my nearest town in the weather tab. The weather app looks great on the 800x480 screen. You get the days forecast and also the next 5 days underneath. Very tidy.

Next up I pair my Motorola S9 Headset/Headphones. I listen to a lot of music on my devices and in my opinion there is nothing to touch the S9's for an all round combination of functionality and quality. So it's into the settings menu, but this time communications and Bluetooth. The Bluetooth menu is another that is improved with a nice new GUI. A simple wizard helps you with most of the options available. Again, like the new clock screens it's very pretty. I'm not 100% sure if this one is just a wizard though as I cannot pair my Sony Ericcson Bluetooth watch with the Touch Pro 2. It will not pair within the Bluetooth wizard itself or in the Smartwatchm program I use it with. Weird. I've never had a problem with probably more than 10 devices previously so I'm wondering if HTC have tweaked more than just the interface?

The remainder of my setup procedure continued as expected, with no new or unusual experiences along the way. Just for information I installed Astraware Sudoku and used DotFred's excellent PimBackup to restore the call and SMS logs from my previous device. I was thrown off track a little by the HTC "My Contact Card" as I assumed this was another Wizard linked to the Windows Mobile "Owner Information". It seems it is not. Ok, minor issues apart, we're all done and ready for some proper use now........

Day 3 - Initial thoughts on usage I've called this Day 3 for continuities sake but, the more observant amongst will notice that it's actually the fourth day that I've been using the Touch Pro 2 for. I'm starting to get a pretty good feel for the device now, and thought I'd share some of the pros and cons as I see them. I think firstly I'll start with the thing that has really been bugging me. The lack of OK button I'm finding to be a real nightmare. Yesterday I was adding a couple of appointments into my diary, and, well, it was much more difficult than it should have been. Navigating through the drop down menus is painful enough without a hardware dpad (there is a set of software cursor keys on the software SIP) with having to pan through each box then hit enter to select it and then enter again to scroll down through the options. Having to hit enter twice seems a waste of time to me. Anyway, back to the OK button (or lack thereof). So I've finished my appointment using the hardware keyboard and...... no OK button on that either. Fine, I'm sure if I hit the home button then that will do the same thing right? Wrong, I hit the home button and it's adios new appointment, hello TouchFlo. Nice. Back into the Calendar app, I recreated the appointment and stabbed at the OK with my thumb (I'm a one handed user) and....missed. I found out I had no new notifications, which is nice. I buckled; I was starting to wonder how well the device would bounce, so, in defeat, I took the stylus out. I can kind of understand not having a hardware OK on the front of the device but no OK on the hardware keyboard? Not even as a second function? Enough said.

While I'm thinking about the hardware keyboard, my experience of it is a bit of a mixed bag. It feels a lot like the Xperia keyboard, i.e. too soft and squishy, but having said that, I have not been missing keys like I did with the X1. The buttons are nice and big, the travel seems about right too. It's just the feedback that's not there. The original Touch Pro had a superb keyboard but for me the one on the Touch Pro 2 doesn't feel great but it seems to tick all the required boxes for use (except for a lack of OK button).

On to more positive thoughts, the lovely screen is still impressing the "four letter expletive” out of me. It's truly a thing of beauty. I've noticed a few anomalies with the way some of the software deals with the resolution though. The Touch Pro 2 seems to favour the stretch approach as opposed to the letterbox. That is, when an application is designed for QVGA or VGA as opposed to WVGA (either 320x240 or 640x480 as opposed to 800x480) the Touch Pro 2 generally seems to stretch the application along the Y-axis to fill the screen. Some other devices will display the application in the aspect it was designed for, centering the content in the middle of the screen with black bars at either end filling in the unused area of screen (letterbox). You can see an example of the stretch with the Copilot image. Personally I'd prefer the letterbox format, but it's really not an issue for me either way. What's important is that I've not come across any issues using any programs not designed for the 800x480 aspect and that is often the main worry when using a new standard resolution. With older devices some non widescreen applications do not install. On a slight tangent but generally on topic I noticed one small bug whereby screen caps I've been taking that are WVGA are showing as truncated VGA thumbnails in HTC Album. This could be a feature, but I'm not sure why that would be the case.

One more screen related feature that I'm loving is the screen saver. More specifically it's the way the screen fades in and out from off to on as opposed to going from black to bright as most devices do. It's a nice gentle fade (but not slow) wakeup to sleep progression and vice versa and it feels classy. On a related theme, something that will please a whole lot of people is the auto screen off while in a call. The Touch Pro 2 detects when your device is next to your ear, and blacks out the screen. Then when you move the device away from your ear the screen automatically comes back on. I spent an age moving the screen back and forth from my ear the first time I received a call on the Touch Pro 2; screen goes on, screen goes off, screen goes on, screen goes off etc. Much to the annoyance of my caller, a simple but really welcome feature.

From a performance perspective the Touch Pro 2 has been reasonably good. During some general TouchFlo use I've noticed a bit of slowdown, but not at any given time or process. Sometimes it seems to just "think" for a split second. It's something I've noticed but is nothing to worry about. The change in screen orientation can take a while though. By a while I mean occasionally it has taken a couple of seconds, which is too long. Not always, but sometimes. I've also noticed on a couple of times when rotating from portrait to landscape the screen has corrupted. This was mainly when the TouchFlo internet and is fixed by going back to portrait and then back to landscape again. Switching between tabs in TouchFlo is fast and responsive with the data following the tab icon just a split second after releasing your finger from the screen. I noticed no lag with TouchFlo in general as we saw with the early versions.

If the audio performance of the device is important to you then you'll be pleased to hear (do you see what I did there?) that the volume levels of the Touch Pro 2 are above average. In fact for an HTC device I'd go as far as to say they are positively loud. A couple of times my email alerts have made me jump (seriously!) and when I powered on my Motorola S9's for the first time the Tie Fighter introduction to Ash's Lose Control almost blew my ears off (you know what I mean. ). It's like HTC have turned the audio on the Touch Pro 2 up to twelve. Sweet. Also of note is the clarity level of the calls is again, good if not better than HTC devices of yore. Gone are the days of your Pocket PC sounding like the other person is wearing a snorkel and mask and sitting at the bottom of the English Channel. Incoming calls flow loud and clear.

I thought I'd end positively for today and let you know that I've been quite impressed with the battery life on the Touch Pro 2. Any WM device that goes a couple of days without requiring a charger is good in my book. I found I could get 2 days worth of usage from it comfortably. An average day’s use for me consists of up to 20 minutes of calls, 30 minutes of browsing in a reasonably good 3G area and about 50 push emails. I'm not much of a texter but there's usually a couple of SMS in there too. I also use my device as an MP3 player while I'm cycling to work, so there's also an extra 30 minutes of music too, over a set of Bluetooth headphones. In other reviews I've read for the Touch Pro 2 people seem to be disappointed by the battery life. I think for a Pocket PC 2 days from a charge is the minimum. My daily usage pattern is giving me this with the Touch Pro 2. Another box ticked.

Day 4 - Surfing, exploring and snapping As with Day 3, it's actually been a couple of days since my last post so this is effectively Day 6, although it's part 4. So far the Touch Pro 2 has been a bit of a mixed bag for me, but today I'm going to be looking at some of the arenas it was really designed for; surfing, exploring & snapping. I've already raved about the awesome beauty of the screen. It's clarity is superb and its colours bright and vibrant. I've also noted that the aspect ratio may cause compatibility issues with some older software. So why produce an 800x480 screen when 640x480 is the norm? The extra width the widescreen offers means that surfing particularly, and camera use are both improved. Most web pages these days are designed for 1024x768 screen resolution. Most web pages also have advertising banners down the right or left hand side (or even both). This means effectively the content is usually about 800 wide and that's why the Touch Pro 2 excels when it comes to browsing. You can have most websites displayed full width in the landscape view. Nice. That's not all, the Touch Pro 2 has Opera 9.5 preinstalled which is Operas best browser to date. It doesn't end there either. Interestingly, and it could be circumstantial, but when I connect to Wi-Fi my browsing seems more instantaneous. With most devices a fast HSDPA connection is usually very sharp, but the Wi-Fi tends to "stick" a little. I've always just out it down to DNS issues but I experienced less lag than usual from my Wi-Fi based connections with the Touch Pro 2. As I said, this could be just my perception, but that's how I'm seeing it. It's possible either the later WM6.1 or the Wi-Fi may have received a little optimising. Either way, browsing is a joy with the Touch Pro 2.

I harped on a fair while about the lack of OK button on the Touch Pro 2 and the other day. I still look at the device every morning and think "why didn't they just put an ok button and a dpad in there....". The thing that really has me bemused is the inclusion of the hardware zoom control. I've not mentioned this until now but just below the screen is a sliding zoom control. It's just where you'd expect the hardware soft buttons to be if there were any. As far as I can tell, other than zooming in and out, there is no use for this control. I just don't understand why HTC would remove the hardware soft buttons and replace them with this. Crazy. In my opinion a waste of space.

One of the real pities that comes from not having Windows Mobile 6.5 from the outset is that there is no Internet Explorer 6 Mobile on board. From what we've seen so far, coupled with the excellent screen on the Touch Pro 2 that is a real omission. Opera is good, but it just doesn't render a lot of sites correctly, and from what we've heard, IE 6 Mobile would be better at this.

As well as having a bit of a browsing session I had a tinker with the camera this evening too. I snapped several indoor and outdoor shots and was reasonably impressed, considering the device came from HTC. The camera is still not up to scratch compared to some of the dedicated camera phones, there is no flash of any shape or form, not even a LED one. From a quality perspective, although HTC has upped the mega pixel quantity (to 3.5MP) you'd still need a little luck to capture and image of sufficient quality to put it on to some paper and display it in your living room. Any first year photography student will tell you that all the megapixels in the world don't mean squat without a decent lens. I've always thought the addition of a camera is more of an afterthought for HTC but even so, just one device with a good lens would be cool. The camera software seems to have improved quite sufficiently even if the hardware hasn't. The response from booting to focussing is all that bit quicker and slicker. I'm a big fan of dedicated camera buttons simply because when the need comes for a snap, it often it's a quick fire thing, and the time it takes to jump through the menu system means you've missed your moment. Unfortunately HTC have decided not to give us a dedicated camera button with the Touch Pro 2.

The other feature I concentrated on over the past couple of days was the GPS system. The Touch Pro 2 does not come with any navigation software out of the box, but it does have Google maps included in the ROM. I installed the Diamond version of Copilot and the trial version of TomTom Navigator 7. Copilot worked as was expected, with the exception of the stretched screen as we've seen earlier. I was amazed though how quickly the Touch Pro 2 picked up the GPS single. From a cold start in clear skies it was less than a minute. I'm pretty certain my original Touch Pro took much longer than this. Sweet.

One last thing to leave you with tonight. I went to a wedding over the weekend (very cool, excellent band, great rendition of Dakota) and so rather than "risk" the Touch Pro 2 (weddings can get messy! ) I took the Diamond instead. Having the Diamond in my pocket and then picking up the Touch Pro 2 today has really fired home just how heavy and bulky the Touch Pro 2 is. I've taken a few comparison shots so you can see the difference. I've included the old Kaiser (HTC Tytn II) as it's very close to being the same size and weight.

Summary & Conclusion Again, firstly let me apologies for this going from 7 days with the Touch Pro 2 to more like 3 weeks with the Touch Pro 2. Well, this is the final update I'm planning to make, so if you have any questions just ask and I'll see if I can answer them for you. The Touch Pro 2 is possibly the best Windows Mobile device to date. The hardware is beautifully designed and crafted; the software is responsive and intuitive (mainly). It's excellent. That said, it's not perfect and the more familiar you are to Windows Mobile the more likely you are to pick up on it's flaws. For the user new to WM, the large finger responsive TouchFlo UI is friendly and functional as well as being graphically stunning. 90% of tasks can be performed from within TouchFlo and for novices it could be months before you need to access the OS interface directly. Happy days. If however you're a bit of an old hacker like me though you'll immediately push TouchFlo to its limits and be dropped out of the comfort zone that TouchFlo represents most likely during your initial setup. The iPhone-esque hardware design (less is more) than becomes an issue and I'm sure you'll be yearning for the old days of configurable hardware buttons and devices you can operate with one hand. I am a little concerned that physically the Touch Pro 2 owes a little too much to the iPhone for my liking. In fact, if you were to squint a little bit, you could probably fool yourself that it was a product from Apple as opposed to HTC. The colour, size and general shape mimic the iPhone and as I've already mentioned does the lack of hardware controls. You cannot fault the iPhone’s success, but is HTC going in the right direction by taking so many of it's characteristics on board? iPhone satisfaction studies are littered with wants for a smaller device with more hardware controls so are HTC doing themselves any favours here? I'll leave that point for you to mull over for another day.

In the grand scheme of things the Touch Pro 2 is sitting pretty high up the mobile food chain. These days though, were not short of high quality Windows Mobile devices from an increasing amount of sources. The devices are increasingly faster, prettier and easier to use but because the bar has previously been set so high we are seeing smaller increments in performance with each device generation. If you look at the original XDA to the XDA2 to the Universal the differences were enormous. Compare the Touch Pro and the Touch Pro 2 and there is very little improvement from a hardware perspective. The CPU, GPS, camera etc are all identical. You could even argue the trade off between the screen size and device size is more of a choice than an improvement anyway. As I've already stated, the Touch Pro 2 is probably the best WM device to date, but only by a very small margin. If you already have a Touch Pro or an Xperia X1 the Touch Pro 2 is very nice, but it's not going to rock your world. If you are new to Windows Mobile this device is "where it's at". You can feel privileged that your joining the WM family at the best time ever. For us old hackers though I can't help thinking this might be a generation to skip. I think personally it's time to go for a monthly contract for a while and save my upgrade for a snapdragon chip and a new OS.

Device Specifications (from PDADB.net, original link here: Touch Pro 2)

General

Brand: HTC
Manufacturer: High Tech Computer
Hardware-Designer: High Tech Computer
Project_Codename: HTC Rhodium 100
Model ID: RHOD100
Release Date: May, 2009
Predecessor_Model: HTC Touch Pro T7272 (HTC Raphael 100)

Physical Attributes

Dimensions: (width x height x depth): 59.2 x 116 x 16.65 millimetres
2.3 x 4.6 x 0.7 inches
Bounding Volume: 114.3 cubecentimetres
Mass: 178.5 grams (battery included)

Software Environment

Embedded:Operating-System: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Operating:System-Kernel: Windows CE 5.2

Microprocessor, Chipset

CPU-Clock: 528 MHz
CPU: Qualcomm MSM7200A
CPU Core: ARM1136EJ-S
Instruction Set: ARMv6

Memory, Storage capacity

ROM type: Flash EEPROM
ROM:capacity: 512 MiB, including 287.93MiB user-accessible non-volatile storage
RAM-type: mobile DDR SDRAM
RAM capacity: 288 MiB, 188.21MiB accessible

Graphical subsystem

Display Type: color transflective TFT display
Display Color Depth: 16 bit/pixel (65536 scales)
Display Diagonal: 3.6 " (92 millimetres)
Display Resolution: 480 x 800 (384000 pixels)
Viewable Display Size: 1.86 " x 3.11 " (47.33 x 78.89 millimetres)
Dot Pitch: 257.6 pixel/inch (0.09861 millimetre/pixel)
Video out: NTSC/PAL resolution
Proprietary connector

Audio Subsystem

Audio Channel(s): stereo sound
Analog/Digital Converter (Recording):
16 bit nominal quantization 44100 Hz sampling frequency
Digital/Analog Converter
(Playing): 16 bit resolution 44100 Hz holding frequency
Microphone(s): stereo sound
Loudspeaker(s): stereo sound
Audio Output: Proprietary plug

Cellular Phone

Cellular Networks: GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS900, UMTS2100
Cellular Data_Links: CSD, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA
Cellular Antenna: Internal antenna
Call:Alert: 40 -chord melody (polyphonic)
Vibrating:Alert: Supported
Speakerphone : Supported
Phone Controller: Qualcomm MSM7200 (QDSP4000, QDSP5000)
SAR (head)-0: 0.462 W/kg
SAR (body)-0: 1.31 W/kg

Control Peripherals

Positioning Device: Touchscreen
Primary-Keyboard: Slide and tilt QWERTY-type keyboard, 49 keys
Automatic keyboard backlight (upon press of any key)
Directional Pad: Not supported
Scroll Wheel: Not supported

Interfaces

Expansion Interfaces: microSD, microSDHC, TransFlash, SDIO
Supports High Capacity (SD 2.0/HC) memory cards with capacity of up to 32GB
USB: USB 2.0 client, Hi-Speed (480Mbit/s)
USB Series Mini-B (mini-USB) connector
Bluetooth: (802.15): Bluetooth 2.1 Enhanced Data Rate, Internal antenna
Wireless_LAN/Wi-Fi (802.11): IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, 54 Mbit/s
Internal antenna
Infrared Gate: Not supported

Multimedia Broadcast

Analog:Radio: FM radio (87.5-108MHz) with RDS radio reciever
Proprietary headset as antenna
Digital Media Broadcast: Not supported

Satellite Navigation

Built-in GPS:module: Supported
GPS Protocol: NMEA 0183
GPS_Antenna: Internal antenna
Complementary-GPS:Services: Assisted GPS, QuickGPS, Geotagging
Navigation Chip(set): Qualcomm MSM7200A gpsOne

Built-in Digital Camera

Sensor-Type: CMOS sensor
Resolution: 2048 x1536 pixels (3.15MP)
Autofocus_(AF): Supported
Optical:Zoom: 1 x
Macro Mode: Not supported
Built-in Flash: Not supported
Camcorder: 640x480 pixels , 30frame/sec
Recordable Image Formats: JPG
Recordable_Video Formats: 3GPP, 3GPP2, MPEG4

Built-in Secondary Digital Camera

Sensor Type: CMOS sensor
Resolution: 640 x480 pixels (0.31MP)
Camcorder: 352x288pixels
Recordable_Image_Formats: JPG
Recordable Video Formats: 3GPP, MPEG4

Power Supply

Battery Technology: Lithium-ion battery
Battery Build: removable
Battery Capacity: 1500 mAh

Additional Details

Built-in accelerometer: Supported

Additional Features:

* GPRS Class 12
* HSDPA 7.2
* HSUPA 2.0
* HTC TouchFLO 3D (HTC Manila) UI
* HTC Zoom bar
* HTC Straight Talk technology
* Bluetooth stereo audio profile (A2DP
* AVRCP)
* pre-installed Opera 9.5
* World Card Mobile 1.0