By Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net
MAKATI City, Philippines — Just three months after releasing the HTC Touch Diamond in the Philippines, mobile handset manufacturer HTC launched its Touch Pro, the company’s most powerful business mobile phone yet.
The Touch Pro is the fourth generation of the HTC Touch series and is very similar to the Touch Diamond with the addition of a sliding QWERTY keyboard and a global positioning system (GPS).
The Touch Pro also has a much improved Touch FLO 3D, the touch screen interface that is unique to the HTC Touch series.
The Touch Pro shares several similarities to the Touch Diamond, such as a 2.8-inch screen, 3.2 megapixel camera, and Qualcomm 528 megahertz processor.
Just like the Touch Diamond, the Touch Pro also has quadband cellular network capability, EDGE, UMTS, and HSDPA. It also runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1.
Touch Pro, however, has bigger RAM (288 MB compared to just 192 MB for the Touch Diamond, including a microSDHC memory card slot), longer battery life, an integrated GPS antenna and a wireless fidelity antenna.
Even with the inclusion of a sliding QWERTY keyboard, the Touch Pro is only slightly heavier than the Touch Diamond at only 165 grams.
At P50,800 the HTC Touch Pro is also more expensive than the Touch Diamond, which only cost P42,000 when it was launched in the Philippines in June. It is primarily targeted at business users since it also includes several business applications such as Internet Explorer Mobile, Opera Browser, and Microsoft Office Mobile.
Despite the higher price, HTC Southeast Asia Managing Director Kevin Hou is confident that the new HTC Touch Pro will sell in the Philippines, especially as more business users choose handsets with touch screen interfaces.
Hou said that the entry of touch screen mobile phones have enabled the development of more efficient user interfaces and more interactive applications.
Hou is optimistic that the business for mid-level to high-end business phones will continue to grow as phones become more like computers.
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Jose
Hi the touch diamond comes out in September, but how about the touch diamond pro, when is this one out ?
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