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Wednesday June 4, 2008
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The US may have perfectly decent cell-phone networks, but getting the latest handsets for them is still a big problem. Today Windows Mobile device maker HTC announced the Touch Pro, a sliding-keyboard, touch-screen smart phone with an innovative 3D interface and some pretty awesome specs. It's got a VGA screen, 288 MB of RAM, Wi-Fi, GPS, HSDPA 7.2 networking, a 3.2-megapixel camera and a 528 Mhz processor.
Sounds awesome, right? But the Touch Pro being announced now isn't for North America and in fact won't work on our high-speed networks. We'll get a version, but we'll have to wait until "later in 2008."
Rumor sites have said that the version of the Touch Pro we get may be quite different from the one HTC is announcing today. HTC has a habit of introducing some of their products on our CDMA networks, Sprint and Verizon, with different specs than the European versions. That happened, for instance, with the original Touch - Sprint got it several months later than Europe, but at double the processor speed. You win some , you lose some.
This does set up a rollicking Christmas season this year. AT&T and possibly T-Mobile will have the Blackberry Bold, AT&T will have the new iPhone (being announced next week!), and whoever HTC decides to deal with will have the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro with Windows Mobile. It's a good year for smart phones.
For the full skinny, check out HTC's site.
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