The HTC Touch Pro 2 has hit the market and is making waves. The Nokia N97 finally has competition. This is one phone which looks just as cool as it is functional. From the outside, it looks all silvery with accents of darker, bold colors. Up the front, there is shiny strip for a border. Incidentally, the battery cover itself makes up the back of the phone. This part is made of inexpensive plastic in a silver finish. The battery cover is way too sensitive and could come loose with the slightest manhandling. But the super stylish look of the front more than makes up for whatever faults you can find with the back.
Let’s get next to the display. To put it in one word, let’s use brilliant. Below the wide screen comes a touch sensitive zoom bar. This part is set with four buttons- the answer key, the menu button, the back button and the end key. The end key can also be used to lock the keypad at any time.
The 3.2 mega pixel camera is located at the back. The microphone and volume controlling devices are also set in the back. You will find the on and off button on top of the phone.
At 175 grams, the HTC Touch Pro 2 phone is surprisingly light for its not so small size (you can’t stuff it into your shirt front pocket). Needless to say, you get GSM, GPRS, EDGE and more by way of connectivity on this phone.
All usual features of smartphones are incorporated into this phone too. You get FM radio, Bluetooth, expandable memory and a microSD card and a 1500mAH battery, so you get autonomy of four hundred and nineteen minutes of talk time or three hundred and forty eight hours of standby time.
Users have mixed feelings about this phone. Some find the absence of an OK button the beginning of a nightmarish experience with the phone. Navigating through the drop down menu is difficult, and could have been designed for more simplistic use.
The keyboard too has had mixed responses from the target audience. Some find it too delicate and too soft, maybe even somewhat squashy. The buttons are comfortably large.
But the real rave reviews have been due to the superb screen- it really is a work of art. It goes gently fading from on to off, rather than suddenly black from bright as is common with most other high end mobile phones. When you are in the middle of a call and have switched to handset mode, the phone will detect that it has been pressed to your ear and will make the screen go black. When you finish your call and remove it from your ear, it lights up again.
Volume levels leave no room for complain. You can take incoming calls and listen to what the caller has to say loud and clear.
Internet connectivity is terrific. Even the largest web pages take very little time to load. All this comes for a price, though. The phone can be yours for as much as eight hundred dollars, no less.
