HTC's got an all-new version of its GPS-centric
Touch Cruise handset, with a thinner, slicker design and a new HTC Footprints app for integrating that location data with photos and notes. Of course, the phone doubles as a traditional in-car navigation system, cradle included, with GPS and a-GPS, but there's plenty else to love here, including quad band GSM, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, a microSD slot and a 3.2 megapixel camera. The 2.8-inch QVGA screen betrays this phone's consumer-bent, but the truly notable functionality here is actually in the software: HTC Footprints takes geotagging a step further, allowing to to take notes and audio clips and embed them in a "postcard" of sorts, all still tied to that GPS location data -- the cards are even auto-named by their location. Footprints also works outdoors and indoors, which isn't quite explained, but we're guessing it just remembers where you were when you lost a signal. There's a world-friendly WCDMA / HSPA 900 / 2100MHz version, of course, but us North Americans will be getting the 850 / 1900MHz flavor as a unlocked handset for $500 to $600 in Q2. Check out the read links below for the full PR and some early hands-ons, and there's video after the break.
[Via
Phone Scoop; thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Read - HTC PR
Read - Touch Cruise hands-on (in Russian)
Read - Touch Cruise hands-on (in English)
posted Jan 22nd 2009 9:18AM
Maybe it's just me, bu HTC can make a damn good phone almost as if it were their job....
That's because it is their job and they do it well. My HTC touch HD still makes every iPhone3G owner sick with envy
this should be the g2
sounded pretty sweet, until you mentioned QVGA
So true.
I love the look... wish it wasn't Windows Mobile though. =/
With the TouchFlo 3D (or Samsung's Touch Wiz) in top of it Win mobile is not anymore the pain it used to be. You should try it, even its mommy won't recognize it.
Not a big fan of HTC. I used to own their C730 and Tilt phones. Both phones were very hard to type and Tilt is heavy. Moreover, if you have windows mobile running as the main O/S, it just sucks big time.
i had the kaiser, but i thought it was best phone to type with. i made full use of word mobile.
i definitely read that as HTC debuts new Tom Cruise phone
The devices you're talking about belong to a long gone past and used old versions of both win mobile and touch flo, and still for their day and age they held their own.
The new HTC touch HD with its touch flo 3D it' s something very different, the only phone that can be compared to it is the Samsung omnia thanks to its Touch Wiz stuff; because on its own win mobile , even 6.1, stil sux big time. 6.5 has just been announced though.