HTC Touch Pro2 is A Touch of Class


What do you do with a touchscreen smartphone that is already chock-full of features? Add a slide-out Qwerty keyboard, of course. HTC’s Pro2 – about the size of a pack of playing cards with 2cm sticking out on top – works perfectly well as a touchscreen phone but has a keyboard tucked away.

The 3.7-inch 480 x 800 pixel touchscreen – one of the largest in the business – is bigger and more detailed than those on the iPhone 3G S and Nokia N97. The LCD dominates the face of the phone with space left for only the zoom bar – a touch strip that allows you to enlarge or shrink text or photos with the slide of a finger – and four hard keys. I enjoyed using the bright, sharply detailed touchscreen. I am always drawn to thumb through my e-mail messages. It felt like I was flicking through a stack of cards.

However, what road warriors want is a keyboard. Touchscreens are dandy for short bursts of typing but nothing beats the tactile feedback of a keyboard for note taking. The Pro2 does not disappoint. A five-row Qwerty keyboard stays hidden until it is slid out from under the phone. The keys are raised and spaced apart for thumb typist to type at a brisk pace.

The star feature of the Pro2 is its conference call ability. Tick the persons from your contact list to add to your conference call. Their faces – you can add photos to your contacts – are lined up in a row on the phone screen like in a conference room. Tap each icon to connect with a person to add him to the call. During the call, you can go into a private conversation with one party while everyone else is placed on hold.

Flip the phone over, place it on the table and it automatically becomes a conference speaker phone with a loud and clear speaker and noise-cancelling microphones. This is quite a feat considering how mechanically complex this phone is. All this goodness comes at a price – weight and bulk. At 186g, the Pro2 is a heavyweight.

Source from Tan Chong Yaw

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