HTC Touch Dual
Last Update: Review by TigerTV (22 October’08)
HTC Touch Dual is a smart phone features Discover TouchFLO™, a revolutionary touch-screen technology that allows finger-touch scrolling, panning and photo zooming, Innovative 3D touch cube interface, Slide-out 20-key keyboard , Worldwide connectivity (HSDPA, 3G, and GPRS/EDGE/GSM), Windows Mobile® 6 Professional with Direct Push Outlook® e-mail, 2 megapixel camera and a 2.6″ TFT-LCD with backlight LED touch-sensitive screen.
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HTC Touch Dual Reviews
BrightHand reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes:
“the Dual doesn’t really offer anything to make itself stand out. With the upcoming models from Apple, Samsung, and even HTC itself that offer better screens, GPS, and Wi-Fi, the Dual’s spec sheet looks decidedly unimpressive….A model which fails to stand out on performance, features, or usability. It’s not terrible, but the Dual doesn’t have anything that makes it particularly wonderful, either.”
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InfoSync reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes:
“Pros: Best HTC Touch we’ve seen, with SureType keyboard. Easy tethered modem support. Calls sound good, nice address book features. Cons: Keys a bit rickety. Lacks IM clients. Still not as slick or responsive as the iPhone.”
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MobileTechReview reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes:
“With double the memory, we didn’t find ourselves constantly using HTC’s handy task manager to kill programs. There’s 128 megs of RAM on-board and 256 megs of flash storage. That’s more than enough memory to leave several large programs running and quite a lot of room to install programs and store data.”
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PC World reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes:
“Thankfully, some of the Touch Dual’s design changes were for the better. For one thing, the MicroSD Card slot is now on the bottom-left side of the device. Popping in new cards is much easier–good news for anybody with loads of files…The phone runs Windows Mobile 6.1, an incremental improvement over the Touch’s Windows Mobile 6.0. It also comes with a slightly tweaked TouchFLO 3D interface.”
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CNET reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes:
“The good: The HTC Touch Dual features a slide-out 20-key QWERTY keyboard. It’s also the first smartphone to ship with Windows Mobile 6.1 in the States and supports HSDPA and Bluetooth 2.0. The bad: The Touch Dual lacks Wi-Fi and GPS. There’s no standard audio jack, and it’s pricey.”
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PC Authority reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes:
“As usual, HTC has provided enhancements, allowing more productive use of the touchscreen. In particular, there are options for launching programs, viewing and zooming images and navigating the contacts list. But when it comes to writing emails or sending texts, you’re still dumped into the usual Windows Mobile 6 apps. The new keyboard helps, and it’s quite an engineering feat to include it for just an additional 2mm of thickness, but it exposes the limitations of a device with interface tweaks layered over the top of something originally designed for stylus operation.”
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Mobileburn reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes:
“Something also improved from the original Touch is battery life. While this wasn’t necessarily bad with the original, the Dual pushes the figures to around five days life with regular usage, and 6 hours talk time on GSM networks…It goes without saying that the Contact application in the HTC Touch Dual, with Windows Mobile 6 in the background, is well featured and robust. With full synchronization with Microsoft Outlook and a bevy of supported data, including multiple home and work numbers and addresses, anniversaries, spouse details, assistant details, and all the usual details as well. ”
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CNET Australia reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes:
“Web browsing is a joy with HSDPA speed behind it, although, Internet Explorer Mobile is far from the best or fastest Mobile Web browser. Of course, the beauty of Windows Mobile is the ability to hunt down useful applications online and install them as you would on a PC. Once we had Opera Mobile installed we were much happier, and we grabbed Google Maps while we were at it…During our tests we saw just over four days during charge cycles with moderate use of calls, messaging and Web browsing.”
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Digital Trends reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes:
“Highs: Lightweight; multimedia friendly; easy keyboard to use. Lows: Tricky touchscreen; average music capabilities; too many options…The HTC Dual Touch is a good looking, adaptable phone that is unlike anything on the market. Practical users will be annoyed with the overbearing options and abundant functions, but hardcore phone lovers will be happy to discover all its little tricks.”
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PC Pro reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes:
“For business people in need of push email and Exchange integration the keypad turns what was a good start into a practical business tool. And it’s a nice bonus that it still manages to be one of the sleekest and sexiest Windows Mobile devices around.”
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Pocket-Lint reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes:
“The device also sports a second camera on the front top right of the case, allowing for video calls. Like the original, the back of the device has a 2 megapixel camera for normal shots and videos. In use, we found the picture quality to be surprisingly good for a 2 megapixel device…The good: 3G, slide out keyboard, display. The bad: No Wi-Fi, keys are a little small ”
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CNET UK reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes:
“Having used the original Touch for quite some time, there’s no doubt that when it came to dialling and texting, a mechanical keypad would have come in very handy — enter the Dual’s slide-out Qwerty keypad. It works well and is far easier to press with your fingers than any current Windows Mobile on-screen keypad. ”
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IT Reviews reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes:
“That TouchFLO business is something you’ll either like or loathe, and it is one of several ways HTC has tried to add value to what Microsoft provides in Windows Mobile 6. If you drag a finger from the bottom of the screen upwards when the Today screen is showing, you are dropped into a new screen showing either multimedia services, applications, or speed dial photo contacts. You switch between the three by dragging a finger left or right along the screen. ”
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HTC Touch Dual Press Release
HTC Touch Cruise Brings Personal GPS Navigation to the HTC Touch Family
LONDON — November 12 2007 – HTC Corp. (TAIEX: 2498; “HTC”), the world’s leading provider of Microsoft Windows Mobile® smart devices, today launched the HTC Touch Cruise™, the third member of the HTC Touch product family and the first to feature built-in GPS for personal navigation. Building on the popularity of the HTC Touch™ and the HTC Touch Dual™, the Touch Cruise also includes 3G-HSDPA wireless connectivity.
Users on the move will easily be able to interact with the HTC Touch Cruise’s navigation functionality and can take advantage of HTC’s auto TouchFLO™ technology, which enhances finger touch scrolling and browsing of Web pages, documents, messages and contact lists, controlled by simply sweeping a finger across the screen. TouchFLO also offers the ability to view photos and photo slideshows using on-screen controls and to zoom and rotate images with only one hand.
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