HTC Touch PRO T7272 Unlocked Smartphone - International Version (Black) From:HTC
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Brand: HTC
EAN: 4710937324884
Label: HTC
Manufacturer: HTC
Model: Touch PRO T7272
Publisher: HTC
Studio: HTC
Feature:
- Quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz HSDPA/WCDMA: 900/2100 MHz
- TouchFLO 3D Touch-sensitive navigation control, 2.8" VGA display
- GPS and A-GPS ready, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
- Main camera: 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus
- WM 6.1 Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 MHz Memory, ROM: 512 MB, RAM 288MB
Product Description:
The HTC Touch ProTM brings together elegant touch screen response with the direct precision of keyboard entry... leaving out nothing to deliver a powerhouse communication tool in a beautiful, compact design.
The 2.8-inch VGA touch screen provides four times the resolution of most smart devices, making email, documents and web pages sharper and easier to work with than ever before.
HTCs rich, touch-responsive interface, TouchFLO 3D, provides a stunningly intuitive way to zip through common tasks like messaging, calendar checks or making calls. Delve a little deeper to find that playing media files, searching for contacts and surfing the web are also responsive to your touch.
The web browser puts the full Internet in the palm of your hand. Websites look just like they do on a PC, and TouchFLO 3D makes it easy to pan around and zoom in on exactly the information youre looking for. If you need a wide screen, simply tilt the Touch Pro sideways and the page switches to landscape view.
Slide out the 5-row QWERTY keyboard to make light work of typing-intensive tasks like composing email or working on Microsoft Office® documents... perfect for when your day takes a serious turn.
High speed connectivity will keep you in touch with colleagues and contacts wherever you are. Integrated GPS can be used with maps software for a full turn-by-turn satellite navigation experience.
Built-in Wi-Fi and TV-out functionality mean you can hook up to the local wireless hot spot to surf, then deliver the perfect PowerPoint® presentation without a laptop in sight.
A beautiful angle on business, the HTC Touch Pro introduces effortless presence to enterprise-standard communications.
Customer Reviews:
 A flawed masterpiece, 2008-11-23
The following review is for the XDA Serra, O2's UK version of the HTC Touch Pro (also known as the Raphael, T Mobile MDA Vario IV, AT&T Fuze and Sprint Touch Pro).
This is my third O2 XDA model - I`ve previously used the XDA Mini S (aka HTC Wizard/Prodigy, K-Jam, MDA Vario) and XDA Graphite (aka ASUS Jupiter) - and probably my 6th or 7th Windows CE/Mobile device. I've grown fond of the XDA Mini S but recall that the phone was a complete dog until O2 issued a major ROM upgrade. I got the XDA Graphite on a free O2 upgrade as a compact, 3G-enabled replacement for the Mini S, but the battery life was so abysmal I never really used it in anger.
In looking for a replacement for the XDA Mini S, I had the following criteria in mind;
* HSDPA capable
* Good touch screen quality
* Ideally one-handed operation
* Slide-out QWERTY keyboard
* Preferably Windows Mobile 6.1 based (I'm wedded to a number of Windows Mobile applications including Outlook mobile, Ilium eWallet, Memory Map and Tom Tom Navigator)
* Good camera quality a nice-to-have but not paramount
* Available on an O2 UK Tariff (I wasn't prepared to pay a SIM-free price).
I must confess to a (possibly irrational) antipathy to all things Apple so didn't consider the iPhone, though I have no doubt that the iPhone is probably more user-friendly. The HTC Touch Pro is categorically not an "iPhone killer" (though the newer HTC Touch HD may well be).
The truth is, all of HTC's smartphone offerings have been exercises in managed expectation. They promise so much on paper but so often fail to deliver in terms of practicality. The Touch Pro is, along with the Touch HD, by far the best phone HTC have ever produced, but it still has some frustrating flaws. I will admit that in the first few days of having received the XDA Serra I found the Touch Flo interface and GPS performance so frustrating that I seriously considered returning it to O2, but having persevered for a fortnight or so I am now much happier.
Many of the phone's flaws could be resolved with improved software, and there are very active Windows Mobile and HTC development communities on the web. However, poor GPS performance and the almost useless Navigation joystick are hardware limitations that you'll have to learn to live with.
So far, this is how the pros and cons stack up for me:
Pros:
1. Size, form factor and build quality.
2. Excellent screen resolution (640x480) and quality. Visibility in sunshine is very good.
3. Excellent slide out keyboard - far and away the best available.
4. Excellent phone sound quality.
5. Good 3G (HSDPA), Bluetooth and FM Radio performance.
6. Touch Flo interface makes one-handed operation feasible but gestures take some getting used to. Helps to have small fingers.
7. Accepts up to 16GB microSD SDHC memory cards (though the need to remove the back cover to insert the memory card is seen as a disadvantage by some - personally I prefer it this way)
8. Magnetic stylus is less likely to drop out.
9. Uses standard mini USB connector for sync and charge.
10. Can charge from PC USB connection.
11. As with all Windows Mobile devices, syncing with PC via Activesync is very easy.
12. Huge variety of freeware and shareware available for the Windows Mobile platform, including some alternatives to the Touch Flo interface (mainly still in beta but very promising).
13. Teeter game - which uses the phone's built-in G-sensor - is great fun.
14. Very chic, for those who care about such things.
Cons:
1. Very expensive SIM-free.
2. "Joystick" functionality on central Navigation button is almost completely unusable and is - in my opinion - a major design flaw.
3. Endurance with standard 1340mAh battery not great (especially if all radio options are enabled) but probably no worse than other phones in this class. Higher capacity (but bulkier) 1800mAh battery packs are available. I personally haven't found battery life to be an issue.
4. 3.2MP camera is a big improvement over earlier HTC models but is outclassed by the latest Sony, Nokia and Samsung camera phones. The LED camera flash is barely adequate in low light. If you're looking for a digital compact camera replacement this is not the phone for you.
5. Flaky Wi-Fi - needs to be set to `maximum performance' (at the expense of battery life) to get decent reception.
6. Built-in GPS is very temperamental. Initial lock can take anywhere between 5 and 30 minutes, though once lock is acquired, performance is OK in open ground. Urban reception is poor and the Assisted GPS function (which is disabled by default on the XDA Serra) doesn't appear to improve matters significantly. There are some performance enhancing hacks recommended on various HTC forums, but the phone will never be a match for the latest SiRF handhelds (such as the Garmin eTrex Vista, which has incredible urban performance) and I imagine many people will find the internal GPS unusable in practice.
Note that you can always use an external Bluetooth GPS adapter such as the excellent Emtac BTGPS II or the one provided with some versions of Tom Tom Navigator.
7. The phone has fewer configurable hardware buttons on the front panel than earlier HTC models, which may be a disadvantage for applications that are not able to exploit Touch Flo gestures.
8. Touch Flo interface a bit sluggish at times, but may be improved with some registry tweaking (Google the XDA Developers Forum, at your own risk). People who are happy to use a stylus will probably wish to disable the Touch Flo interface altogether.
9. Touch Flo interface not always as intuitive as it could be, and it can't be customised (at least not without registry hacks). In particular, switching from portrait to landscape mode sometimes means the current application loses focus and has to be restored from the Start menu. This may improve in later versions of the software.
10. Screen is blanked when an incoming call is accepted. This makes sense in terms of battery efficiency and eliminating the risk of accidentally activating the touch screen with your ear (something I found very irritating with the XDA Mini S), but it means you need to press the power button to wake up the screen if you want to be able to access the phone keypad during a call - for instance, if you're having to press options for those incredibly annoying interactive voice response lines.
11. Pressure needed for some touch screen gestures means a screen protector is advisable (one is provided in the box). The fact that the screen is flush with the surface makes applying screen protectors much easier.
12. No built in headphone socket - needs special USB-to-jack adapter (a handy remote-control adapter with a standard 3.5mm jack is provided in the box).
13. Cannot sync/charge and use headphone adapter at the same time using the adapter provided, though it is possible to buy third party adapters for around £20 which do allow this.
14. Some relatively minor stability issues which will probably improve after the next ROM upgrade - expect to have to perform a soft-reset at least once a month.
If you don't need the slide-out keyboard, I'd strongly recommend the HTC Touch HD (which has recently topped PC Pro's smartphone A-List).
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