HTC have announced their third touchscreen cell phone, the Touch Cruise (formally known as the ‘Polaris’) a 3G Windows Mobile 6 powered mobile device which comes with integral GPS, mapping supplied by none other than Tom Tom and their finger friendly TouchFlow navigational interface.The Touch Cruise, which is powered by a 400MHz CPU and based the Qualcomm 7200 chip set, and is due to become available later this month as an unlocked device in Europe, features 128MB of internal memory (which can be supplemented with Micro SD cards), a 2.8” 240 x 320 resolution touchscreen, a 3 megapixel rear mounted camera supplemented by a smaller, front mounted camera for video calling, 3.6Mb/s 3G HSDPA connectivity and integral Wi-Fi.
Details at the time of writing are fairly scant, with unit pricing and full specifications presently unavailable, though we can only hope that this latest offering from HTC (this is their third touchscreen smart phone) receives a somewhat warmer welcome than their previous models which, though we have no first hand experience, failed to impress many reviewers.
Rest assured that we’ll post further details concerning HTC’s up and coming Touch Cruise the moment they become available.
Update: As promised, here’s the full feature set hot off the presses…
- General Network: HSDPA / GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- Size: 110 x 58 x 15.5 mm
- Weight: 130 g
- Display Type: TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
- Size: 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches
- Navigational Features: TouchFLO finger swipe navigation, Handwriting recognition, 4-way navigation wheel
- Ringtones Type: Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3, AAC
- Vibration: Yes
- Card Slots: microSD (TransFlash), SD 2.0 compatible
- Memory: 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM
- Processor: Qualcomm MSM7200, 400 MHz processor
- Data: GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
- HSCSD: No
- EDGE: Yes
- 3G: HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
- WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
- Bluetooth: Yes, v2.0
- Infrared Port: No
- USB: Yes, miniUSB
- Features OS: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
- Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (PocketIE)
- Camera: 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus, video; secondary VGA videocall camera
- Notable Features:
Built-in GPS receiver
TomTom maps
Pocket Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PDF viewer)
Java MIDP 2.0
FM radio
Voice memo
MP3/AAC/AAC+/WMA/WAV/AMR-NB player
Video/audio album - Built-in handsfree
- Battery: Standard battery, Li-Ion 1350 mAh
- Stand-by: Up to 450 hours
- Talk Time: Up to 7 hours
- [Source | RegHardware]
