HTC, the Taiwanese manufacturer of Windows Mobile smartphones and Pocket PCs, announced that it has signed an agreement with KDDI in order to bring HTC handsets to customers from across Japan. HTC has been trying eagerly to penetrate the Japanese market since 2005, and, after 3 years of hard work, the brand finally is seeing the effort pay off, with KDDI deciding to add HTC Touch Pro series smartphones to its lineup starting April. The newly launched smartphone is among HTC’s well-known HTC Diamond family, which adopts a touch screen and a Qwerty keypad, very suitable for commercial use. It’s impossible not to be amazed by the display, although it’s not the highest resolution one out there. It feels good in the hand and is smaller than most people would think when they see the product photo. HTC did a good job with the industrial design, but also with the software customization that sit on top of Windows Mobile, making it more finger-friendly. The Touch Pro runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and brings features like: a 2.8 inch TFT touchscreen display with a VGA (480 x 640) resolution, accelerometer, Wi-Fi, full HTML browser, built-in GPS, a 3.2 Megapixel camera, TV out and so on. KDDI announced that they would be unveiling the smart phone at CEATEC, Japan’s largest electronics products exhibition, September 28-October, this year. However, commercial sales of the E30HT, are slated for spring 2009.
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