Today in Taiwan HTC announced the long-rumored, the QWERTY slider sibling of the recently-unveiled Touch Diamond. HTC’s going back to what they do best—Windows Mobile phones with slide-out QWERTY keyboards—with the HTC Touch Pro, also known as the HTC Raphael. The Touch Pro sports HTC’s shiny new TouchFLO 3D user interface extensions and home screen. TouchFLO 3D provides users with a high-gloss 3D animated user experience that is backed up with across the board tweaks to make regular applications more finger friendly, so that the Touch Pro should be easily usable with either one hand or two.
The Touch Pro runs version 6.1 of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Professional operating system, and comes equipped with over 256MB of application RAM and a respectable 512MB of internal flash storage space. A SD 2.0 compatible microSD card slot means that users can add even more storage capacity with 8GB or, in the future, 16GB microSD cards. other features of note on the Touch Pro include GPS and WiFi support
HTC Touch Pro features a hefty 1350mAh battery allowing for up to 8 hours of talk time (which is much larger than the HTC Diamond), 2.8-inch VGA touch screen and 3.2-megapixel camera equipped with video calling. The first batch of devices will be Europe-bound in “late summer” with 900 / 2100MHz 3G alongside the quadband GSM and EDGE; North and Latin American versions are promised for later in the year.
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