The HTC Touch HD has arrived
The HTC Touch appeared on HTC’s website on Monday in glorious fashion and then was abruptly pulled. Don’t despair if you missed its brief appearance as this sleek and sexy phone will make its official debut on September 16th. Boo-Ya! No more waiting as we got the dirt on it. Hit the jump for all the specs, and everything you want to know!
- Processor Qualcomm® MSM 7201A™ 528 MHz
- Operating System Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
- Memory ROM: 512 MB; RAM: 288 MB
- Dimensions 115 mm x 62.8 mm x 12 mm (4.35 in x 2.5 in x 0.47 in)
- Weight 146.4 grams (5.164 ounces) with battery
- Display 3.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with 480 x 800 WVGA resolution
- Network HSDPA/WCDMA:Europe/Asia: 900/2100 MHz; Up to 2 Mbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds
- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:850/900/1800/1900 MHz (Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent.)
- Device Control HTC TouchFLO™ 3D; Touch-sensitive front panel buttons
- GPS GPS and A-GPS ready
- Connectivity Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for wireless stereo headsets
- Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g
- HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB 2.0)
- Camera
- Main camera: 5 megapixel color camera with auto focus
- Second camera: VGA CMOS color camera
- Audio Built-in 3.5 mm audio jack, microphone, speaker, and FM radio
- Ring tone formats: AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, QCP, MP3, WMA, WAV;40 polyphonic and standard MIDI format 0 and 1 (SMF)/SP MIDI
- Battery: Rechargeable Lithium-ion or Lithium-ion polymer battery. Capacity: 1350 mAh
- Talk time:Up to 390 minutes for WCDMA; Up to 310 minutes for GSM
- Standby time:Up to 450 hours for WCDMA; Up to 390 hours for GSM
- Video call time: Up to 120 minutes (The above are subject to network and phone usage.)
- Expansion Slot microSD™ memory card (SDHC™ capable)
- AC Adapter Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60 Hz
- DC output: 5V and 1A
Whew, is that enough info to satisfy your craving for a least a little bit? No pricing mentioned but it will be available across major European carriers in Q4 2008 and then in other global markets shortly following. Sweet handset but not soon enough for our liking. We want to get our grubby little mits on this one now!
HTC took their time to make iPhone killer…
I wonder why I don’t hear “iPhone killer” from every source that sees this thing – identical (almost) sizes, similar but superiod HD screen, nice-looking user interface, superior camera, 3.5mm on board. It only lacks 32gb memory but we’ll see microSD reach that size soon. Basically its superior to iPhone 3G.
If they have same price in Europe and USA, iPhone 3G 8gb is busted.
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When can we expect this beauty with the U.S. 3G bands…I got so excited about this device, only to find out I won’t be able to use the 3G part of it.
this does look like its worth waiting for…
UMPC portal dot com has a quick impression of it.. not as glowing.. great site tho…but I will now wait to upgrade my 1st gen iPhone, until this unit has been thoroughly reviewed..
How exactly does this device handle text input. I know the Touch Pro has a slide out keyboard, but it doesn’t look like this does (no keyboard in the gallery or in the specs). If it is a on screen keyboard, how have they implemented it, because the standard on-screen keyboard on Windows Mobile devices is pretty terrible.
If only it didn’t have windows mobile on it… like a previous poster said… I will NEVER touch a phone with windows mobile on it. What a horrible phone OS.
If the keyboard is the same as the Diamond keyboard, it is very good indeed. I have used the TyTN for the last 2 years with keyboard and when I switched to Diamond, I really like it. Sure onscreen keyboard can never be as good as a hardware keyboard. But the Diamond keyboard comes very close.
I’d love AWS support on something like this or a Touch Pro HD. Maybe one day, hehe. Too bad we all can’t use the same wcdma bands, but there’s a quad-band wcdma chipset just around the corner if I read correctly
xman said: “what’s a “maroon”???
if you’re going to call people names, at least get it right…LOL
Someone has never watched Looney Tunes
Interesting how you jab on iFanbois and then go on to say that you spend 10% of your time in task manager, clearing stuff out.
Ironic, actually. ;o)
It’s “you’re a moron,” not “your a moron,” moron.
the lame part is that it is supposedly 65k colors. What good is this hd screen with colors i had on my nokia over 6 years ago? give me that apple 16.7 million color screen at lower resolutions. I just want a touchscreen version of the epson portables on a phone. Resolution is nice but colors matter more to me.
I used to work in a Sprint call center. I guarantee that if/when this phone comes to the US it goes straight to Sprint and then 2-3 months later will spill out to Alltel/Verizon and At&t. I knew about the Diamond/Pro back in April or May 08 before they came out.