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MWC 09: First look at the HTC Touch Pro2

By Maggie Holland, 18 Feb 2009

A sneaky peak at yet another newly announced smartphone. This time it’s the HTC Touch Pro2’s turn in the spotlight.

The HTC Touch Pro2 also features HTC’s Push Internet technology. We didn’t get time to take this aspect of the device for a test drive, although HTC claims that the technology alleviates slow downloading and rendering of mobile web pages on a mobile phone. Again, yet another potential boon for the business community.

Battery life is pretty good, with talk time being quoted as up to 419 minutes. In standby, the Touch Pro2 offers up to 348 hours.

All in all, the HTC Touch Pro2 is not a device for the light pocketed among us. Those who want comfort over style or substance may shy away from this fairly hefty device. However, others may be attracted to the fact that it packs a fair bit of business acumen and isn’t likely to break as soon as you drop it or open it more than once.

Take a look at the hands-on video preview below filmed by our good friends over at sister title Know Your Mobile.

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By Ip_appud0f28d5e7 on Thursday Feb 19

It will want to be better that the original Touch Pro

Nearly everything about the original Touch Pro was good. Nearly! Unfortunately, when it rings, the whole screen activates. Unless the phone is in your hand, chances are that you will brush the screen against something while taking it out of your pocket, pouch or bag to answer it. As soon as this happens, the call is lost. As I use my Touch Pro as a key business contact point, this means that my customers get a hang-up instead of an answer most of the time. The Touch Pro is not alone in this problem as a colleague has a Touch Diamond that suffers the same glitch. When I contacted HTC, I was simply told there is no fix for this problem available. It shouldn't be too hard to isolate the touch screen from the call answering button. After all, other smart phones manage to have them separate. But it is clearly too much for HTC to make the effort. My phone cost me $1000 Aus and I now have to make the most of it for at least 2 years. But I won't be going near HTC again. Perhaps HTC has managed to solve this problem in the Touch Pro 2. If they havem then they own it to those of us who purchased the original Touch Pro to make the problem fix available gratis!

By BeaconIntel on Friday May 22