‘Business-focused’ HTC Touch Pro2 out in June

The HTC Touch Pro2 will be available from 12 June in the UK - and HTC is pushing the phone's business benefits.

Mobile phone retailer Expansys updated a pre-order page for the HTC Touch Pro2, now showing an expected release date of 12 June.

At London’s Wireless and Mobile show, HTC Europe’s product manager Philip Blair described how the Touch Pro2 “integrated key experiences” of an enterprise user with Windows Mobile.

He described how a business user could receive email with the Touch Pro2, and speak to the email sender just by pressing a button, without having to get back into their phone contacts or other emails.

During the call, the user could conference users in who were CC’d to the email with another press of a button.

Blair also demonstrated how the Touch Pro2 would deal with conference reminders, which often a needed a user to note down phone numbers and PINs with pen and paper. Using the handset, those numbers would be extracted from the calendar through synchronisation.

He said: “It’ll ask me to put in my PIN number. If I move the device away from me the sensor will recognise it has done this and realise that I want to have a look at [the PIN].

“It automatically turns the backlight on and the PIN number has been pulled out as well,” he said.

The device could also be used to take a conference call on a desk in the office, simply by “turning it upside down” as it has a dual speaker and microphone.

Blair also revealed details about its upcoming ‘HTC Snap’ BlackBerry-style phone, and one of its new features in ‘Inner Circle’, where emails of priority users would rise to the top for quick access.

He said: “With a simple touch I can prioritise emails. There is a very limited amount of people that I want to be disturbed by, such as my boss or critical customers.”

Blair was also pressed about HTC’s plan for possible Android enabled enterprise handsets.

He said that although HTC had worked hard with Google on Android, so far it was all about consumer ‘Google experiences’ in what had been released so far.

However, because it is an "open" platform, Blair said that there was definite potential in enterprise Android development.

But that could take some time: “Personally, right now, I feel that is outside the consumer experiences that Google gives,” he added.

Click here to read our first look review of the HTC Touch Pro2.

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