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Windows-Based iPhone Rival for Business Users

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the anything-you-can-do-i-can-do-too dept.

MsManhattan writes "High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) has unveiled a touch-screen mobile device that offers many of the same features as the iPhone but with an emphasis on business applications vs. entertainment value. The HTC Touch is based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 Professional OS and features a 2.8-inch touch screen offering access to emails, contacts and appointments. But unlike the iPhone, which will feature large internal flash memory capacity for music and movie storage, the HTC Touch offers a microSD drive, and a 1G-byte microSD card comes with the handset."

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  1. Picture by pubjames · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here you go

  2. Re:Charge! by nametaken · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'll start. My HTC (cingular 8525) is a sliding-keyboard touchscreen phone on WM5. The biggest drawback is that they're monsters, and they're too delicate. For both those reasons, I never put my phone in my pocket, I have to carry it around.

    It's so bad, I actually unlocked my old Razr so I'd have something to take out with me at night.

  3. Actual product link: by EnglishTim · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.htctouch.com/

    To be honest, you might as well say all Windows Mobile based phones are iPhone rivals. I would prefer to say it's just a competitor in the smartphone space, as iPhone will be when it arrives.

    I own an earlier HTC WM5 smartphone model, and I'm guessing that despite having a new swish frontend, it'll still be not quite as nice to use as the iPhone will be. However, the big draw is that being Windows Mobile based, you'll be able to run any software you want on it without having to go through Apple, unlike the iPhone.

  4. Re:Pictures! by ajanp · · Score: 4, Informative

    Random Pics: HTC Touch iPHONE

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  5. Re:Price ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    It costs 354.95 GBP SIM-free, or nothing with a 12 month / 45 GBP contract. As per www.expansys.com

  6. QVGA! by ricklow · · Score: 4, Informative

    The screen resolution of the HTC device is only QVGA: 320 x 240. The iPhone is 320 x 480 (half VGA). This is a major difference in usability.

    After trying to switch from a Palm TX (320 x 480) to a Windows Mobile QVGA PDA, one thing that stopped me was the beautiful screen on the Palm vs. the QVGA on the WM5 device.

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