HTC Touch Cruise Announced

**Chris Leckness** · 11-12-07, 08:22 AM

The HTC Touch CruiseT is sleek, stylish, and compact, but big on features and with an LCD screen size that gives you an excellent multimedia experience in a mobile device. Featuring HTC's innovative TouchFLOT interface, the Touch Cruise is extremely easy to use. Using ordinary finger gestures, you can quickly browse through e-mails, web pages, messages, music, and images, making navigation a breeze.

Live HTC HomeT vibrantly displays important information, such as real-time weather updates and a large easy-to-view clock. A quick application launcher provides easy access to favorite programs. HTC HomeT also gives you quick access to ring tone settings making it easy to adjust device sounds and alerts on the fly. The dynamic 3D Touch Cube interface enables you to quickly call contacts, open applications, listen to music, and browse media files.

Built-in GPS functionality and the included software enable you to find the fastest route to your direction, locate restaurants and services on the way, and never get lost. Avoid traffic and delays, and take detours to visit points of interest and local attractions.

Full multimedia experience with the large 2.8-inch touch screen
Revolutionary TouchFLOT touch-screen technology that allows finger-touch scrolling, panning, and photo zooming
Innovative 3D Touch Cube interface for quick and easy navigation
Worldwide connectivity (3G and GPRS/EDGE/GSM)
Windows Mobile® 6 Professional with Direct Push Outlook® e-mail
Live HTC HomeT featuring time and weather display, quick launcher, and one-touch ring tone settings
3 megapixel camera with auto-focus for shooting photos/videos and a second camera for video calls or self-portraits
Built-in turn-by-turn GPS navigation with TomTom® software offers you a full navigation experience
Entertainment features including an FM radio, MP3 player, and video playback

Processor

Qualcomm® MSM7200T, 400MHz

Operating System

Windows Mobile® 6 Professional

Memory

ROM: 256MB ; RAM: 128MB DDR SDRAM

Dimensions

110 mm (L) X 58 mm (W) X 15.5 mm (T)

Weight

130g with battery

Display

2.8-inch TFT-LCD with backlight LEDs, touch-sensitive screen

Network

HSDPA/UMTS: 2100 MHz (Europe), 850/1900 MHz (USA)
HSDPA: Up to 384kbps for upload and 3.6Mbps for download
UMTS: Up to 384kbps for upload and download
GSM/GPRS/EDGE: Quad-band 850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz (The device will operate on frequencies available from the cellular network)

Device Control

HTC TouchFLOT
4-Way Navigation Wheel with Enter button

Connectivity

Bluetooth® 2.0
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g

HTC ExtUSBT (11-pin mini-USB and audio jack in one), full-speed USB 2.0

Camera

Main camera: 3 megapixel color CMOS camera with auto focus
Second camera: VGA CMOS color camera

Audio

Built-in microphone and speaker
Ring tone supported formats:

	MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV, and AMR-NB
	40 polyphonic and standard MIDI format 0 and 1(SMF)/SP MIDI

Battery

1350 mAh rechargeable Lithium-ion battery
Standby time:

	Up to 450 hours for UMTS
	Up to 400 hours for GSM

Talk time:

	Up to 4 hours for UMTS
	Up to 7 hours for GSM
	Up to 2.3 hours for video call

(The above are subject to network and phone usage)

Expansion Slot

microSDT memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)

AC Adapter

Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC,
50/60Hz

DC output: 5V and 1A

Source: HTC Via MSMobiles

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11-12-07, 09:11 AM

It looks like the shadow,

**hyedipin** · 11-12-07, 09:23 AM

They continue making these touch-phones, but they don't plan on making any changes to the interface, such as tiny close buttons or other selections on the screen. Non of these are touch-friendly, other than some basic phone functions.