htc touch - best form factor for a wm phone

[Henry Kong]

what do you think? :wobble:

half as thick as a dopod
and as small as an lg prada
but cannot use finger alone (stylus required) - pity

[recce]

Was playing with it in the office yesterday, colleague had one unit straight from Taiwan for "business" needs.

Initial impression was that it was really slim and tiny for a PDA cum smartphone.

Too bad, the OS spoilt it! LOL, just joking...

As a PDA, the screen is really too small at 2.8", the CPU is only running at 200MHz, and the RAM is only at 64MB, and phone wise it is not even 3G.

Ultimately it depends on the individuals' needs, so I'm sure this device will fit into someone else's usage preference :)

[benlhy]

Seeing how popular it is when its just launched, I'm sure its replacement will be better.

All you gotta do is wait, but if their customer service is still that bad, I'll be damned if I buy another Dopod.

[chewingyu]

Henry, I don't really want to nit pick but could you have taken better fotos?...

[Palmed Again]

The iPhone is also not 3G. Who knows.. HTC may be ODM for iPhone and just putting up their own clone to the market ;)

ps standard spec for WM5 and WM6 is 64MB RAM, 128MB flash/ROM for non volatile storage

[Henry Kong]

Henry, I don't really want to nit pick but could you have taken better fotos?...

actually you can get better photos on the web
somehow
all my indoor closeups are just terribly bad
but i hope to do better with shots on the e90

i'd pretty them up
and put more effort
if there were more interest...

[palmdude]

i am more interested in the interface.. since its gonna rival iphones one... wat about the screen is it multi touch one?

[Ddeath]

You can check out the review here.

www.mobiletechreview.com/phones/HTC-Touch.htm

[Palmed Again]

i am more interested in the interface.. since its gonna rival iphones one... wat about the screen is it multi touch one?

Slide up to launch launcher menu.

Slide left and right to switch between pages in launcher.

Slide down to get back to Today screen.

[dennisleu]

^^ Palm has these shortcuts too right?

I remembered on my old T3, I can switched off and locked my Palm by swiping the stylus across the screen from bottom to top.

[xhui]

^^ Palm has these shortcuts too right?

I remembered on my old T3, I can switched off and locked my Palm by swiping the stylus across the screen from bottom to top.

yeap. but i think the touch technology wants more effective finger touching and usage rather then stylus. (but htc touch didn't load in the T9 input so, for text messanging, stylus still needed - duh part on htc, phonepad is their thing, duno why they didn't put it in-but u can always do that yourself. *ahem*)

[weimeng]

impressed by htc for coming up with such a software. The touch is not perfect, but I do see the potentials. Let's see if MS and htc will work together and put this technology into the os, before iphone gains any foothold.

And wow! it's as thin as a RAZR!? I'm impressed.

Still disappointed with Palm....