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Mar
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Just yesterday, I decided to renew my old mobile phone line for a brand new HTC Touch 2, Model T3333 with my mobile service provider. I was quite excited with getting the HTC Touch 2 especially since there are many functions packed inside this medium-sized, somewhat professional-looking device.
Much unfortunately, the HTC Touch 2 doesn’t look all attractive like the iPhone. Consumers are able to choose between brown or blue. The blue I chose made the HTC Touch 2 look pretty sturdy and the silver lining around the entire sides of the phone further boost its appearance. The grip on the smart-phone is pretty comfortable too. I was quite delighted with the weight of the HTC Touch 2, a light 110 grams, comparable with the 130 grams iPhone indeed!
The HTC Touch 2’s TouchFLO interface is pretty user-friendly, allowing consumers to navigate through most of the important information on their HTC Touch 2 easily. The touch-screen is rather reactive, however, one of the disadvantages I encountered is that a little more force is required to tap on the touch screen sometimes. The Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional looks good, but at certain junctions in the phone, such as the Calendar function, appears to be a stark contrast to the vibrant interface of the smart phone.
The HTC Touch 2 plays music comparatively well, which I believe could perform better if the speakers were further widened. The 3.2 megapixel camera has a plethora of frames and settings for consumers to tweak. However, the lack of flash doesn’t make it so good in the end.
Another great feature packed along in the HTC Touch 2 given one-year free by my phone manufacturer was a SYGIC mobile map. As the HTC Touch 2 comes along with an internal GPS antenna, a map is all consumers need to navigate themselves around. I was pretty pleased with the SYGIC map, but the GPS takes a little while to start-up and the interface is not really user-friendly. The HTC Touch 2 also comes installed with Google Maps for those without SYGIC maps. A simple test on Google Maps showed the GPS working comparatively well. However, Google Maps requires information to be downloaded simultaneously while GPS is being used, and this lays costs on consumers, which yet again brings another disadvantage.
This brings me to my other point regarding my displeasure with the HTC Touch 2. When data connection was switched off in the connection settings, the HTC Touch 2 switched on the data connection without my approval when I started the mobile browser and Google Maps. This resulted in more costs incurred for using data connection, which is a big no no for a student like me.
Another bane regarding the Windows Mobile OS is the lack of applications
. Compared to the Apple store where thousands of free applications are available for iPhone/iTouch consumers, finding free applications / softwares for my HTC Touch 2 operating on a Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional takes eons. The softwares available in Windows Marketplace is pretty limited and expensive, and I was quite surprised that so few free downloads on applications were offered by Microsoft.
In conclusion, generally, the HTC Touch 2 is a worthy purchase. However so, it is unfortunately not an iPhone alternative.
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