HTC Touch – A Totally Touchable Smart phone review

HTC Touch – A Totally Touchable Smart phone review

The HTC Touch is a beautiful, very small PDA phone, something we just about never get to say. HTC Touch is the perfect phone for style conscious buyers who need a PDA’s features and advanced functions, but don’t want to carry an ugly brick. However, those who text or email frequently won’t be happy with the tiny on-screen keyboard and (very functional) handwriting recognition. The HTC Touch isn’t meant to compete with hardware-keyboarded PDA and smartphones like the Treo 750, Cingular 8525, T-Mobile Dash or BlackBerry 8800. And while the HTC Touch user interface is a step in the right direction, it’s really just one application launcher rather than a pervasive change to the phone’s interaction on the whole.

For me, the HTC Touch addresses these problems. It certainly is crippled when it comes to finger based text entry, but apart from that, I rarely need the stylus at all in typical use. The HTC Touch turns out to be a good passive messaging and data consumption device. HTC Touch has the power to get information to the user, and present it in a usable fashion, but lacks some of the practical aspects of other Pocket PC devices that allow users to edit documents or create new messages easily for HTC Touch.

So while HTC Touch is not going to be the perfect solution for power users and other road warriors that need to edit documents and create dozens of emails in a day, HTC Touch could well be the perfect device for people who generally just need to keep on top of their appointments and manage their lives. HTC Touch certainly has a lot more work to do with their TouchFlo system, but I still give the HTC Touch a “Highly Recommended” rating, at least for those that, There are HTC Touch.

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