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HTC Wants You To Touch

Richard Baguley Published on June 05, 2007 Comment on this

5th June 2007 - HTC just unveiled their answer to the iPhone; the HTC Touch is a new phone that was just announced in London based on the Elf design that uses a new touch screen interface called TouchFLO. This allows a user to control the phone by dragging a finger across the touch sensitive 2.8-inch LCD screen. To select a program in the interface, you just touch the screen. To move the interface to another screen, you flick your finger across the screen. HTC has an interactive demo of how the new interface works on their site.

The new interface for the Touch is brown down into three screens: contacts, media and applications. The user moves between them by flicking across the screen from left to right. However, this new interface does not stretch to the applications themselves; they are standard Windows Mobile 6 Professional applications that

Apart from the touch interface, the Touch is a pretty standard HTC device: it runs Windows Mobile 6 Professional with 64MB of RAM, and has a quad-band GSM (so it should work with all of the US network), EDGE data and an 802.11g and Bluetooth 2.0 wireless LAN interface. Like the iPhone, there is no 3G radio, though; the maximum data speed you’ll get from this device is about 80kbps. The Touch measures 3.89 inches by 2.2 inches and just 0.54 inches thick, and includes an 1100 mAh battery with a claimed talk time life of up to 5 hours. It’s available in the UK now and in the USA in the second half of 2007. However, there is no information on the US carriers who might be offering the phone.