HTC
Touch Pro Gets Verizon’s Touch
Verizon Wireless and HTC Corporation are offering HTC Touch Pro, a phone
with an intuitive touch screen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It’s
available for U.S. buyers for $349.99 after a $70 mail-in rebate.
The HTC
Touch Pro comes with an easy-to-use interface with Windows Mobile 6.1
Professional. Customers can choose to use either the classic Windows
Mobile interface or HTC's TouchFLO 3D graphical interface, which makes
common applications easily available.
Users
can browse the Web or access their e-mail, contacts and calendars with
Microsoft Outlook. The phone also has the ability to open and edit
Microsoft Word and Excel documents and share Microsoft PowerPoint files
with large groups using a separately sold video-out cable connected to a
television or projector.
The
phone also features 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash. With the
preloaded business card reader application, the camera doubles as a
scanner, allowing business card information to be stored on the HTC
Touch Pro and synchronized with a contact database.
Customers can turn their HTC Touch Pro into a GPS navigator by using
Verizon Wireless' VZ Navigator service. With VZ Navigator, customers can
access audible turn-by-turn directions to more than 14 million local
businesses and attractions and even share the locations with others.
Verizon
Wireless customers can further customize their HTC Touch Pro by
selecting from thousands of available Windows Mobile applications,
including productivity applications, utilities and games.
Accessing information and entertainment on-the-go is possible with the
Opera Web browser, which enables Web pages to be viewed in the format
they were originally designed to be viewed on the HTC Touch Pro's
2.8-inch VGA display. A microSD memory card slot enables storage of up
to 16 GB for a wide array of photos, videos, documents and more.
The HTC
Touch Pro is available for $349.99 after a $70 mail-in rebate and a new
two-year customer agreement. Customers will receive the rebate in the
form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash
anywhere debit cards are accepted.
VZ
Navigator is available for $9.99 monthly access. Other charges may apply
when downloading or using applications. Customers who purchase a Verizon
Wireless Nationwide voice plan to use with their HTC Touch Pro can also
subscribe to the Email and Web for Smartphone plan for an additional
$29.99 per month.
As HTC
is targeting mass markets with its touch phones, recently it joined
hands with a telecom service provider in India
IDEA Cellular to offer HTC Touch Pro
and the HTC Touch Viva to the Indian consumers for Rs. 34,900 (about $
700) and Rs. 16,490 (about $330).
Photo courtesy: HTC
