The HTC Touch Cruise™ is sleek, stylish, and compact, but big on features and with an LCD screen size that gives you an excellent multimedia experience in a mobile device. Featuring HTC’s innovative TouchFLO™ interface, the Touch Cruise is extremely easy to use. Using ordinary finger gestures, you can quickly browse through e-mails, web pages, messages, music, and images, making navigation a breeze.

Because I am proud owner of a great Pocket PC HTC Touch Cruise, I would like to pass some first feed-back about this “tool”.

I would complete this post into following categories.

1. Technical information
2. Visual impression
3. Stability
4. Usage
5. Conclusion

Technical information

Processor:
Qualcomm® MSM7200™, 400MHz

Operating System:
Windows Mobile® 6 Professional

Memory:
ROM: 256MB ; RAM: 128MB DDR SDRAM

Dimensions:
110 mm (L) X 58 mm (W) X 15.5 mm (T)

Weight:
130g with battery

Display:
2.8-inch TFT-LCD with backlight LEDs, touch-sensitive screen

Network:
HSDPA/UMTS: 2100 MHz (Europe), 850/1900 MHz (USA)
HSDPA: Up to 384kbps for upload and 3.6Mbps for download
UMTS: Up to 384kbps for upload and download
GSM/GPRS/EDGE: Quad-band 850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz (The device will operate on frequencies available from the cellular network)

Device Control:
HTC TouchFLO™ (4-Way Navigation Wheel with Enter button)

Connectivity:
Bluetooth® 2.0
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g
HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB and audio jack in one), full-speed USB 2.0

Camera:
Main camera: 3 megapixel color CMOS camera with auto focus
Second camera: VGA CMOS color camera

Audio:
Built-in microphone and speaker

Ring tone supported formats:
MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV, and AMR-NB
40 polyphonic and standard MIDI format 0 and 1(SMF)/SP MIDI

Battery:
1350 mAh rechargeable Lithium-ion battery

Standby time:
Up to 450 hours for UMTS
Up to 400 hours for GSM

Talk time:
Up to 4 hours for UMTS
Up to 7 hours for GSM
Up to 2.3 hours for video call
(The above are subject to network and phone usage)

Expansion Slot:
microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)

AC Adapter:
Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC,
50/60Hz
DC output: 5V and 1A

Visual impression

The look of this PPC (in my opinion) is just above average. Its black-grey-silver color looks fantastic. Its size is just good for use (there are no problems in holding this PPC in hands).
Display shows great colors in all contrasts.

Stability

I guess the only battery live is the harm of every PPC. During the day (in full operation mode) the battery stay “ok” for 1 day.
There were obviously some phone resets needed (too much trying, I guess ), yet it did not discourage me of using it.
Display works well, hardware buttons are ok with no any unwanted noices.

Usage

No hesitation to say, WM6 is a great piece of solution. It enables you to install many aplications to best suits your needs. It enables you to modify the registry, which I take as the biggest advantage on the phone. Due to the fact, the HTC Touch Cruise has the GPS module, you may even use this PPC as fully comfortable GPS navigation system. I have tried many applications on WM6 (which I am going to describe in my future posts), that I was satisfied with + could not even live without.

Conclusion

Because I got used to utilize PPC according to its possible functionalities and abilities, I would surelly recommend this “tool”. Now days I use the PPC to sync with Microsoft Exchange server, which gives me even more out of all.

tampiss

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