HTC's Touch Pro gets a slide-out keyboard and HTC's TouchFLO 3D interface. Is this the business phone to beat this season?
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 The HTC Touch Pro is basically the HTC Touch Diamond with a slide out keyboard, and that might be enough to make this the most anticipated Windows Mobile handset to hit the market in a long time. The Touch Pro has a fantastic display, a 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen, and the company has made great strides in making the TouchFLO 3D interface as responsive as the iPhone's UI. Where the interface is pure HTC, they've succeeded, though underneath lurks Windows Mobile 6.1. Still, in our hands on tests, when we slid our finger around the horizontal toolbar, the icons followed our fingers perfectly, and the phone seemed snappy in various functions opening and closing apps or reorienting the screen from portrait to landscape.
Even better, with the large, 5-row, full-QWERTY keyboard hiding underneath, this phone is one of the first on the market to combine a truly responsive, compelling all-touch interface with the hardware keyboard option. It even gets a high-end, 3.2-megapixel camera with auto focus, and did we mention that VGA screen? Definitely what we like to see on a portable device. We're looking forward to getting our hands on one for a longer test drive. Release: September 2008. Price: $900.
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