HTC Touch (P3450) Reviews

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HTC Touch (P3450)

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8.2
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7.4
Design (7752)

9.2
Value for money (30)

7.1
Features (7745)

8.8
Ease of use (27)

8.0
Performance (7738)

7.4

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HTC Touch

The HTC Touch PDA phone from the Taiwan-based High Tech Computer Corporation was launched in June 2007. The first editions of the HTC Touch, also referred to as the HTC P3450, came with 128 megabytes of Flash ROM and 64 megabytes of SDRAM and was available in two colors: Soft Black and Wasabi Green. An updated version, the P3452, was released in November and featured twice the amount of memory and two new colors: White and Burgundy. Both the older and newer models have a microSD card slot for memory expansion.

This PDA phone has a 2.8 inch TFT LCD touchscreen running at QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) resolution, a 2 megapixel CMOS color camera, WiFi b/g connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0. The device runs on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional platform and has handwriting recognition software built-in.

Main Features

The HTC Touch’s main and unique selling point is its user interface. Dubbed TouchFLO, the interface is capable of recognizing sweeping motions made by either the user’s fingers or the included stylus. The phone’s multimedia functions (photo album, music and video player) and photo-based address book navigation can all be done through finger gestures. The TouchFLO’s finger and stylus gesture-based navigation has brought on comparisons to the Apple iPhone, although the HTC Touch was released a few weeks earlier and does not feature the multi-touch gestures of the iPhone.

With the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 software powering the HTC Touch, the device comes loaded with, among other things, Pocket Office (Excel, Word, Outlook and a PDF Viewer) and the Internet Explorer Mobile (or PocketIE) web browser.

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Manufacturer's Specs

General

2G Network

GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
Announced

2007, June
Status

Available

Size

Dimensions

99.9 x 58 x 13.9 mm
Weight

112 g
Display

- TouchFLO finger swipe navigation - Handwriting recognition - 5-way navigation

Display

Type

TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
Size

240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches

Ringtones

Type

Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3
Customization

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HTC Touch GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 99.9 x 58 x 13.9 mm Camera 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels, video Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional HTC Elf platform. Full HTC platforms guide.

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HTC Touch Smartphone

Reviewer: TheTechLounge
07 August 2008
For me, Windows Mobile has always been primarily focused on data access, rather than data creation or modification. The Touch excels in this regard. It's not a multimedia powerhouse, but it ... Read more
HTC Touch Review: An iPhone It Is Not

Reviewer: CrunchGear
23 July 2008
Overall, the HTC Touch is one of the better Windows Mobile phones I’ve seen in awhile. The lack of a QWERTY keyboard can be overlooked after a few days of practicing using the on-screen keyboard. Plus the screen looks fantastic, the WiFi is fast, and the TouchFLO interface is pretty fun to use. On the other hand, no US release date, a terrible camera, and the fact that it’s still a Windows Mobile device make the Touch seem unappealing at times. I’d recommend getting i... Read more
HTC Touch (Alltel)

Reviewer: Smart Device Central
14 July 2008
If you're looking for WM power on Alltel, you can go for the HTC PPC6800, a fine device with both a sizable touch screen and a full keyboard, but you'll end up paying much more. A 400 MHz, fully fledged Windows Mobile Professional device for a mere $129.99 (with contract) is pretty impressive. Given the lack of a physical keyboard, I wouldn't recommend the Touch to beginning smartphone users, but Windows Mobile aficionados will find a great deal here. Read more
Reviewer: Mobiledia
13 April 2008
The Touch offers a wealth of features in a small package and the innovative Touch Cube interface allows users to take advantage of the TouchFLO screen. This screen technology gives users quick access to many one-touch features, such as text message and photos. The Touch's audio quality is not great, but this phone provides a solid smart phone that is perfect for on-the-go professionals to stay organized and in touch. The de... Read more
This advanced PDA phone's touch-based interface and Windows Mobile 6 OS are promising applications, but the two don't mix well.

Reviewer: PC World
24 January 2008

Overall 7

Design 8

Features 6

Performance 6

HTC's Touch is being billed as an alternative to Apple's iPhone, and for the most part it is a worthy one. The Touch's price is about the same as that of the iPhone: It costs $350 (as of 12/20/07) with a two-year AT&T contract. Read more

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User Reviews

HTC Touch - A must have phone

Reviewer: vishalwins, Ciao
6 days ago

Overall 10

It will be a style to YOUR style. Its a must phone to all those who want to have a PC on their hands. Its much more than a PC on hand. Read more
Good price for basic PDA

Reviewer: jetlkh, CNET
7 days ago

Overall 8

Bought this over an IT fair and it was one of the cheapest PDA phone around. Quite satisfied with it given that phone connectivity as well as syncing and Wifi were easily configured and had not been much of a problem. the touchflo system is also very helpful. I just switched from a normal phone to a PDA one and I would say that most irks came from windows mobile and not the phone itself. e.g. the need to close all applications again from the taskbar, high memory requi... Read more
xv6900 Breath of Fresh Air!

Reviewer: FknTwizted, Phone Scoop
3 weeks ago

Overall 9

This phone is finally what people that have had pdas in the past been looking for, small compacted, and touch screen. I have been a pda user for over 4 years now and will not go back to another "standard" phone... My back ground is in the cell phone field and I get to play with all the phones. My previously phones were, xv6700, Moto Q, xv6800, Black Berry Curve, xv5800, and by far this phone is the cats meow! Some will say "well it doesn't have a qwerty keyboard"...... Read more
make the upgrade

Reviewer: selvin, Amazon
4 weeks ago

Overall 10

Pros: with the new system of navigation, has improved, You can download it from www.htc.com....free if you have the plan. simply everything with sprint, you do not have to pay anything for using the system for navigation. is included in the plan. comes a new keyboard you should make the upgrade have many programs with which you can make you rhtc a laptop Cons: The keyboard is a bit small for the phone. you can not use your fingers to handle The internal memory is very... Read more
Reviewer: x_zibit88, Esato
14 September 2008

Overall 4

great phone but only buy it when you really need al the applications it's no phone for people that don't use their phone for work or the internet rg Read more