The HTC Touch Cruise is sleek, stylish, and compact, but big on features and with a 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.Live HTC Home vibrantly displays important information, such as real-time weather updates and a large easy-to-view clock. A quick application launcher provides easy access to favorite programs. HTC Home also gives you quick access to ring tone settings, making it easy to adjust device sounds and alerts on the fly. The dynamic 3D Touch Cube interface enables you to quickly call contacts,... Read More
The HTC Touch Cruise is sleek, stylish, and compact, but big on features and with a 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.
Live HTC Home vibrantly displays important information, such as real-time weather updates and a large easy-to-view clock. A quick application launcher provides easy access to favorite programs. HTC Home also gives you quick access to ring tone settings, making it easy to adjust device sounds and alerts on the fly. The dynamic 3D Touch Cube interface enables you to quickly call contacts, open applications, listen to music, and browse media files.
Built-in GPS functionality and the included software enable you to find the fastest route to your direction, locate restaurants and services on the way, and never get lost. Avoid traffic and delays, and take detours to visit points of interest and local attractions.
Highlights
Full multimedia experience with the large 2.8-inch touch screen
Revolutionary TouchFLO touch-screen technology that allows finger-touch scrolling, panning, and photo zooming
Innovative 3D Touch Cube interface for quick and easy navigation
Worldwide connectivity (3G and GPRS/EDGE/GSM)
Windows Mobile 6 Professional with Direct Push Outlook e-mail
Live HTC Home featuring time and weather display, quick launcher, and one-touch ring tone settings
3 megapixel camera with auto-focus for shooting photos/videos and a second camera for video calls or self-portraits
Built-in GPS navigation offers you a full navigation experience
Entertainment features including an FM radio, MP3 player, and video playback
Pros:
Comes with a lot of accessories to make it almost an all in one PDA for just about anything.
Good battery life.
Cons:
A little slow due to the lack of video drivers from HTC.
Overall:
The HTC touch Cruise is absolutely worth its value as you get GPS (built in receiver and software), a car mount to hold it in, car charger to charge while in use, AC charger for home, USB cable for syncing, a screen protector, a spare stylus, headphones, and a soft pouch to keep it in.
GPS works very well and is quite quick, with 3 hours worth of navigation. The car charger keeps it charged all the way also. I found the software it came CoPilot Live 7 to work quite well at least 85% of the time.
The TouchFLO feature is quite handy a lot of the times making scrolling and panning through screens simple.
It extends to the photo album which is quite fun.
Its very basic compared to the new HTC phones, but it works very well and intuitive feature to have from HTC, before other companies.
At the end of the day, the HTC Touch Cruise gives you everything every other PDA does, the connectivity, the battery life, the quality, camera, everything, and more with the extra accessories and bundled software.
The only real disappointment in the end is the fact that HTC excluded the graphic drivers, but in most cases, can be overcome by the custom firmware users have developed for the HTC Touch Cruise.
So if you're not too fussy on the video processing side and games, but mainly use it to keep journals and notes (I do heaps), calender reminders, some navigation, with little multimedia, this is the perfect phone. Love the radio, and everything.
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