HTC Touch Cruise (2008)

Good – 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. Comes with a lot of accessories to make it almost an all in one PDA for just about anything.

Good battery life. A little slow due to the lack of video drivers from HTC.