HTC Launches Apple iPhone ‘Killer’ - HTC Touch
Posted by Will on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 at 11:39 am under HTC, iPhone, Technologies, Windows Mobile, Devices, Announcements
Remember when we told you that HTC had a mysterious announcement for June 5th? Well, it turns out that today is June 5th! We bring you HTC’s answer to the Apple iPhone - the HTC Touch. As expected, the HTC Elf-based Touch rocks the new TouchFLO fingertip interface to compete directly with Apple’s multi-touch display on the iPhone.
TouchFLO responds to the same sweeping, finger inputs as the iPhone and will also recognize when a stylus is being used. TouchFLO brings fingertip scrolling and browsing through webpages and documents. Flick your finger upwards on the screen and TouchFLO will serve up it’s application launcher (Contacts, Media, Applications). The animated launcher is controlled through the same finger flicks that makes browsing through music albums on the iPhone so visually appealing.
Hit the link to get your fill of glamor shots!
Being based on the HTC Elf, the HTC Touch sports a 2.8 inch screen, quad-band GSM radio with EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi, microSD slot, and 2 MP shooter - all running under Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional. The Touch will come pre-installed with Office Mobile and Microsoft’s Direct Push Email system.
Peter Chou, HTC CEO, says, “With the HTC Touch, access to your most commonly used content, contacts and features is only a simple finger flick away…Mobile phone makers have done a great job of cramming ever-more exciting features into ever-smaller phones. But the way in which one accesses these increasingly sophisticated features has not kept pace. That ends today with the HTC Touch”
The HTC Touch is now available in the UK with an Asian and European rollout expected later this month. North and South America can expect releases in 2H 2007. It should be noted that the HTC Touch is smaller and slimmer than the Apple iPhone and it will be released globally - while the iPhone is limited to a single carrier in the US. It looks like AT&T execs have even more reason to get all queasy in the stomach.
via: brighthand
June 5th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Hmm… Y’know what…. I kind of like it.
It’s not quite as sexy as the iPhone, and the windows OS still looks kind of difficult to use with a finger. But this looks like a step in the right direction.
June 5th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
It looks like an over-sized Tamagotchi to me.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:30 am
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June 6th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
A lame ripoff. Leave it to Asia to ‘innovate’.
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December 11th, 2007 at 10:07 am
I love my HTC Touch
Awesome Phone not a rip off
January 8th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Nice to see someone come up against the marketing machine that is the iPhone. The “i” Line is more marketing than anything… ask people that actually use the iPhone… it ain’t all that great. Just like the iPod… there’s way more “bang for your buck” in a better media player under different brand names.
I’m getting my HTC Touch ASAP.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:52 am
i love my htc touch its a totally awsome phone// i would not go back to my old phone// deffinitly not a rip off!!
January 17th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
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January 22nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
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January 22nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
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January 22nd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
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January 28th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
March 11th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
I love my HTC Touch. I especially love the large screen, easy to use touch screen, and even using the stylist is easy. It has everything my PC has.
I surf the internet. Google maps is amazing. I play games that were only on PC’s a year ago. And I have some really great apps that are typical to the PC environment. Windows apps like Office. Internet Explorer, and astronomy, currency converters that gets live updates. It’s basically my mini laptop, the phone is a bonus!
March 25th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
i got one and in less than 2 months it had viruses and was all messed up. When i took it into the sprint store to ask what was wrong, they said there was nothing wrong and it worked perfectly, when it was obvious it wasn’t right. I tried downloading music to a micro SD card but as soon as i did all the ringtones wouldn’t work and the phone would only vibrate instead of ring. I just recently got an iPhone and the touch screen is SOOOO much easier because you don’t have to press down on the screen at all, and the iPhone can actually display the internet, not a scaled down version. My iPhone also has had no problems that couldn’t be fixed in less than 10 minutes. Overall, I was disappointed in my Touch.
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April 7th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Well, i got the sprint touch n an ipod touch. The touch screen on the sprint touch is soo much easier to use then the ipod. And no . . . it’s not a rip off!! The greatest phone i’ve ever had!!
April 10th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
People with iPods are just fad followers. The bulk of these people do NO research before they buy, and if they did they would find out about better things than OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive apple merchandise. The HTC touch is a great example of this. As far as I know it is projected to release to be only about 150 to 250 bucks, way cheaper than the ipod (this is for verizon). As far as viruses, of course there is potential for this, just download some pocket antivirus/antispyware, you can find some for free. in my opinion the HTC touch is the best choice for consumers in this market. Buy it and save money over the ipod!
April 12th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
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August 2nd, 2008 at 9:07 pm
It looks like shit reinvented. I say stop trying to reinvent the iPhone with windows, and become original.
Btw I have an iPhone and I wouldn’t even consider that phone.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
I got both. guess which ones going back… The iphone sux ass touch screen is crap, too heavy it cost me too much and it dont look as good as the Touch… Nuff said.
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:44 am
I love The HTC Touch Diamond over Apple. I think in market only htc touch diamond is real competitor.