HTC gives Sprint HTC Touch Pro2 a proper 3.5mm headphone jack

The HTC Touch Pro2 is tops in the enterprise smarpthone market. HTC made sure that their Touch Pro2’s slide-out QWERTY keyboard and huge touchscreen display were good enough to best the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N97, as confirmed by IntoMobile’s own Nokia N97 vs HTC Touch Pro2 showdown. But, in that quest for business-phone domination, HTC forgot about one little detail that makes a huge difference – the 3.5mm headphone jack. The European unlocked GSM and the T-Mobile Touch Pro2 variants both lack anything resembling a standard headphone jack, forcing the user to use a headphone-to-extUSB adapter when listening to music on their own headphones. So, imagine are glee upon seeing Engadget’s pics of the Sprint (NYSE: S) HTC Touch Pro2 hardware sporting a true 3.5mm headphone jack beside the extUSB port!

Aside from the Sprint logo, tweaked color-scheme and battery cover, and headphone jack, the Sprint HTC Touch Pro2 looks a lot like the unlocked GSM HTC Touch Pro2. But, with the addition of the lowly 3.5mm jack, the Pro2 magically morphs into a respectable media-phone. The Sprint Pro2 is still a sizable smartphone that would never get confused for a musicphone, but it should now hold its own against media-centric smartphones. Well done, Sprint!

[Via: Engadget]