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Monday, Nov 12, 2007 8:30am
HTC debuts Touch Cruise wit... |
HTC on Monday took on the launch of the iPhone in Europe with the release of the Touch Cruise, the company's third touchscreen-focused smartphone following the original Touch and the first to offer a significant new design. The device originally known as the Polaris is based around the same combination of Windows Mobile 6, the HTC Home front-end, and the finger-oriented TouchFLO interface but adds a navigation wheel as well as extra shortcut buttons for its special features. One of these is for GPS, HTC says: the Cruise is the first Touch to include full navigation and uses maps supplied by TomTom.The handset also includes upgrades to the existing abilities of the line. In addition to a sharper 3-megapixel rear camera for photos, the Cruise offers a front VGA camera for video calling. Accordingly, the phone provides full 3G access and supports HSDPA networks in Canada and the US as well as Europe. Wi-Fi is also onboard for Internet access indoors or outside of the range of HSDPA and slower EDGE connections. |
