HTC Touch Cruise - Way more than a mobile phone
Monday, January 26, 2009
The Touch Cruise is one of those smartphones that has at least one great feature worth writing home about with the “Footprint”. This Footprint has nothing to do with carbon, for it is a GPS feature that allows the user to dock the phone in a car cradle and use it like an ordinary Auto Navigation System.
This phone/GPS device also uses turn-by-turn navigation, and has another geo-tagging feature that enables the user to take “digital postcards” with a 3.2 megapixel camera. I don’t have any more information than that, but I’m guessing this postcard feature will allow the user to send a picture, audio file, and other notes to someone else with the proper coordinates.
The HTC Touch Cruise has an operating system of Windows Mobile 6.1, and has a 2.8 inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with a QVGA resolution display. The other features are no surprise: it is also outfitted with Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity. It also includes a microSD memory card slot, with up to 400 minutes talk-time and up to two weeks standby on GSM.
>> Expand Specifications| Processor | Qualcomm® MSM7225™, 528 MHz |
| Operating System | Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional |
| Memory | ROM: 512 MB RAM: 256 MB |
| Dimensions | 102 X 53.5 X 14.5 mm (4.02 X 2.11 X 0.57 inches) |
| Weight | 103 grams (3.63 ounces) with battery |
| Display | 2.8-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with QVGA resolution |
| Network | HSDPA/WCDMA:
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| Device Control | HTC TouchFLO™ 4-Way Navigation Wheel with Enter button HTC Footprints™ button |
| GPS | Internal GPS antenna A-GPS capable (service provided by Google) |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for stereo wireless headsets Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB and audio jack in one), full-speed USB 2.0 |
| Camera | 3.2 megapixel color camera with fixed focus |
| Audio supported formats | AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR, AWB, QCP, MP3, WMA, WAV, MIDI |
| Video supported formats | WMV, ASF, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, M4V, AVI |
| Battery | Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery Capacity: 1100 mAh Talk time:
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| Expansion Slot | microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible) |
| AC Adapter | Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60 Hz DC output: 5V and 1A |
| Special Features | Includes proprietary in-car holder Photo geotagging |
