If you live in the United States, you should be ready to jump T-Mobile’s hot HTC Touch 2 deals. The carrier offers this amazing mobile phone for an equally amazing price; unless of you are an Android purist, then we completely understand why you ignored it. Hopefully, we can expect similar packages offered in the UK. This mobile phone maximizes the potential of the Windows Mobile operating system and combines a touch screen interface with a slide out QWERTY keyboard for an amazingly smooth and seamless navigation experience. Well, relatively smooth; the WinMo OS tends to jump around and slow down intermittently.
HTC’s Sense and WinMo’s OS
The HTC Sense interface and the Windows Mobile operating system both rely heavily on touch screen input. Other HTC Touch 2 reviews would concur that the physical keyboard is important particularly with the resistive touch screen needs of WinMo. Unlike the Sense, WinMo’s small and narrow access buttons require the thin point of the stylus. The Sense on the other hand operates smoothly whether you are using a stylus or your fingertips. Windows Mobile 6.5 offers a wide variety of new features and improvements over 6.1 such as the new application store and updated versions of Pocket Office, Outlook, Internet Explorer and the Windows Media Player 10.
Matching Hardware
With Windows providing excellent software features, HTC provides the backbone through the hardware of the phone. From the 3.6 inch touch screen to the 3 mega pixel camera, the Touch 2 has been designed with media functionality in mind. It also uses a full slide out QWERTY keyboard for typing messages. Right now, the Touch 2 is facing fierce competition from the XPERIA X2 by Sony Ericsson. With both devices running the WinMo 6.5 OS, it will be interesting to see which one the public prefers more.
