Company Press Release:
 
HTC launches first 3.5G Touch
 
New device expands Touch family with addition of 3G/HSDPA connectivity, sliding keypad
and advanced touch interface that takes Touch to a new level
 
HTC Corp. (TAIEX: 2498; “HTC”), the world's leading provider of Microsoft® Windows Mobile® smart devices, today announced the launch of the HTC Touch Dual™, a new and more powerful member of the Touch™ family that integrates 3.5G wireless connectivity with a sleek and innovative sliding keypad design.

The HTC Touch Dual™ follows HTC’s heritage of bringing a new level of simplicity to the powerful and feature rich device experience that today’s mobile users demand. Taking a design cue from the stylish HTC Touch™, the HTC Touch Dual™ integrates 3.5G wireless connectivity and a slide out keypad into a slim and slender device designed for easy typing.

The HTC Touch Dual™ is the second device to feature HTC’s TouchFLO™, the same gesture-recognition technology as that in the HTC Touch™, but now the new functionality including the ability to view photo slideshows using on-screen controls and to zoom and rotate images with only a hand. TouchFLO™ also allows enhanced finger touch scrolling and browsing of web pages, documents, messages and contact lists.
 

““The HTC Touch Dual expands the HTC Touch product family and integrates 3.5G connectivity and a sliding keyboard into a slim and stylish design. This combination provides customers with the most uncompromising and intuitive touch experience available on a phone,” said Jack Tong, Vice President of HTC Asia. “The HTC Touch has not only changed the way people interact with their phone but it has redefined what touch means on a consumer device. HTC is committed to bringing advanced levels of technology to consumers with continuous innovation. The HTC Touch Dual is the next step forward.”
 
Featuring a robust Qualcomm® MSM7200 chip running at 400MHz, the HTC Touch Dual™ with Windows Mobile software offers a rich and familiar experience that will enable users to stay connected and access the people, information and entertainment - most important to them - all from a single, personalized device.

Today, HTC also announced additional colour variant and a free, full screen virtual keypad for the original HTC Touch™. 

Pricing & Availability:

The HTC Touch Dual™ is available at all leading authorized retail outlets at a retail price of Rs. 29, 900 only.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


About HTC
Founded in 1997, High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) designs, manufactures and markets innovative, feature rich smartphone and PDA Phone devices.

Since its establishment, HTC has developed strong R&D capabilities, pioneered many new designs and product innovations and launched state-of-the-art PDA Phones and smartphones for mobile operators and distributors in Europe, the US, and Asia. These machines are available as HTC devices and as products individually customized for operator and device partners.

HTC is one of the fastest growing companies in the mobile device market. The company is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under ticker 2498.