HTC launches the Touch Cruise mobile phone in India, expanding its HTC Touch products family in the country. Though HTC Touch Cruise is the third member of this proud family, it is the first one to feature built-in GPS. This stylish and powerful phone brings navigation at your fingertips with TouchFLO technology and its integrated GPS. It includes HSDPA wireless connectivity.
The TouchFLO technology enhances finger touch scrolling and browsing of web pages, documents, messages and contact lists just by moving your finger across the screen. You can view photos and photo slide shows using the on screen controls and also zoom and rotate images using one hand with the TouchFLO technology.
Ajay Sharma, Country Manager, HTC (India) said, “The HTC Touch Cruise is our latest offering in our continuous commitment of ushering in technologically advanced and top of the line converged devices in India. The original HTC Touch has already proved to be a phenomenal success in India, and the HTC Touch Cruise with fully Integrated GPS adds another dimension to our leading touchscreen device family.”
It is a good example of HTC’s commitment towards innovation and building a suite of touchscreen devices which meet the needs and style of a large segment of customers. HTC Touch Cruise comes in Black Sapphire and features 2.8-inch screen, 3 megapixel auto focus camera, FM Radio, microSD memory card slot where you can add 256MB ROM and 128 MB RAM. This stylish and sleek phone also boasts about its super fast HSDPA connectivity, WiFi and Bluetooth.
HTC Home screen includes features such as one touch access to emails, text messages, calendar appointments and contacts. You can sweep you finger across the display and launch an animated and three dimensional interface. It runs on Windows Mobile 6 Professional and also has a built-in Windows Media Player. It has utilized mapping and navigation from MapKing R12 application. In addition to all this it comes with a WorldCard Mobile thus helps you manage business cards more efficiently.
The HTC Touch Cruise is priced at Rs. 32,990/- (retail) and is available at all authorized resellers. Push Mail is only available when teamed with servers operating on Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 updated to SP2 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.