6/05/2007

HTC's Touch with TouchFLO -- the Elf with new 3D sweep interface


HTC just made their "major" announcement. Are you ready for it... wait... it's the Elf now official with it's "Touch" street name. Right, the Windows Mobile device we first saw six months ago and already formally announced by 02 Germany as the Xda nova. HTC's big surprise? Well, the Touch is the first device to feature TouchFLO touchscreen technology "developed by HTC" -- though we think Microsoft had a little something to do with it. It's not multi-touch like the iPhone, but it does offer a "new and unique" way to sweet a finger (or stylus) across the screen to control the 3D interface. To recap, the diminutive 99.9 x 58 x 13.9mm Touch runs Windows Mobile 6 TouchFLO on a 2.8-inch display and OMAP850 processor while packing tri-band 900/1800/1900 GSM with EDGE, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, 1 GB microSD expansion included, and a 2 megapixel cam. Best of all, it's available now in the UK, later this month around Europe and Asia, and then North and Latin America in the 2nd half of the year.

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