{"id":6932,"date":"2008-06-05T06:31:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T06:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/htc-touch-pro.html"},"modified":"2008-06-05T06:31:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T06:31:41","slug":"htc-touch-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/htc-touch-pro.html","title":{"rendered":"HTC Touch Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/htc-touch-pro.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/asia.tmcnet.com\/news\/2008\/06\/04\/3481919.htm\">HTC Touch Pro<\/a> may be the ultimate Blackberry killer. I know the term &quot;killer&quot; is used very often but let&#8217;s look at this situation carefully&#8230; People who type a lot benefit from a keyboard. Sure, an on-screen keyboard works but it is not ideal. I beleive one of the reasons the Blackberry does well is because it has a great keyboard and the OS is very stable.<\/p>\n<p>Getting back to HTC, the Touch Pro gives you HSPA, WiFi, 640&#215;480 resolution, Windows Mobile 6.1, a 3.2 megapixel camera and more. In fact, if the device is half as good as the specs lead me to believe, it will become a new benchmark for mobile products.<\/p>\n<p>The one downside is Windows Mobile which quite honestly needs work. I haven&#8217;t used 6.1 but prior version of Windows Mobile products are known to freeze and many people I speak with have stopped using Microsoft mobile devices because of this problem coupled with lousy battery life.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I carry 1-2 extra batteries with wherever I go so I don&#8217;t run out of juice at a critical time.<\/p>\n<p>The device will be available later this year and no word on Verizon\/Sprint support at the moment. This is yet one more reason to switch to GSM. One wonders if the upcoming iPhone will also feature 640&#215;480 resolution. If not it will be at a major disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that this is the year where mobile devices have truly taken the leap to allow you to truly surf the web on the go. I find this a very exciting time to be in the communications and technology market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HTC Touch Pro may be the ultimate Blackberry killer. I know the term &quot;killer&quot; is used very often but let&#8217;s look at this situation carefully&#8230; People who type a lot benefit from a keyboard. Sure, an on-screen keyboard works but it is not ideal. I beleive one of the reasons the Blackberry does well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,168,171,172,199,188,118,174,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}