HTC Touch Pro2 Sprint- The Wait Was All Worth It

Sum n substance:

Thumbs up: Brilliant looks, great audio quality, decent call quality, impressive TouchFlo3D interface.

Thumbs down: Bad video streaming, exorbitant price, slow GPS acquisition.

THE WHIZ-KID SPEAKS: With the launch of this one, the best Windows mobile just got better. Finally after all the rumours doing the rounds Sprint and HTC Touch Pro2 have tied the knot. Like always Sprint always has something on offer for everyone and this time it’s the chance of power business users. This one comes loaded with features which are sure enough to satisfy the most fussy customers.

Razzle-dazzle: Jaw dropping looks… oozes out a lot of oomph as far as looks are concerned. Available in charcoal gray it’s got a classic contoured look. At 4.56 inches tall by 2.33 inches wide by 0.68 inch thick and 6.3 ounces this one is quite a clunky one. But I guess all the bulk accounts for all the features that it comes loaded with.

The screen is a 3.6-inch WVGA touch screen with support for about 262,000 colors at 480×800 pixels making browsing through the web, word processing etc. a pleasant experience. This one was responsive enough for being a resistive one. Also it has an efficient inbuilt accelerometer using which the orientation of the phone can be easily switched by rotating the phone.

Coming to the QWERTY keyboard, using this one was quite a delight with its comfortable spacing and large buttons. At the bottom of the device is a 3.5mm headphone jack with the volume controls on the left side of the device. And for all those who love their music loud it has 2 dual speakers at the back. What I didn’t like is that the memory card slot is behind the battery door which means that every time the user needs the card he or she will have to open the battery door.

Inside dope: This one offers dual-mode functionality which means GSM and CDMA together. When using within the country it works on the CDMA network aand while on roaming it works on the GSM network. While on roaming Sprint offers voice coverage in 180 countries and Data coverage in 150 countries. The other functionality that the Sprint mobile offers are HTC’s Straight Talk Technology, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Edition.

Navigation through the Windows has been made more easier with the TouchFlo 3D interface. There are also a few other tabs that Sprint has added too make navigation easy. In my opinion the TouchFlo 3D interface is what has to be looked forward to.

Its got a 3.2 megapixel camera which has five resolution modes along with four quality settings. The only glitch here is that it doesn’t offer flash, though to make up for it there are several brightness control settings. The video mode supports video capturing in any of the four formats i.e. H.263, 3GPP2, MEPG4, or H.264. the internal memory it has to offer is 288MB which can be extended too 16GB using a memory card. I wasn’t quite impressed with the picture quality, though the objects were quite distinguishable in the photos they weren’t all that sharp and always exhibited some amount of haziness. The video quality was not that great either being choppy at times with some interruptions. Also viewing videos on Youtube was not cumbersome, just that it took some time for the videos to get buffered. And the Sprint TV was a huge disappointment with none of the clips being played accurately with heavy interruptions here and there.

Coming to the call quality I must say that I found it absolutely mind blowing. Crisp sound without any interference and hardly any static and absolutely no background sounds. However on the callers end they were not all that satisfied. They experienced a bit of an echo. And they also added that when I was talking through the speakerphones some parts of the conversation would get cut.

Web browsing hardly took any time and the pages loaded within seconds using the Sprint’s  EV-DO Rev. A network. Compared to this the speed of the GPS facility was not that great. It took quite some time to get through the exact location but once it is started tracking it was quite efficient with the spoken commands being pretty much loud and audible and helped me too my way through the traffic.

The battery life has a rated talktime of  4 hours and can run on the standby mode for as long as 14 hours.

Nitty-gritty: This one comes a huge price tag for sure but it balances the features that are being offered with it. Its got lots of stuff to offer as compared to the one launched by T-mobile and the best being the 3.5mm headphone being offered. If your looking for unique high end features wallet is ready to take the blow then probably you could go ahead and get this one…

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