Touchscreen PDA/Phone (HTC Touch Dual)

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Product:	HTC Touch Dual
Date:	16/07/08 (44 review reads)
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Advantages: Slick interface, lots of features, HSDPA internet

Disadvantages: Short Battery Life, No WiFi or GPS

The HTC Touch Dual is a high end pda/phone with features to match and a slick new TouchFlo menu interface which allows the user to quickly navigate favourite contacts, tasks and media by dragging your finger across the screen, as well as scrolling through large pages in a similar manner to that seen on the iPhone. This model is relatively new and is only available in the UK on T-mobile where unless you take out the most expensive combination of minutes and texts you will still be paying a small sum for the phone itself. Alternatively the phone can be purchased sim free, but this is an expensive option pushing £400. At this price you would be expecting a pretty flawless piece of technology but unfortunately the phone does suffer from a few major downfalls. When used all day - a few calls and texts, internet browsing and listening to music the battery life can be as low as 12 hours. In addition to this, the phone can sometimes seem slow and unresponsive - this is especially a problem when multiple applications are open.

On the plus side however, the phone offers a very good media player with a great audio booster to fine tune output through the headphones as well as good voice clarity in a call and a reasonably slick internet experience. I recommend downloading Opera or Opera Mini instead of the pre packaged Internet Explorer to take full advantage of the TouchFlo interface.

The phone comes with all the standard features you would expect from a phone and a PDA including a calendar, MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint, Games, MMS, and supports HSDPA and 3G web browsing where available, but does not support Wi-Fi or GPS which are both features seen in many similar phones.

Overall, this isn't a bad phone - it could just do with the odd tweak to turn it into a great one.

Summary: Pretty good, could be better though

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