Tech Shout!

The all-new HTC Touch Cruise mobile phone has now entered the Indian shores. The Touch Cruise, which is the third member in the Touch range of products, is the very first in the family to include an integrated GPS for personal navigation. In addition, it features HSDPA wireless connectivity too.

Furthermore, the chic black sapphire-colored HTC Touch Cruise handset includes the company’s TouchFLO technology, which improves the ability to finger touch scroll and browse web pages, documents, messages and contact lists, controlled by simply moving a finger across the screen. With TouchFLO you can also view photos and photo slideshows with the help of on-screen controls and zoom and rotate images with only one hand.

Ajay Sharma, Country Manager, HTC (India) stated, “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 Cruisewith fully integrated GPS adds another dimension to our leading touchscreen device family.”

The HTC Home screen offers the capability to gain one-touch access to emails, text messages, calendar appointments and contacts along with current weather conditions and forecasts for several cities across the globe. Users need to just touch their finger on display to launch an animated, three-dimensional interface comprising of three screens: Contacts, Media and Applications. Turn the interface by simply swiping a finger right or left across the display to get efficient access to the features consumers use most frequently.

The other key features of the HTC Touch Cruise mobile phone are:

Super fast HSDPA connectivity along with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

2.8-inch display

Operates on Windows Mobile 6 Professional

Integrated Windows Media Player

Includes MapKing R12 application for mapping and navigation solutions

3MP auto-focus camera

FM radio

microSD memory card slot for adding to the 256MB ROM and 128MB RAM

Includes WorldCard Mobile to manage business cards more proficiently

The HTC Touch Cruise mobile phone is priced at Rs. 32,990/- in the Indian market and will be available at all authorized resellers.