HTC Touch Pro

[Obvious]

Got this from my Sprint Rep today

Bellevue, Wash. — Oct. 24, 2008 — HTC Corporation, a global leader in mobile phone innovation and design, today launched the HTC Touch™ Pro for Sprint. Bringing a beautiful new angle to mobile business productivity, the HTC Touch Pro uses styling and functionality similar to the recently launched HTC Touch Diamond™ and introduces a variety of business-focused enhancements that make getting work done on-the-go quick and easy.

The HTC Touch Pro is priced at $299.99 with a two-year subscriber agreement, after a $100 mail-in-rebate and a $25-or-higher data add-on or Everything plan with data. Customers will be able to purchase the device in select national retailers beginning the week of Oct. 26 and in all Sprint sales channels, including online at www.sprint.com, 1-800-SPRINT1 and Sprint Stores, on Nov. 2.

“People have already shown a tremendous initial response to the HTC Touch Diamond for Sprint, and we are pleased to also offer the HTC Touch Pro as another choice to customers,” said Jason Mackenzie, vice president for HTC America. “The HTC Touch Pro is the perfect device for those who demand the ease of use of TouchFLO 3D and the styling of the HTC Touch Diamond but also crave a more powerful mobile business experience.”

The HTC Touch Pro is a professional workhorse that allows people to balance their professional and personal lives in ways that matter most to them. Building on the strong feature set found on the HTC Touch Diamond, the HTC Touch Pro adds a five-row, slide-out QWERTY keyboard for easy data entry, expandable storage capabilities with a microSD card slot (1 GB card included) and a business card scanner application to automatically capture and convert business card information to the contact list using the built-in 3.2 MP camera/camcorder. Additionally, with Windows Mobile 6.1, users have access to security and device management capabilities demanded by many business customers. “The HTC Touch Pro marks the addition of yet another robust Windows Mobile device for our portfolio and demonstrates our commitment to delivering the best wireless technology today,” said Kevin Packingham, Sprint senior vice president of Product and Technology Development. “Combined with worry-free pricing and exclusive Sprint content, the HTC Touch Pro delivers an unparalleled user experience – all on Sprint’s Now Network.”

Sprint customers will have direct animated access to arrange their favorite contacts, photos, weather and music by using HTC’s intuitive TouchFLO 3D interface. By combining a rich, dynamic presentation with integrated multi-media features, people have the ability to graphically personalize their device with 3D animated transitions.

Lightning Fast Connectivity

The HTC Touch Pro for Sprint provides a mobile Internet experience that uses the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network. With EV-DO Rev. A technology access, the HTC Touch Pro provides customers with blazing fast speeds that reach more than 253 million people, 16,986 cities and 1,625 airports and brings customers instant gratification so they stay connected to life and work fast and on-the-go. With EV-DO Rev. A, peak download data rates increase to 3.1 Mbps and peak upload data rates increase to 1.8 Mbps; average download speeds improve to 600 Kbps to 1.4 Mbps and average uplink speeds increase to 350 Kbps to 500 Kbps.

Beyond this lightning-fast connectivity, customers can also interact with their device in new ways. With the new HTC Touch Pro for Sprint, users can zoom and pan Web sites and automatically view optimized content that has been specially created to fit the display. Using gravity-sensor technology, turning the device sideways automatically rotates the Web page view from a portrait to landscape view.

In addition to game-changing Web browsing, the HTC Touch Pro offers direct access to exclusive Sprint content, including live and on-demand programming from Sprint TV® as well as over-the-air song downloads from the Sprint Music StoreSM and even a custom YouTube application for watching a variety of user-generated video content.

Unmatched Style With Complete Productivity

Like the HTC Touch Diamond, the HTC Touch Pro is crafted with precision to fit comfortably in a user’s hand and brings together elegant touch screen response with the direct precision of HTC’s distinctive sliding keyboard design. A new five-row QWERTY keyboard layout makes typing-intensive tasks like composing email or working on Microsoft Office® documents quick and easy. Built-in TV-out functionality means users can deliver the perfect PowerPoint® presentation from the Touch Pro.

Bursting with Innovation

The Touch Pro delivers an unrivalled combination of features and functionality. The 2.8 inch display provides near-print quality viewing that enables beautiful Web browsing and viewing of photographs. The built-in camera includes an optical auto-focus lens that ensures the photos you take will be clear and consistent. Advanced wireless and auto sensor screen pivoting are just a few of the features that make the Touch Pro experience stand out.

Unmatched Customer Experience

Customers purchasing devices at Sprint retail locations can get the most out of their phone by having it personalized just for them before they leave the store. With Ready Now, Sprint retail associates work with new or existing customers to explain, set up and demonstrate the features and applications of their new phone.

Sprint’s Ready Now program is a first in the industry – no other wireless company offers a similar customer experience. The service is available whenever the customer wants it during business hours; however, only existing Sprint customers have the option to schedule an appointment online by visiting www.sprint.com/readynow.

To take advantage of all the great features on these new phones without having to worry about additional monthly charges, Sprint customers can sign up for the $99.99 Simply EverythingSM plan, which includes unlimited domestic calling, messaging, email, Web surfing, GPS navigation, Sprint Music Premier, Sprint TV® Premier, NFL Mobile Live, NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile, Direct Connect and Group Connect on compatible phones. The Simply Everything plan is available to current customers without renewing their contract. New lines of service require a two-year agreement.

Key HTC Touch Pro Specifications

Size: 4.17 (L) x 2.05(W) x 0.70 (D)
Weight: 5.3 ounces
Connectivity: CDMA 2000 1X/EVDO Rev.A/1xRTT and IS-95A/B voice or data. Dual band (800 and 1900 MHz)
Operating system: Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
Display: 2.8-inch VGA touch screen
Camera: 3.2MP, with autofocus, flash and video calling
Internal memory: 512 MB flash, 288 MB RAM
Expansion slot: microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible); supports up to 16 GB
Keyboard: Slide-out five-row QWERTY keyboard
Bluetooth: v2.0 with A2DP support (Stereo Bluetooth)
Wireless: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
GPS: GPS/AGPS
(mini-USB and audio jack in one; USB 2.0äInterface: HTC ExtUSB High-Speed)
Battery: 1340 mAh
Talk time: 250 minutes
528MHzä MSM 7201AÒChipset: Qualcomm

[feis]

The HTC Touch Pro is priced at $299.99 with a two-year subscriber agreement, after a $100 mail-in-rebate and a $25-or-higher data add-on or Everything plan with data.

Wonder if SERO users will need a data plan. If so, the data plan would increase by monthly bill by 50%.

[RaginCajun55]

When is the Pro supposed to be coming to ATT? Any hard facts on a drop date?

[Lexball50]

Got Sero, just got the Pro from best buy this morning and my plan is still the same.

[ShadowDrake]

Talked to a rep and got set up with SERO and the touch pro... $400 up front, and there's the damn rebate... so this does work with SERO. Can't wait for mine to show up!

[SoLaYzee]

Talked to a rep and got set up with SERO and the touch pro... $400 up front, and there's the damn rebate... so this does work with SERO. Can't wait for mine to show up!

Sorry, but what is SERO?

[Edubble]

When is the Pro supposed to be coming to ATT? Any hard facts on a drop date?

From another post (can't find it), the launch date should be Nov. 4th.

[ShadowDrake]

Sorry, but what is SERO?

SERO stands for Sprint Employee Referral Offer.

Basically you get:

500 minutes per month
unlimited everything else (text, data, etc)

for $60/month... the same plan is a considerable bit more traditionally. Everyone is able to get SERO, provided you live in a REAL Sprint area, and not just an affiliate area (even if you do, and have a friend in another area who is able to get it, sign up using their address, change it first bill, and port a local number in).

More information can be found here (yay hofo wiki) http://wiki.howardforums.com/index.php/SPRINT_SERO

[natalie1981]

SERO stands for Sprint Employee Referral Offer.

Basically you get:

500 minutes per month
unlimited everything else (text, data, etc)

for $60/month... the same plan is a considerable bit more traditionally. Everyone is able to get SERO, provided you live in a REAL Sprint area, and not just an affiliate area (even if you do, and have a friend in another area who is able to get it, sign up using their address, change it first bill, and port a local number in).

More information can be found here (yay hofo wiki) http://wiki.howardforums.com/index.php/SPRINT_SERO

Sounds like a nice plan. Wish my carrier has something similar.

[jay.see]

How is the internet browsing on the Touch Pro compared to the iPhone? I'm deciding between the two and can't decide b/c while browsing on the iPhone is sweet I really want a keyboard. thanks in advance.

[VOLVORacr]

Oddly enough Best Buy has display models (but not any for sale), but if you were a normal person in a Sprint store you wouldn't even know it's coming out.

I think Sprint has really shot themselves in the foot here in not getting the phone out on schedule, considering that the Fuze is supposedly coming on the 4th.

I think it was done purposely to come out the same day as the new rate plans.

[plugged.in]

so it DOES have 850 for 3g in canada?

[spivey8]

Got my Touch Pro from Best Buy today with the 20% off by showing them then rewards program on the best buy website. Hurry and get yours before Nov 1st so you can get the 20% off.

Also my Sero 500 30.00 plan is the same

From a Mogul to Touch Pro VERY NICE.

[asto_86]

ive had my touch pro for about a month now... and i hate to say it.. but i dont like it. this is my first win mobile phone, and i just find it very... hmm.. crappy, lol. yes everything on it works great, but its little things that really piss me off with this phone. my number 1 peeve is that it locks up prolly once per day for a reason unknown to me.. haha. for example, ill have 0 apps running, text message comes in as soon as i happen to slide open the keyboard.. BAM.. locked up. thats happened a couple times this week. or if you turn up or down the volume then turn the screen off, 30% of the time when you turn the screen back on.. its nothing but static. and just how laggy it can be in general. yes i was excited and loved it the first week i had it, for 700 bucks who wouldnt be, but then i started noticing the things that i dont like, and realized that i was just fine with my w810i. which brings me to another point.. i HATE the camera on this phone.. if the lighting is not studio bright, and you target is moving a tiny bit.. whole pic is blurred. now outside, the pics are great.. but i have yet to take a good pic indoors with this phone. the camera was a huge let down for me. anyways, i guess the point of this post was to take some of the hype out of you folks who are super excited to get the phone, lol.. it just reminded me how i was, and how i feel now.
ps.. i think im gonna go to the x1

edit** i just thought i would add what i do enjoy about the phone. i prolly use the most out of the gps. google maps works very nice on it. i like how it will show me the weather whenever i want too. oh! i also love connecting it to my lappy and getting internet anywhere. dont really use the media player much. i like how it scans my email every 5 minutes looking for new mail. i like the calendar on it. and the internet works out ok.. gets me by if i cant get to a computer.

[just_visiting]

ive had my touch pro for about a month now... and i hate to say it.. but i dont like it. this is my first win mobile phone, and i just find it very... hmm.. crappy, lol. yes everything on it works great, but its little things that really piss me off with this phone. my number 1 peeve is that it locks up prolly once per day for a reason unknown to me.. haha. for example, ill have 0 apps running, text message comes in as soon as i happen to slide open the keyboard.. BAM.. locked up. thats happened a couple times this week. or if you turn up or down the volume then turn the screen off, 30% of the time when you turn the screen back on.. its nothing but static. and just how laggy it can be in general. yes i was excited and loved it the first week i had it, for 700 bucks who wouldnt be, but then i started noticing the things that i dont like, and realized that i was just fine with my w810i. which brings me to another point.. i HATE the camera on this phone.. if the lighting is not studio bright, and you target is moving a tiny bit.. whole pic is blurred. now outside, the pics are great.. but i have yet to take a good pic indoors with this phone. the camera was a huge let down for me. anyways, i guess the point of this post was to take some of the hype out of you folks who are super excited to get the phone, lol.. it just reminded me how i was, and how i feel now.
ps.. i think im gonna go to the x1

edit** i just thought i would add what i do enjoy about the phone. i prolly use the most out of the gps. google maps works very nice on it. i like how it will show me the weather whenever i want too. oh! i also love connecting it to my lappy and getting internet anywhere. dont really use the media player much. i like how it scans my email every 5 minutes looking for new mail. i like the calendar on it. and the internet works out ok.. gets me by if i cant get to a computer.

What u need is a cooked rom and ur problems will all be gone. Everyone familiar with winmobile knows that a stock rom sucks ****.