HTC Touch Pro 2: I want one

HTC Touch Pro 2

I’ve always been a sucker for a good smartphone. Right back when they weren't phones at all but SIM free PDAs and I had a Psion 3 then a Psion 5 I’ve been a fan.

Pretty much every PDA and smartphone to hit the UK has passed through my hands, and I’ve reviewed a good many of them here at ZDNet.

The HTC Touch Pro 2 is the latest to land on my desk, and I have to say it has really hit the spot.

I come to the smartphone world as a ‘data-centric’ user. I want my documents, my lists, my cache of other files, the ability to create and edit documents on the fly, and the ability to use the Web efficiently. So I like good keyboards and big screens. This is why the Touch Pro 2 hits the spot for me.

Standout features are its tilting screen and good qwerty keyboard.

I’ve only just left the HTC TyTN II behind having used it since the tail end of 2007 as my main mobile device. I swapped it for the larger screened HTC Touch HD and really miss the tilt.

Well, the Touch Pro 2 brings the tilting screen back. You can raise the screen to an angle of 50 degrees from the slide-out keyboard and that is a real selling point for me. The large screen – just a shade smaller than that of the Touch HD (3.6-inches vs 3.8-inches), has the same 480 x 800 pixel resolution and is super sharp and bright.

There’s a lot more to like, but to go on would be to pre-empt my review which will appear at this Web site soon. Suffice it to say, ‘I want one’.