HTC Touch delivers new touch screen experience

HTC Corp., a leading provider of Microsoft Windows Mobile-based smart devices, announced the global launch of the HTC Touch, a deceptively small and stylish mobile phone that ushers in an innovative new concept in intuitive touch screen navigation.

Building on HTC’s rich 10-year history of mobile phone innovations, the HTC Touch represents extensive research and development and the conviction that fingertip control will enable more efficient, natural and intuitive touch screen navigation.

The HTC Touch offers a new and unique way of controlling touch screen-based devices by recognizing and responding to the sweep of a finger across the screen. It is even intelligent enough to distinguish between finger and stylus input and then responds accordingly.

“With the HTC Touch, accessing your most commonly used content, contacts and features is only a simple finger flick away,” said Peter Chou, HTC chief executive officer. “Mobile phone makers have done a great job of cramming ever-more exciting features into ever-smaller phones. But the way in which one accesses these increasingly sophisticated features has not kept pace. That ends today with the HTC Touch.”

The new HTC-designed home screen provides one-touch access to e-mails, text messages, calendar appointments and contacts, as well as weather conditions and forecasts for hundreds of cities around the world.

The HTC Touch, which has a 2.0-megapixel CMOS camera, is the first device to feature TouchFLO, the new underlying touch screen technology developed by HTC. Consumers simply sweep their finger up the display to launch an animated, three-dimensional interface comprising three screens: Contacts, Media, and Applications.

The interface can be spun by swiping a finger right or left across the display, providing efficient access to the features consumers use most. TouchFLO also enhances finger touch scrolling and browsing of Web pages, documents, messages, and contact lists.

Leveraging the broad functionality of Windows Mobile 6 Professional, the HTC Touch includes Outlook Mobile, Office Mobile, Windows Live and the capabilities to run thousands of third-party applications.

Users can surf the Web with Internet Explorer, send and receive e-mails, chat on Messenger, and send files to their own web space through Windows Live.

The HTC Touch, which weighs 112 grams (with battery) and measures 99.9 x 58 x 13.9 mm, from HTC Asia is available from all authorized resellers.