We don’t normally post news items here at MobileJaw; we figure people are already inundated with repetitious news. However, since this is the first device announced to be available with Windows Mobile 6.5 I figured we can get away with it.
The HTC Touch2 is a relatively small Windows Phone that will indeed ship with Windows Mobile 6.5 onboard. It is meant to be a simple and affordable (I’m assuming here) device with fairly generic features. Those features include a 528MHz processor, 512MB ROM, 256MB RAM and a 3.2 megapixel camera.
The screen is a 2.8 inch touchscreen but is only QVGA. I guess that’s not surprising but compared to so many other devices it is a rather anemic resolution. I enjoyed using my HTC Touch (first gen) and was fine with the screen but now that I have been using the Touch Pro (VGA screen) it would be hard to go back to QVGA.
One of the nice things announced with this device is that it’s browser, an IE 6 variant that comes with Windows Mobile 6.5, will support flash. That should make for a decent browsing experience.
The HTC Touch2 seems like it will be targeted to the budget-conscious or first time Windows Mobile users. It looks nice, if fairly uninspiring and will probably be a nice low end smartphone.
You can read HTC’s press release here.
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