HTC Touch Cruise is the third HTC handset in the “Touch” product line, and it’s the most powerful and popular. This device is first to feature a built-in GPS for personal navigation.
Building on the popularity of the HTC Touch and the HTC Touch Dual, the Touch Cruise also has 3G-HSDPA wireless connectivity. Users on the move will easily be able to interact with the HTC Touch Cruise’s navigation functionality and can take advantage of HTC’s TouchFLO technology, which allows improved finger touch scrolling and browsing of Web pages, documents, messages and contacts.
HTC Touch Cruise’s fast HSDPA/3.5G connectivity along with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, makes HTC Touch Cruise a cool device for users who travel a lot.
It has a 2.8″ screen which makes it great for mobile multimedia. HTC Touch Cruise runs on Windows Mobile 6 Professional, the built-in Windows Media Player is great to play music and movies.
Another major feature is GPS - the HTC Touch Cruise gets the Cruise part of its name from the built-in GPS receiver and TomTom navigation software. In other words, the Touch Cruise will make a pretty decent SatNav unit.
It’s a quad-band GSM phone with tri-band UMTS - so it can be used on GSM and 3G networks worldwide. The Touch Cruise also has GPRS and EDGE data. Talktime is up to 4 hours for 3G, 7 hours for 2G with 16-18 days standby time. Overall, the Touch Cruise measures 110 x 58 x 15.5mm and weighs 130 grams.