HTC MOBILE: HTC Touch Pro2

HTC Touch Pro2

The Touch Pro2's 3.6-inch touchscreen display seems enormous, even though it's marginally smaller than the 3.8-inch display on the HTC Touch HD. The screen's impressive WVGA resolution is sharp and clear, showing off the clean graphics of HTC's excellent TouchFLO 3D user interface. By default our review unit was set to auto-adjust backlight, which is great for power-saving, but we found the screen hard to read at lower brightness levels (particularly under direct sunlight), so we set the screen to a fixed brightness to compensate. The Touch Pro2 comes with a stylus in case you have difficulty using the screen, but in our experience this stylus will probably go unused.

The exterior of the handset is mostly devoid of sockets and switches. The same socket is used for recharging and headphones on the base of the phone, there's a volume rocker on the left side and a power button on top that you'll also use regularly to set the phone to standby mode. Like the Touch Diamond2, the Touch Pro2 has a nifty zoom panel under the screen, used to zoom in on web pages or in the photo gallery.