The HTC Touch Cruise has a beautiful 2.8 inch TFT resistive touch screen display with a resolution of 240x320 pixels and the ability to display 65k colors. The phone comes with hand writing recognition to make writing easy, and also a 4-way navigation key to make navigation on the phone easier.

The HTC Touch Cruise has no 3.5mm audio jack, this means you have to use the bundled headphones to listen to your favourite music. To help you get all your music on the phone, the HTC Touch Cruise has a 256 MB of ROM and 128 MB of RAM. But if you think this is not enough storage for you, you can extent the storage capacity using a microSD card.

The HTC Touch Cruise features GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA up to 3.6 Mbps, Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g), Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, and a miniUSB v2.0 port for PC connectivity and charging.

The HTC Touch Cruise has a 3.15MP autofocus camera which has the ability to take pictures with a maximum resolution of 2048x1536 pixels. The HTC Touch Cruise also records video at VGA resolution. For video calling junkies, there is a VGA front-facing camera, or secondary camera.

The HTC Touch Cruise runs on a 528 MHz ARM 11 processor and has a dedicated Adreno 130 GPU. The setup is housed on a Qualcomm MSM7200 chipset. The HTC Touch Cruise runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional as the OS. The phone also has GPS and support for A-GPS.

To support all this, the HTC Touch Cruise is given a standard 1350 mAh Li-ion battery which gives a standby time of up to 450 hours and a talk time of up to 7 hours."; $review2 = "The smart phone market is not just targeting corporates and geeks anymore. HTC has introduced some power packed high to middle end touch phones to capture everyone who wants to own an affordable smart phone. HTC Touch Cruise is such a feature packed phone from HTC that includes everything that you will expect from a smart phone.

2.8\" touch screen QVGA display occupies much of the real estate in the front. Considering that Touch Cruise was introduced a couple of years back, the screen was in par with those standards. However, sunlight readability is very poor and HTC has come a long way in that aspect with its latest mobile phones range. Touch Cruise is more of a pocket PC, but this phone is lighter and thinner than the previous mobile phones from HTC that have hit the market. Below the touch screen, there are Call and End keys along with a navigation wheel. Two interesting shortcuts - for GPS and IE are provided to offer quick launching of respective applications.

The must used and overused Windows Mobile 6 Professional operating system is used in HTC Touch Cruise and HTC has made the interface interesting with its TouchFlo interface. Powered by a 400Mhz Qualcomm processor, Cruise performs reasonably well. The touch screen is very responsive, thanks to the new and improved interface from HTC.

As far as multimedia options are concerned, HTC Touch Cruise is not developed to provide such an entertainment, but the audio and video players are good enough. However, only low resolution videos were played by the player and movies that have near VGA resolution must be converted before playing those on Touch Cruise. The 3 megapixel camera is good enough and it is capable of recording MPEG4 videos.

The quadband GSM phone also supports tri band 3G networks and for high speed internet connection, you can also use Wi-Fi. Local connectivity can be established using Bluetooth and the phone just has it all for those who want to stay connected. Aside from IE, an option to use Opera browser is also available. The essential feature of Touch Cruise is the GPS software, but there are no preloaded apps. If you are not satisfied with the pre-installed TomTom 6 Navigator, you can download other navigation programs. "; include 'phone.php'; ?>