HCT Touch 3G is one of the most popular smart phones of HTC. The first unique feature of this phone is broad range of color cases. The company has really deviated from its traditional standard palette of greys and blacks, now one can find this handset in mustard or coffee color. The Touch 3G gives impression of being true successor of Touch Diamond and Touch Dual handsets, due to its rounded alien-head-shaped design. Other to it, 102x53mm tall and 14mm deep structure and its five-way navigation key very much resembles with Dual's physical dimensions.



Alike its predecessor Touch HD, the Touch 3G has many similar features, such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi plus USB for intranet connections, HSDPA with download facility up to 7.2Mbps. This smartphone possess inbuilt GPS receiver. One of the most significant features for fashion-conscious people is that, this Touch 3G phones can easily run on HTC's modified edition of Windows Mobile 6.1, due to its TouchFlo 3D interface shell. The best thing with HTC is that you have a long range of varieties and you feel great freedom while choosing your smartphone.

A very interesting question comes in the mind of people that when Touch HD and Touch 3G has almost the same features, then why Touch 3G is cheaper then the other. Well! This can only be answered by HTC's core management's marketing group. Why they have launched another touchscreen Windows Mobile phone without any substantial differences? They may be having some specific market strategy. The launch of Touch Dual and Touch Cruise at the start of 2008 in quick succession provides us some clue. It seems that the company wants to target different group of consumers with specific features i.e. those who want keypad and those do not, plus totally Cruise focused GPS.

One of the reasons for HTC Touch 3G being cheaper to Touch HD may be less RAM (192 MB) capacity. This may be designed keeping in mind to specific target audience, those whose are less concerned about memory space. Other to it, both phones has nearly the same features, with 528MHz processor. Far better than sluggish Touch Diamond.

Features of HTC Touch 3G smartphone:

? Battery allows 6 hours of uninterrupted talktime, with standby time of 450 hours.

? Camera resolution is 3 megapixel.

? Network connectivity: GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900, UMTS 2100.

? Wireless technology: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth, plus USB and GPS receiver.

? Screen display resolution: 240 x 320 pixels, with 65k number of colors.

? Entertainment: Video player and multiple games.

? Functionality: Touchscreen, ringtone has options of Monophonic, Polyphonic and MP3.

? Digital camera and synchronization methods (USB2.0, ActiveSync).

? Operating system: Windows Mobile 6.1 with AAC, AAC+, MP3, WMA supported audio file formats.

? Supported video and picture file formats are WMV and JPG respectively.

? Equipped with Web browser and Java.

? General dimensions are 102 wide x 56 deep x 14 mm high.

Overall, this smartphone is very comfortable and attractive, much better than rigid designs of other companies like LG, Palm & Nokia.