Turning the Touch round - something its curvy, comfortable-to-hold casing makes you want to do again and again - there’s the 2.8in, 240 x 320 touch-sensitive screen overlaid with a sheet of clear plastic that makes the display seem to fill the front of the phone.

RegHardware Reviewed HTC Touch and gave out “HTC’s Touch is undeniably a smart-looking phone, but while it’s a stunner in pictures, in your hands it quickly becomes a fingerprint-plastered mess. Yes, it offers some neat touch-control improvements on the standard Windows Mobile 6 user interface, but for all the fancy visuals, it’s no iPhone.The trouble with all this TouchFlo stuff is that it’s only skin deep. Even LG’s Prada phone has a UI that feels designed for touch control and not tacked on to another OS. Too soon you drop into the standard, ugly-by-comparison Windows Mobile 6 look and feel.”

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HTC Touch is a beautiful little slab smartphone, a rounded black pebble of a piece with a big touch screen above two buttons and a five-way cursor rocker. On the back, there’s a 2-megapixel camera.

PCMag Reviewed HTC Touch and gave out “Since the Touch is an all-touch-screen device, figuring out how to get text into it is one of the phone’s big challenges. Microsoft’s on-screen keyboard is built for tiny miniature people, and alas, the full-screen transcriber had some real trouble with accuracy.The Touch also feels slow, a problem endemic to touch-screen Windows Mobile 5 or 6 devices with 200-MHz processors. (The T-Mobile MDA and Wing have the same issue.) Sometimes the virtual buttons took several presses to respond. Launching applications, especially Windows Media Player, feels gummy.”
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The new Touch design is dominated by that 2.8-inch LCD touchscreen with backlight, 240 x 320 dots resolution with 65K colour screen and only has room for three buttons on the front - a call, a hang up and d-pad for moving around should your finger gliding skills desert you.

Pocket-lint.co.uk Reviewed HTC Touch P3450 and gave out ” The good:Touchscreen, interface, Wi-Fi.The bad:No 3G, on-screen QWERTY keyboard small.We say:A good strong offering from HTC and one that will certainly give Apple a run for its money.”

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HTC has launched the innovative Touch, a half-inch-thick touchscreen phone that responds to the swipe of a finger.

LaptopMag Reviewed HTC Touch P3450 and gave out ” With a look that better resembles a super-skinny PDA than a traditional mobile phone, the 3.9 x 2.2 x 0.5-inch HTC Touch, and designed homescreen sits on top of Windows Mobile 6 and provides one-touch access to weather forecasts, appointments, and other essential data.A triband (900/1800/1900-MHz) unlocked phone, the Touch uses a GPRS/EDGE connection for surfing the Web when you’re out of hotspot range, which made visiting image-heavy sites like CNN.com a patience test. The Touch also supports stereo Bluetooth for jamming to your favorite MP3, AAC, and WMA files.”

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The release of HTC Touch is, without vanity, even if not a revolution in the world of Windows Mobile, then decidedly, a remarkable event.

Mobile-Review Reviewed HTC Touch P3450 and gave out “One of the mentioned specific features of the communicator was the 3G support, while the rest of its spec sheet was pretty much par for the course, which automatically stuck the “budget” stamp on it.The first thing you run into, apart from very portable dimensions – the screen surface. We have already come to expect it to be recessed into the casing, which is due to several reasons: first, for the sake of its safety, and then to reduce the number of scratches and scuffs it picks up. In the Elf however, it is not. The display’s surface is mounted flush with the front fascia. Apparently, it’s been made not for design’s sake alone, but also to make for easier stylus-less device management.Another step towards out of the ordinary controls scheme is forgoing navigation buttons. The Elf’s front plate houses only the five-way navigation control and pick/hang up keys.”

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The HTC P4350, which runs Windows Mobile 5.0 (that’s not the new and exciting 6.0, then). It sports a QWERTY keyboard which flicks out from the right hand side, and a nice brushed rubber feel casing.

Shiny Shiny Reviewed HTC P4350 and gave out “The keys themselves are slightly domed, so you’ve got less chance of hitting the wrong one. There’s also a handy LED light which indicates when you’ve got the shift or caps lock on. As far as programmes are concerned, you get the mobile versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint, for all that Important Serious Stuff, as well as an Audio Manager for your music and a 2 megapixel camera (no flash though).”
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The HTC P4350’s feature set is, for the most part, strong. Certainly if you’re looking for a connected handheld with a keyboard and you don’t need 3G data speeds, then it’s worth considering.

CNET Reviewed HTC P4350 and gave out “We like:Usable slide-out keyboard; quad-band GSM phone with GPRS and EDGE support; Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity.We don’t like:Lacks 3G connectivity.CNET.co.uk judgement:The HTC P4350 has a strong feature set but is let down by the fact that it runs Windows Mobile 5.0 rather than the recently released version 6. We wish it had 3G connectivity, too”
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HTC P4350 Collection By digitalBoy:
The HTC P4350 is a quad-band PDA phone that comes in a slim and compact package but gives you everything you need for a mobile device.

Armed with a full QWERTY keyboard that easily slides out, entering information has never been faster and easier. The large 2.8″ screen gives you enough room to read files and browse the Web comfortably.Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 with Direct Push technology lets you get updates to your e-mail, tasks and contacts immediately. With GPRS/EDGE, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, you stay connected at any time, any place. Use the built-in 2.0 megapixel camera to take pictures and record video. Keep yourself entertained by playing back music and video using Windows Media Player.

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We like the Ameo because it takes a different approach to Windows Mobile. But we aren’t sure it is a serious replacement for a mobile phone, and as a connected PDA it is clever but also rather large for the pocket or bag.

ITReviews Reviewed T-Mobile HTC Ameo and gave out “The Ameo is a Windows Mobile Pocket PC, with plenty of features crammed in including GPS, 3G support and Wi-Fi. The Ameo has an 8GB hard drive whirring around inside it, giving it a huge amount of storage compared to other Windows Mobile devices. It has an SD card slot too.Its huge screen measures five inches from corner to corner, and while you can hold it to your ear to make voice calls it is rather large for this. Its real forté is video calls, as it can show both you and the caller in large on-screen windows.”
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The HTC Ameo is a Windows Mobile-powered device which boasts a 5-inch touchscreen display and detactable QWERTY keyboard unlike anything currently available on the market.

Pocket-lint.co.uk Reviewed T-Mobile Ameo and gave out “The good:Big screen, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, detactable keyboard.The bad:Keyboard should have been Bluetooth, keyboard doubling-up as cover should have better fixing.”

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