HTC Touch Pro2 - huge'n'good

Hardware, operating system

If we take a look at the hardware we can see that the engineers didn’t really change it. HTC has been using the same Qualcomm MSM7201A CPU since a long time ago, this has been changed in Diamond2 to MSM7200A, and this is used in Pro2 as well – many users expect this chip to have no lagging at all when playing back MP3 songs, as there were some example for such problems in the case of the predecessors. The CPU has a clock speed of 528 MHz, which is an average one, but handsets from other manufacturers have proven that in the case of Windows Mobile handsets it’s not the raw power that counts, but optimization, as not matter that there is a 1 GHz processor inside a device if the drivers are badly written. Otherwise the chip’s features are up to date, just like the memory size. We have 512 MB ROM and 288 MB of RAM, we can use nearly 250 for storing data and about 70-80 megs for running programs – there is 95 MB available after boot, but as soon as we start some applications this will drop below 70 many times, even if we close running applications – this is a sign of a strong memory leak, fortunately the next ROM version will fix it. The storage can be expanded, the SDHC-compatible microSD slot can be accessed by taking the back panel off.

We could only use Pocket PC Mark from our usual benchmark software, as VsBenchmark doesn’t support displays that have an aspect ratio different from 4:3. Somehow the Whetstone CPU test didn’t run, but we can see from the other marks that HTC’s new handset has no speed issues at all.

The handset’s operating system is Windows Mobile Professional 6.1 – it’s already sure that there will be a free upgrade available for 6.5, but only Microsoft knows when will this happen. The graphical user interface is the well-known TouchFLO 3D, this is the latest edition we’ve already seen on Diamond2, thus it has all the features and software. Let’s see what these are!

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