Introduction, accessories
Once upon a time there was an HTC Touch, also known as “the answer to iPhone”. It was a pleasant little handset; it has brought many users to be its loving fathers, so it has bred descendants like Slide, Cruise and the young titans Diamond and Pro, who have made half of the world’s hearts go wild. But the father didn’t forget its pioneer son and so it has re-bred it (or cloned it?) and named it Viva… what?
I am sorry if I have made You, dear Reader, a bit mixed-up with the bit childish intro. The situation is that HTC has re-released the basic handset in this great wave of “Touches”, or maybe if it’s not the same, they still have identical hardware. But why? Surely because Touch and Dual have become outdated and they don’t have the user interface called TouchFLO 3D and that’s a real hit nowadays. However the 200 MHz TI OMAP is no hit at all and based on this it’s really hard to understand this decision of the manufacturer. But if we look a little bit closer we might have a completely different opinion – as HTC is no fool.
We have already published a review of the handset last week, where we have questioned the handset’s right to exist. But since then a new software has arrived, which in theory is still not final, but it is advanced enough to allow us to write a review of the phone supplied by SpeedShop. I wouldn’t have thought in my dreams that a new ROM can change the image of a handset in such a manner, but this is the situation. However, let’s not be so hasty. Since it’s not a final piece of hardware, the handset arrived in a white cardboard box and based on its size it could even have an IKEA kitchen furniture inside, but no, it has the PDA, a charger, a data cable and a stereo headset. This list of accessories might be different for the final edition that will be commercially available, but this is not very probable, because this is still an entry-level product.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
