HTC Touch Cruise (Eu, English, Gps)

by HTC

Product Details

• Item Weight: 4.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• ASIN: B0011Y567G
• Item model number: 99HDZ012-00
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #184,074 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

Product Description

The HTC Touch Cruise is sleek, stylish, and compact, but big on features and with an LCD screen size that gives you an excellent multimedia experience in a mobile device. Featuring HTC's innovative TouchFLO interface, the Touch Cruise is extremely easy to use. Using ordinary finger gestures, you can quickly browse through e-mails, web pages, messages, music, and images, making navigation a HTC Home vibrantly displays important information, such as real-time weather updates and a large easy-to-view clock. A quick application launcher provides easy access to favorite programs. HTC Home also gives you quick access to ring tone settings making it easy to adjust device sounds and alerts on the fly. The dynamic 3D Touch Cube interface enables you to quickly call contacts, open applications, listen to music, and browse media files.Built-in GPS functionality and the included software enable you to find the fastest route to your direction, locate restaurants and services on the way, and never get lost. Avoid traffic and delays, and take detours to visit points of interest and local attractions

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Some love it; Some hate it; Most should wait just a little longer, February 28, 2008

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Nicholas Christo (Austin, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HTC Touch Cruise (Eu, English, Gps) (Wireless Phone Accessory)

On paper, this phone has superior hardware and technical specifications compared to most other phones. It also has a current price that's much more than the iPhone and many other phones or pocket PCs. Unfortunately, with this phone, the software provided doesn't come close to taking full advantage of the hardware.

The video and other processing performance is sub-par and worse than earlier models of HTC phones. Though they supplied the hardware, HTC didn't include the driver software necessary to take advantage of this phones high-end processor potential. Primary processing speed is slower than many other phones (even when compared to phones with slower and cheaper CPU's) because of the driver issues and the fact that the new iPhone type user interface (called TouchFlo), is first-generation-clunky. If you aren't particularly interested in watching a lot of video on your phone, the video driver problem is of no consequence. However, the slower TouchFlo interface may be an irritant (four taps on the icon to open a program instead of one). For such an expensive product with a relatively fast processor, it should outperform every other phone on the market . . . but it doesn't come close.

Initially, HTC wouldn't commit to providing updated software to solve the performance problems. Very recently an HTC executive noted that HTC had changed its mind and will eventually provide "video acceleration software," as an alternative to providing better video drivers, and software as an update for the Touch Cruise. Unfortunately, when I called, HTC would not provide an estimated release date for the updates.

I'm not a big Apple fan, but with the iPhone 3G due out in July of 2008,I think most that are interested in this phone should wait a little longer to spend so much money.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HTC Cruise Review - awesome phone, April 27, 2008

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M. Roberts "Gadget Guru" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HTC Touch Cruise (Eu, English, Gps) (Wireless Phone Accessory)

Excellent phone. I did a lot of research looking for a smart phone. I narrowed it down to the Moto Q, Samsung Blackjack, and the Cruise and am very happy with my choice. Before this, I had an HP 6515 - my favorite features were the reset button and it's heft - you could use it to settle a dispute or prevent a car from rolling down the hills of Portland.
** The Cruise has been a very stable phone. It fits in my pocket, I can turn the LCD sideways (soft key) to get a landscape view. A Resco keyboard makes data entry simple and straightforward (although a wee bit less accurate than a hard keyboard).
** My biggest concern was compatibility with my carrier (as this is an unlocked phone). I was amazed that it worked out of the box with T-Mobile. Phone service works fine. EDGE (T-Mobile) in US is ok. But, best of all, this phone works very well in both Japan and Korea where they have proprietary protocols (PHS, PDC, Docomo 3G, and CDMA) - so this is truly a world phone.
** It gets better. Last week, I used Google map to walk around Shinjuku, Japan and Chaechon City, Korea. Got right to my location. Built-in TomTom GPS works great (one free city, others cost). I live in Portland and use this feature extensively. WiFi, Bluetooth (mono and stereo), FM radio, etc. all work just fine. Battery life is ok, but needs to be managed. The interface is a bit clunky, but can be programmed, so there are work arounds.
** Overall, I rate this phone very high - it beats the iPhone, Moto Q, Blackjack, Blackberry and other smart phones by a mile (my personal opinion). I am very happy with this product.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you need, February 17, 2008

By 

Alex Rodrigues (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HTC Touch Cruise (Eu, English, Gps) (Wireless Phone Accessory)

I bought this smartphone to replace a lot of devices I used to carry on my backpack, guess what... I did it.
I have everything in just one device, cell phone, contacts, emails, web browser, etc.
The sync works well so I can receive and reply emais even when out-of-office. The TouchFlo interface is amazing, very intuitive.
The cameras has great image and a lot of options and has a built-in GPS, believe me, that works.
Windows Mobile 6 was incredible improved.