HTC Touch Pro review: Heavyweight pro

HTC Touch Pro is adding some heavy firepower to the Touch Diamond campaign for domination of the WinMo realm. The new pro by HTC is a true all-rounder, with multimedia and navigation just part of its ammo, and has every premise of becoming the most complete Windows-powered device to date.

Key features
2.8" 65K-color touchscreen VGA display 
Five row full QWERTY slide-out keyboard of brilliant ergonomics 
TouchFLO 3D Home screen and gesture controls 
Wi-Fi 
Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 Mhz CPU and 288 MB DDR SDRAM 
Dedicated graphics chip (64MB RAM reserved for graphics) 
HSDPA 7.2Mbps 
Built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS 
microSD memory expansion 
Stereo FM radio with RDS 
3.15 MP auto focus camera 
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support 
Active magnetic stylus 
Touch-sensitive scroll wheel 
Standard miniUSB port and Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP 
TV out 
Teeter game aboard 
Cool YouTube client 
Excellent video playback performance 
MS Office Mobile document editor 
Opera 9.5 web browser 

Main disadvantages:
Rather bulky and heavy 
Fingerprint-prone front panel 
Average sunlight legibility 
No standard 3.5mm audio jack 
Back panel design hurts usability 
Limited scroll wheel usage 
No adequate storage memory out of the box

Nokia N79

The bar-shaped Nokia N79 has a bit more modest feature list but has better (or so it seems to us) looks and a more compact boy. It still supports all the four GSM bands but the 3G works only on the 900 and 2100 MHz bands. The display on the N79 is a 2.4" QVGA TFT unit, capable of showing up to 16M colors. Wi-Fi, GPS and a 5 megapixel camera are some of its other more important features.

Nokia N79 also sports FM radio and FM transmitter, allowing you to broadcast your favorite tracks within a short range over radio waves.

Nokia N79, much like the N85, features the touch sensitive Navi wheel navigation solution which we first came to know in the Nokia N81. The N79 also has a 3.5mm audio jack and will ship with a 4GB memory card.

A novel feature of the Nokia N79 is its easily customizable exterior (and interior). The handset will come with two extra Xpress-on covers in the retail package and additional ones can also be purchased. When you put a new back cover on, the N79 recognizes its color and can automatically change the interface theme color to match it.

Nokia N79 will hit the shelves in Canvas White and Seal Grey color versions in October and will cost Rs.20,600 approx before taxes or subsides.

Chances are you've already known these details, so we guess you might be more interested in some real life photos and our first impressions. Hit the jump for some of that.

Nokia N85

The Nokia N85 sports a dual slide design much like the Nokia N95, but the controversial design takes after the Nokia N81. The most novel feature seems the 2.6-inch 16M color OLED display - it's the biggest OLED display to be integrated in a mobile phone yet. Swapping the TFT technology has its pros and cons and will cover tem duly in a short while.

A multimedia device to the bone, the Nokia N85 packs dedicated multimedia keys, accelerometer for automatic screen rotation, stereo Bluetooth, 3.5mm audio jack, TV-out, stereo FM radio with RDS and a FM transmitter. It will even ship with a 8GB microSD card to store your multimedia files. The multimedia keys also serve the double purpose of gaming keys in order to offer an excellent N-gage gaming experience.

A 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, dual-LED flash and autofocus assist light is mounted at the back of the device and that deserves attention too. It can manage the sweet VGA video recording at up to 30 fps.

Nokia N85 will be available in black and copper in October 2008 for an estimated retail price of Rs26,400 approx before taxes or subsides.