HTC officially has the Touch Cruise on Monday introduced. The smartphone with a touch-sensitive screen is the first member of the Touch family to have a GPS receiver.
The Touch Cruise features HTC’s TouchFlo technology that allows the user to scroll and browse web pages, documents, images and messages with finger gestures. With the built-in GPS receiver and the included TomTom software, the phone can also serve as a navigation system.
Like all HTC Touch models, the Touch Cruise runs Windows Mobile 6.0. The device measures 110 by 58 by 15.5 millimeters, weighs 130 grams and has a 2.8” LCD screen. There is a 400MHz CPU, 256MB ROM and 128MB RAM. For extra storage capacity, the phone can be equipped with a microSD memory card.
The smartphone can handle a wide range of wireless networks. The Touch Cruise is a quadband GSM, GPRS and Edge phone, as well as a triband UMTS and HSPDA device. In addition, the device speaks Bluetooth 2.0 and WiFi 802.11b/g.
The device will appear on the shelves in Europe this month. How much the Touch Cruise will cost has not yet been announced.