HTC Touch Cruise – Windows Phone, 3.5G HSDPA, EDGE, GPS, Wi-Fi

The HTC Touch Cruise, also known as the HTC P3650 or its codename the HTC Polaris 100, is a Windows Mobile 6-powered Pocket PC. It is designed and manufactured by HTC and was first released in January 2008. In January 2009, HTC announced a completely redesigned device, also called the HTC Touch Cruise.

The HTC Touch Cruise is sleek, stylish, and compact, but big on features and with a LCD screen size that gives 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, user can quickly browse through e-mails, web pages, messages, music, and images, making navigation a breeze.

Live 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 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 the user to quickly call contacts, open applications, listen to music, and browse media files.

Full multimedia experience with the large 2.8″ Touch screen.
Revolutionary TouchFLO touch-screen technology that allows finger-touch scrolling, panning, and photo zooming
Innovative 3D Touch Cube interface for quick and easy navigation
Worldwide connectivity (3.5G HSDPAand GPRS/EDGE/GSM)
Windows Mobile 6 Professional with Direct Push Outlook e-mail
Live HTC Home featuring time and weather display, quick launcher, and one-touch ring tone settings
3 megapixel camera with auto-focus for shooting photos/videos and a second camera for video calls or self-portraits
Built-in GPS navigation offers you a full navigation experience
Entertainment features including an FM radio, MP3 player, and video playback

Specification

Processor: Qualcomm MSM7200, 400 MHz
Operating System: Windows Mobile 6 Professional
Memory

• ROM: 256 MB
• RAM: 128 MB DDR SDRAM

Dimensions: 110*58*15.5 MM
Weight: 130 Grams with battery
Display: 2.8″ TFT-LCD with backlight LEDs, Touch-sensitive screen
Network

• HSDPA/UMTS: 2100 MHz (Europe), 850/1900 MHz (USA)
• HSDPA: upto 384 kbps for upload and 3.6 Mbps for download
• UMTS: upto 384 kbps for upload and download
• GSM/GPRS/EDGE: Quad-band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

Device Control

• HTC TouchFLO
• 4-Way Navigation Wheel with Enter button

Connectivity

• Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and AVRCP
• Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 b/g
• HTC ExtUSB (11-pin mini-USB and audio jack in one), full-speed USB 2.0

FM Radio
GPS Navigation
Camera

• Main camera: 3 megapixel color CMOS camera with auto focus
• Second camera: VGA CMOS color camera

Audio: Built-in microphone and speaker
Ring tone supported formats

• MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV, and AMR-NB
• 40 polyphonic and standard MIDI format 0 and 1(SMF)/SP MIDI

Battery

• 1350 mAh rechargeable Lithium-ion battery
• Standby time: upto 450 hours for UMTS, Up to 400 hours for GSM
• Talk time: upto 4 hours for GSM

Expansion Slot: microSD memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
AC Adapter: Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60 Hz
DC output: 5V and 1A [source]