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04.07

HTC Touch 3G

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The HTC Touch 3G is a compact touchscreen smartphone equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera, MP3 player, FM radio, GPS, HSDPA, WiFi and Bluetooth. It's a very lightweight smartphone, but we feel that the display is too small and the battery life is poor.

The HTC Touch 3G is the most compact version of HTC's touchscreen smartphone range. It's very compact indeed and weighs just 96g, making it one of the lightest smartphones currently available. But it's small size means that it has a small display, and this is bound to be bad news for a touchscreen phone.

The Touch 3G isn't light on features. It includes most of the features of its big brother, the HTC Touch HD. The list includes the Windows Mobile operating system, GPS, MP3 player plus radio, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and plenty of memory. The compromises that have been made to fit everything into the small form factor are threefold: the display, the camera and the battery.

The display is disappointingly small. At just 2.8 inches across and with a lowly resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and 65k colours, it just isn't quite big enough for either the touchscreen UI or the web browser.

The camera is a let down too, being 3.2 megapixels and fixed focus. It's really just a toy camera.

The battery life isn't the worst we've seen - not by a long way! But it certainly isn't the best, and it isn't really enough to power the features of this phone. If you use the WiFi, the Bluetooth and the GPS, you'll drain the battery rather quickly.

Don't get us wrong - the Touch 3G isn't all bad. The TouchFLO 3D user interface is a great UI, but you'll need to be careful and patient to use it on this screen size. We also like the Windows Mobile OS. Web browsing is fast, using either the HSDPA 7.2 Mbps connection or the WiFi, but again, it's compromised by the screen size and resolution. It's the same story with the GPS and Google Maps.

The audio capabilities of the Touch 3G are good however. It's equipped with a music player capable of playing all the main digital formats - MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ and WMA - and is easy to synch with Windows Media Player on a PC. The phone comes with plenty of built-in memory and can take microSD cards too.

HTC have tried hard to produce a feature-packed yet compact device, and they have succeeded. But having used it, you understand why most smartphones are so much larger.

HTC Touch 3G Review

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In a nutshell: The HTC Touch 3G is a compact touchscreen smartphone equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera, MP3 player, FM radio, GPS, HSDPA, WiFi and Bluetooth. It's a very lightweight smartphone, but we feel that the display is too small and the battery life is poor.
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Review: April 2009.

The camera is a let down too, being 3.2 megapixels and fixed focus. It's really just a toy camera.

HTC have tried hard to produce a feature-packed yet compact device, and they have succeeded. But having used it, you understand why most smartphones are so much larger.

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