NEW HTC Touch Cruise with HTC Footprints

HTC announced smartphone, the Touch Cruise, which comes complete with an automatic location-based logger called HTC Footprints. The Touch Cruise has a 2.8-inch QVGA resistive touchscreen, quadband GSM, dualband HSDPA (900/2100 MHz for Europe/Asia, 850/1900MHz for North America), WiFi b/g and A-GPS, together with Bluetooth 2.0 and a 3.2-megapixel fixed-focus camera. HTC Footprints, meanwhile, is launched from a dedicated button on the front panel, and allows every photo taken with the Touch Cruise’s camera to be tagged with audio and text notes, together with GPS coordinates.

Footprints is being marketed as a way to better record family memories, or make sure you can find places you previously visited. The Touch Cruise also has HTC TouchFLO 3D on top of Windows Mobile 6.1, and includes a microSD slot.

The Touch Cruise measures 102 x 53.5 x 14.5mm and weighs 103g, and the 1100mAh battery is rated for up to 400 minutes talktime or two weeks standby.




The HTC Touch Cruise with HTC Footprints will go on sale in all major global markets in Spring 2009. In the US it will be offered at between $500 and $600 unlocked.

HTC Touch Cruise Specifications

• Key HTC Touch Cruise Specifications
• Size: 102 x 53.5 x 14.5mm
• Weight: 103 grams
• Connectivity: WCDMA/HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
• Operating system: Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
• Display: 2.8-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with QVGA resolution
• Control panel: HTC TouchFLO™, 4-Way navigation wheel with Enter and HTC Footprints™ buttons
• Camera: 3.2 MP, with fixed focus
• Internal memory: 512 MB flash ROM, 256 MB RAM
• Expansion Slot: microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
• Bluetooth: 2.0 with EDR
• Wireless: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
• GPS: GPS/A-GPS
• Interface: HTC ExtUSBä (mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one)
• Battery: 1100 mAh
• Talk time: GSM: up to 400 minutes
• Standby time: GSM: up to two weeks
• Chipset: Qualcomm® MSM7225™, 528 MHz