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HTC Touch Dual

HTC Touch Dual Reviews

PC Pro reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes, "The original Touch launched as an iPhone competitor, but although the touch interface was great for viewing photos and playing music it was a chore to send texts or even to make phone calls. That's what the sliding keyboard of its follow-up - the Touch Dual - aims to address."

Pocket-lint reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes, "The device also sports a second camera on the front top right of the case, allowing for video calls. Like the original, the back of the device has a 2 megapixel camera for normal shots and videos. In use, we found the picture quality to be surprisingly good for a 2 megapixel device."

CNET Australia reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes, "On the back of the handset you'll find the lens of the onboard 2-megapixel CMOS camera that features auto-focus but no flash. The photos we took looked pretty good, bright and colourful, but predictably soft-focused. However, if you reading this review we're guessing an amazing camera is probably not as high on your list of priorities as the Dual's business sensibilities."

Digital Trends reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes, "The 2.0 Megapixel camera lacks a flash, a surprisingly omission for a phone of this caliber, but otherwise the HTC Dual Touch does the job. Press the camera button on the side – or go through the menus – and the screen turns into a viewfinder. (It should be held horizontally, like a traditional camera.) You can attach the photo, save it in memory and so on. One odd function is what may be described as a rapid-fire option: the camera will take five photos in rapid succession, allowing you to save the best ones. It’s a nice touch."

Australian PC Authority reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes, "There’s no denying that the underlying awkwardness of Windows Mobile stops it from being a credible competitor to the (unavailable in Australia) iPhone, but the HTC Touch Dual is worthy of consideration in its own right. For business people in need of push email and Exchange integration, it offers a very sleek and sexy way of doing it."

PC World reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes, "Beyond the design changes, the Touch Dual provides a very similar experience to that of the Touch. Inside lies Qualcomm's MSM7200 400-MHz processor, 256MB of ROM, and 128MB of SDRAM. It has the same 2-megapixel camera as the Touch does, with the same shutter-speed delay between shots...Fans of the BlackBerry Pearl's tiny keypad might consider this alternative, but I'm desperate for a good set of keys to type up thoughts on the go. If you're a keyboard junkie like me, I recommend waiting for the recently announced HTC Touch Pro. That handset seems like a logical evolution of the T-Mobile Wing design, but it won't be available until sometime "before the end of 2008" (according to HTC)."

MobileTechReview has a review of the HTC Touch Dual and writes, "The camera is a 2 megapixel model with an autofocus lens. Focus speeds are decent by camera phone standards and images are slightly above average. The autofocus significantly improves portraits and close object shots but does little for landscapes and there's noticeable over-sharpening at fine and superfine quality settings that makes tree leaves and water ripples distracting. There are plenty of settings to tweak images including white balance, brightness, contrast, sharpness and these do help. There's a self-timer and pre-sets for action shots, multi-frame shots and more. The Touch Dual can save directly to a microSD card or internal memory and it can send these files via Bluetooth."