The HTC Touch HD, also known as the HTC T828X or its codename the HTC Blackstone, is a Windows Mobile 6.1 Pocket PC designed and manufactured by HTC launched in 2008. Part of the HTC Touch Family, it features a larger, higher-resolution display than those found in most smart-phones available at the time, a 5-megapixel camera, a second front-facing camera to enable Videophone functionality, an accelerometer, GPS, FM RDS radio reception, high resolution video recording capability and SD Micro card compatibility (up to 64 GB). It also features

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and

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connectivity, as well as the proprietary TouchFLO 3D

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developed by HTC. However, it lacks the left side slide-out keyboard of the

HTC Touch Pro The HTC Touch Pro (also known as the HTC Raphael, AT&T Fuze, XDA Serra, or MDA Vario IV) is a smartphone from the ''Touch'' series of Windows Mobile Pocket PCs designed and marketed by HTC Corporation of Taiwan. Released in 2008, it is an enhanced ...

. Details of the device were leaked several days before an official press release and a new product page confirmed the specifications and the release date in Europe (Q4 2008). HTC announced that the Touch HD would be available in the UK from November 7, 2008. While the FCC has approved the HTC Touch HD for the US, HTC has confirmed that the device will not officially be available in the US. The Touch HD generally received mixed reviews from critics, praising its screen, colors, most of the hardware and applications, but its lighting of the screen was criticized.

Specifications

The following specifications are those found on the HTC website. *Screen size: *Screen resolution: 480 × 800 (65k colour) *Input devices: Resistive touchscreen, front panel buttons, Built in Active Stylus *Battery: 1350 mAh *Talk time: up to 480 minutes (GSM) up to 420 minutes (

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) *Standby time: up to 440 hours (GSM) up to 680 hours (WCDMA) *Video call time: up to 140 minutes *5.1-megapixel rear-facing camera with autofocus,

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color front-facing camera for video calls *GPS and A-GPS *

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MSM 7201A 528 MHz ARM processor *RAM: 288 MB *ROM: 512 MB *With HTC sense and TouchFlo 3D *Browser: Opera Mobile *3G: Up to 7.2 Mbit/s download speed, up to 2 Mbit/s upload speed *

microSD Secure Digital (SD) is a proprietary hardware, proprietary, non-volatile memory, non-volatile, flash memory card format developed by the SD Association (SDA). Owing to their compact size, SD cards have been widely adopted in a variety of port ...

slot (

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compatible) *Operating system: Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional *

Quad band In telecommunications, a multi-band device (including (2) dual-band, (3) tri-band, (4) quad-band and (5) penta-band devices) is a communication device (especially a mobile phone) that supports multiple radio frequency bands. All devices which ha ...

GPRS General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), also called 2.5G, is a mobile data standard on the 2G cellular communication network's Global System for Mobile Communications, global system for mobile communications (GSM). Networks and mobile devices wit ...

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( GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900) *

Wi-Fi Wi-Fi () is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for Wireless LAN, local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by ...

( 802.11b/g) * Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR &

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*Mini USB (HTC ExtUSB) *3.5 mm audio jack, microphone, speaker *FM radio *G-Sensor *Ambient light sensor *Size: ''(h)'' ''(w)'' ''(d)'' *Weight: with battery

References

External links

HTC Product Page

US FCC Documentation
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