The HTC Touch Pro2 (also known as the AT&T Tilt 2, HTC Tytn III; codename: HTC Rhodium, HTC Barium, HTC Tungsten, HTC Fortress) is a slate

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, part of the Touch series of

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-enabled,

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smartphones designed and marketed by

HTC Corporation HTC Corporation ( zh, t=宏達國際電子股份有限公司, p=Hóngdá Guójì Diànzǐ Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī, first=t), or High Tech Computer Corporation (abbreviated and trading as HTC), is a Taiwanese consumer electronics corporatio ...

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. It is an enhanced version 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 ...

with a left-side slide-out

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keyboard, with tilting screen. The Touch Pro2 smartphone's functions include those of a

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and a

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in addition to

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and multimedia messaging. It also offers Internet services including

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, and local

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connectivity.

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is not a standard feature for the Touch Pro2, unlike its predecessor the Touch Pro. The Verizon Wireless version does include a visual voicemail application, however. All versions feature

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— a new enhanced version of the TouchFLO interface, unique only to the latest Touch series. The latest update renamed TouchFLO 3D to SenseUI, to match HTC's Android offering. The Touch Pro2 — along with its sister model, the Touch Diamond2 — were unveiled on February 16, 2009 in

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at the

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2009. Specific enhancements over the original Touch Pro include: * Larger 3.6-inch WVGA display (0.2" smaller than the Touch HD) * Improved battery life * Conference calls with up to five other people using HTC Straight Talk, a new speaker phone system that includes two speakers and two microphones (for increased volume and noise cancellation, respectively) * Tiltable screen The Touch Pro2 was released in May 2009. On August 6, 2009

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Mobility in Canada became the first North American carrier to launch the HTC Touch Pro2. The T-Mobile USA–branded Touch Pro2 was released on August 12, 2009. Sprint's version became available on September 8, 2009 and Verizon's version of the Touch Pro2 became available on September 11, 2009. The AT&T version branded Tilt 2 was released October 18, 2009 with Windows Mobile 6.5 As of November 2009, unofficial firmware for

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and

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versions have been released by third parties. The XDAndroid project makes it possible to run Android on HTC Windows Mobile phones, including the Touch Pro2. With a third party SIM card adaptor, the Pro2 is dual-SIM capable. HTC manufactures Windows Mobile and Android-based Communicators which have a proprietary connector called HTC ExtUSB (Ext ndedUSB) which is present on the Touch Pro2. ExtUSB combines mini-USB (with which it is backwards-compatible) with audio/video input and output in an 11-pin connector.

External links

HTC News and Updates

References

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