HTC Launches HTC Touch Pro and HTC Touch Viva Touch Screen Phones in India

Two mobile phones: HTC Touch Pro (T7276) and HTC Touch Viva (T2223)- from Taiwan based mobile phone maker HTC Corp have been released in Indian market on Tuesday. HTC launched the handsets in association with Idea Cellular, a telecom service provider in India. Both the phone feature touch screen with HTC Touch Pro being priced at Rs 34,900 and HTC Touch Viva at 16,490. Both HTC and Idea Cellular are happy to have been collaborated with each other.

Business Standard reported:

“HTC Touch Pro and Touch Viva perfectly embody our commitment to build a family of touch phones that are powerful, stylish and offer something for everyone,” said Jack Tong, vice president, HTC Asia.

“Innovation and customer delight have been at the forefront of Idea Cellular’s service delivery to its customers, and this alliance with HTC, is a reaffirmation of this commitment to our customers.”

HTC Touch Pro and HTC Touch Viva touch screen mobile phones are expected to attack the mobile phone users in India as the handsets are stylish and powerful. Now, let us see if these two phones can bring out success for HTC in Indian market.

HTC Touch vs Apple iPhone

High Tech Computer Corp (HTC) is a Taiwanese company. It is not exactly a high profile name in the cell phone industry but it surely can produce nice mobile phones. It also can produce portable devices. It works with big companies like Dell and Microsoft. Now HTC officials are becoming serious about fighting with Apple iPhone. They feel that they have already something to compete against iPhone. They call it HTC Touch.

Reuters reported:

Taiwan smartphone maker High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) (2498.TW: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it will launch one of its own-brand touch-screen phones in the United States by the end of the year, as it seeks to compete with Apple's (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) iPhone.

The company's second-half U.S. launch for its newly released HTC Touch phone follows a recent release for the model in Britain, said Chief Executive Officer Peter Chou.

The model, a so-called smartphone with cellphone and personal digital assistant (PDA) capabilities, will use touch-screen technology similar to that of the iPhone, set for release in the United States later this month.

I did some research about HTC Touch and found that Wikipedia actually has an entry about HTC Touch but the page contains nothing more than 2-3 sentences. Therefore, I went to the official website of HTC Touch. The website has some good information about HTC Touch. You can visit the product page and read the specifications.

I don’t think that HTC Touch will give Apple iPhone a run for its money simply because hardly anyone knows about HTC Touch. On the other hand, Apple iPhone is now the most widely talked about gadget in Internet.