HTC Pure Review | Specs | Price

HTC Pure

Leveraging HTC’s TouchFLO 3D experience, the all touch screen HTC PURE offers an advanced touch experience that is optimized for one-hand use, which further evolves the compact smartphone design. Incorporating a large, brilliant 3.2-inch WVGA touch screen, the HTC PURE is crafted to fit perfectly into the hand and accentuates one’s sense of style. With a crisp advanced five megapixel auto-focus camera with video capture, expandable memory, gravity sensor and an ambient light sensor, the HTC PURE brings many of the most sophisticated features to a broad consumer audience looking for the professional benefits of a smartphone, without sacrificing size, looks or functionality.

HTC Pure

Verdict

Pros:	Windows Mobile 6.5 5 Megapixel Auto Focus Camera despite Flash Impressive
Cons:	5 Megapixel Camera Without a Flash
Outline	A Affordable Touchphone with good Multimedia Features .

HTC Pure Specs

2GNetwork---------->GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3GNetwork---------->HSDPA 850/ 900 / 2100

Available------------>Available. 2009 October

OS------------------->Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional

CPU----------------->Qualcomm MSM 7200A 528 MHz processor

Dimensions-------->0.4 x 2.1 x 0.6 inches

Weight-------------->113 g

Display-------------->TFT resistive touchscreen, 65K colors
Size----------------->480 x 800 pixels, 3.2 inches
Internal------------->288 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM

Cardslot------------->microSD (TransFlash)

WLAN--------------->Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g,

Java----------------->Yes MIDIP 2.0

Camera------------->5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus

Secondary---------->VGA videocall camera

Video--------------->Yes, VGA@15fps
Bluetooth----------->Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infraredport-------->No
AudioJack---------->3.5 mm audio jack
USB----------------->mini USB v2.0
Battery------------->Li-Ion 1100 mAh

Stand-by-----------> 5.6 hours (GSM)/5 hours (3G)

Talktime----------->up to 15 days (GSM)/20 days (3G)

Price --------------->149 USD approx(Contract With AT & T)

HTC Pure Review

The Pure offers a 3.2-inch WVGA restive touchscreen, only now it’s clad in a shiny dark-blue plastic body rather than the metal-edged casing of the Diamond2. What you lose in tactile feel, you gain in a display that feels less recessed than we found the original handset’s to be. Physical controls are limited to a touch-sensitive zoom slider sandwiched between the display and four hardware buttons – call, Windows, back and end – together with volume keys on the top right-hand side and a power/lock button up top. On the base there’s HTC’s usual ExtUSB port (which is compatible with miniUSB) and which – with a frustrating dongle – offers a 3.5mm headphone socket. Like the Diamond2, there’s no way to plug in a standard set of headphones.

Design
Much like T-Mobile did to the HTC Touch Pro2, AT&T made some modifications to the original design of the HTC Touch Diamond2 to come up with the HTC Pure, and we can't say we're thrilled with the end result. It's not that the Pure is an ugly phone; it's just that it's ordinary. The Touch Diamond2 offered a bit more flash and wow factor with its ultraslim profile and brushed-metal finish, while the Pure kind of blends into the crowd, feeling a bit plasticky and slick. That said, the design is simple and clean, and the smartphone fits nicely in the palm of you hand and has no problems slipping into a pants pocket.

The HTC Pure boasts a WVGA (400x800) resistive touch screen. Images and text pop with color and clarity, and though we would have preferred a capacitive screen since it doesn't require as much pressure or precision as resistive screens do, we found that the Pure's display worked just fine over our testing period. It also has a built-in accelerometer, which will automatically change the screen orientation from portrait to landscape when you rotate the phone. We found it to be quite responsive, but do note that this doesn't work in all apps, though it does for Web pages, e-mail, photos, and video.

On the left spine, there's a volume rocker, while the right side houses the speaker. The power button is located on top of the device, and there's a Mini-USB port/power connector/headset jack on the bottom. Yes, that's right; there's no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. Instead, AT&T packages the HTC Pure with a 3.5 audio adapter as well as an AC adapter, a USB cable, an extra stylus, a 3.5 millimeter audio adapter, a software CD, and reference material.

User interface

As part of the Touch series, the smartphone uses HTC's TouchFlo 3D interface. You can choose to stick with the company's tried-and-true UI or you can give the new Windows Mobile 6.5 Today screen a try. To hide TouchFlo, simply go to the Start menu, Settings, and tap on Today. From there, go to the Items tab, deselect TouchFlo, and check Windows Default. Here you'll also be able to select other apps you want add to the Home screen, while switching to the Appearance tab will let you customize your device with different background images or one of six themes.

One other notable feature of Windows Mobile 6.5 is the new Lock screen. It shows upcoming appointments, missed calls, messages, and date and time right on the screen even if you've got your phone locked. If you've got multiple notifications (the number of notifications will appear next to the lock icon), you can touch the lock icon, which then presents a drop-down menu of sorts displaying how many of each--messages or missed calls--you have. Upcoming appointments are shown on the bottom third of the screen, along with the date and time. What's even better is that you can tap on each notification to go directly to the specific app (messages, phone, calendar) after unlocking the phone or entering your password or PIN (if you've set one up), rather than unlocking it, checking your notifications, and then launching the appropriate programs, so it cuts out a couple of steps.

Overall, the UI is certainly cleaner and looks sleeker than on the previous model. Windows Mobile 6.5 also adds more gesture support, such as being able to flick your finger on the screen to scroll through long lists, which is welcome, not to mention long overdue. How about multitouch next? The Lock screen is definitely useful, as well. However, is this all revolutionary? No. Microsoft still needs to play a massive game of catch up. Still, though, the interface enhancements, as small as they are, do make Windows Mobile a friendlier operating system for consumers and provide a better user experience, making the phone easier to navigate and understand.

One other notable feature of Windows Mobile 6.5 is the new Lock screen. It shows upcoming appointments, missed calls, messages, and date and time right on the screen even if you've got your phone locked. If you've got multiple notifications (the number of notifications will appear next to the lock icon), you can touch the lock icon, which then presents a drop-down menu of sorts displaying how many of each--messages or missed calls--you have. Upcoming appointments are shown on the bottom third of the screen, along with the date and time. What's even better is that you can tap on each notification to go directly to the specific app (messages, phone, calendar) after unlocking the phone or entering your password or PIN (if you've set one up), rather than unlocking it, checking your notifications, and then launching the appropriate programs, so it cuts out a couple of steps.

Overall, the UI is certainly cleaner and looks sleeker than on the previous model. Windows Mobile 6.5 also adds more gesture support, such as being able to flick your finger on the screen to scroll through long lists, which is welcome, not to mention long overdue. How about multitouch next? The Lock screen is definitely useful, as well. However, is this all revolutionary? No. Microsoft still needs to play a massive game of catch up. Still, though, the interface enhancements, as small as they are, do make Windows Mobile a friendlier operating system for consumers and provide a better user experience, making the phone easier to navigate and understand.

Windows Mobile 6.5

In terms of features, Windows Mobile 6.5 brings three major additions: Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Microsoft's MyPhone backup service, and an improved Internet Explorer Mobile Web browser. Download.com has a more in-depth review of Windows Mobile 6.5, but we'll touch on them briefly here.

Joining its competitors (Apple, Palm, Google, and Symbian), Microsoft has created its own app store called Windows Marketplace for Mobile. It will ship on all devices running Windows Mobile 6.5 and will be made available to Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.0 users, allowing you to search and download apps over the air right to your smartphone. Alternatively, you can buy apps online and then transfer them to your smartphone. The catalog offers free and paid apps in a range of categories, from business to lifestyle to entertainment to reference. The layout of the store is pretty plain, but it's easy to understand. From the main screen, there's a break out of apps by Showcase (featured programs for the day), Most popular, What's new, and Categories. Alternatively, you can find an app by entering a title in the search field at the top of the screen. The My Applications section allows you to manage the apps you have downloaded, check for updates, write reviews, or remove them.

Features
The productivity side of Windows Mobile doesn't change too much with the arrival of 6.5. The HTC Pure comes preloaded with the Microsoft Office Mobile Suite for editing native Word and Excel documents and viewing PowerPoint presentations. In addition, it offers Microsoft's Direct Push Technology for real-time e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization with your Outlook calendar, tasks, and contacts via Exchange Server and support for POP3 and IMAP accounts.

Performance

The Pure is equipped with a 528MHz MSM7201A processor and we didn't run into major delays or problems during our testing period. The smartphone was quite responsive and chugged along smoothly with some just some occasional moments of sluggishness, mostly with the browser. Using AT&T's 3G network, it took CNET's site 35 seconds to fully load, while CNN's and ESPN's sites came up in 9 seconds and 10 seconds, respectively. The revamped Internet Explorer Mobile is, indeed, a real improvement over previous versions. The new toolbar along the bottom provides easier access to tools. Navigation is much better, with the choice of views, pan support, and sliding zoom bar, though we still hand it to the iPhone and Palm Pre for ease of use. We also like Opera's browser for tabbed viewing. That said, it's nice to have the Flash Lite support, and we were able to play YouTube videos right from the browser.

The videos took a while to buffer, as did clips from AT&T Video. Picture quality was murky and the video would often have to rebuffer. Despite the annoyance of having to use the clunky audio adapter, we plugged in our Bose On-Ear headphones and enjoyed smooth music playback.

HTC Pure Video Review

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