Sprint Offers 3G HTC Touch Pro with QWERTY Keyboard & Biz Card Scanner

The HTC Touch Pro is an upgrade to HTC Touch Diamond with business-focused enhancements that is now available from Sprint.

The HTC Touch Pro adds a five-row, slide-out QWERTY keyboard for easy data entry, expandable storage capabilities with a microSD card slot (1 GB card included) and a business card scanner application to automatically capture and convert business card information to the contact list using the built-in 3.2 MP camera/camcorder.

Sprint customers will have direct animated access to arrange their favorite contacts, photos, weather and music by using HTC's intuitive TouchFLO 3D interface. By combining a rich, dynamic presentation with integrated multi-media features, people have the ability to graphically personalize their device with 3D animated transitions.

The HTC Touch Pro for Sprint provides a mobile Internet experience that uses the Sprint EV-DO Rev. A technology access, , peak download data rates increase to 3.1 Mbps and peak upload data rates increase to 1.8 Mbps; average download speeds improve to 600 Kbps to 1.4 Mbps and average uplink speeds increase to 350 Kbps to 500 Kbps.

Other features include:

• Zoom and pan web sites and automatically view optimized content that has been specially created to fit the display.
  
• Turning the device sideways automatically rotates the Web page view from a portrait to landscape view.
• Direct access to exclusive Sprint content, including live and on-demand programming from Sprint TV® as well as over-the-air song downloads from the Sprint Music StoreSM and even a custom YouTube application for watching a variety of user-generated video content.
• 2.8 inch display provides near-print quality viewing that enables beautiful Web browsing and viewing of photographs.
  
• The built-in camera includes an optical auto-focus lens.