iPhone No, I HTC Touch Pro!

Jasmine Powers · October 20, 2009 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/b54

Review Verizons Windows-based HTC Touch Pro2 Smartphone

About 25% of my day goes to telephone calls and yes, the other 75% is spent e-mailing, managing my social networking campaigns (as in plural). I'm a loyal fan, uh hem, customer of Verizon, but my recently purchased LG enV Touch only provided the now standard cell phone features. It went a bit further with allowing me to store and view Adobe and MS Office documents. Yay? Nay.

 

Most executives need a little more than that, so I opted for the HP 1151NR netbook, which works like a charm and is about the same size as one.  Guess what, I still wasn't happy as I felt uncomfortable on crowded Los Angeles public transportation lugging a laptop, though small, in my oversized misshapen Versace knock-off bag. That was for the birds.

 

In doing a little client research, I thought a Blackberry would suit my needs. Nay. They didn't. I wanted super incredible, mobile, light-weight, small, extremely functional phone/PDA/whatchamacallit and I was just short of praying for one when I found the HTC Touch Pro2. 

 

The deal makers (which slightly makes me consider it for a marriage mate) is its size, about the same as my enV Touch, it's touch screen, full QWERTY keypad (soft keys so I won't get caught typing in quiet meetings), Windows Mobile 6.1, the ability to CREATE and edit MS Office documents, Mobile Broadband, Global VZ Navigator capability, Windows Media Player, Global SIM card pre-installed, and of course many envied applications that silence the taunting iPhone commercials. So far I'm stuck at the bubble popping game, but then again I'm slightly obsessive compulsive. What's new?

 

Hey, not only does Verizon have a map for that, Verizon has the best network, the best customer service and, as a result, the best phones. If my little entrepreneurial rating would count in the grand scheme of PDA recommendations, then I pronounce the HTC Touch Pro2 THEE PDA for a person seeking touch screen functionality with many of the basic pluses of a business computer.

 

Be sure to send me your addresses so that I can invite you to my PDA's and my wedding.

 

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Verizon Communications Inc., headquartered in New York, is a leader in delivering broadband and other wireline and wireless communication innovations to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, serving more than 67 million customers nationwide. Verizon's Wireline operations include Verizon Business, which delivers innovative and seamless business solutions to customers around the world, and Verizon Telecom, which brings customers the benefits of converged communications, information and entertainment services over the nation's most advanced fiber-optic network. A Dow 30 company, Verizon employed a diverse workforce of approximately 232,000 as of the end of the first quarter 2008 and last year generated consolidated operating revenues of $93.5 billion.

Verizon Communications Inc., based in New York City and incorporated in Delaware, was formed on June 30, 2000, with the merger of Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp. Verizon began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the VZ symbol on Monday, July 3, 2000.

The symbol was selected because it uses the two letters of the Verizon logo that graphically portray speed, while also echoing the genesis of the company name: veritas, the Latin word connoting certainty and reliability, and horizon, signifying forward-looking and visionary.