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NAM HTC Touch Cruise with Footprints passes the FCC
Author: +866.com15 Feb
A North American version of the brand new HTC Touch Cruise (also known as HTC Touch Cruise with Footprints or HTC Touch Cruise 09) was recently approved by the FCC, meaning that we might see it soon on sale in the US.
The NAM Touch Cruise comes with quad-band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) and dual-band HSDPA connectivity (850 / 1900 MHz). This makes it suitable for a release via AT&T – but, of course, it doesn’t mean the carrier will actually want to bring the handset into its family of products.
According to its user manual, the Touch Cruise is sold together with a 1GB microSD card that includes “map content for bundled GPS software”, which is, obviously, a good thing.
As for the rest of Cruise’s specs and features, you can view them here.
The smartphone’s European version (with 900 / 2100 HSDPA) will be available for purchase starting this spring, at a price that was not announced yet.
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New HTC Touch Cruise
Author: +866.com22 Jan
HTC’s new version of the Touch Cruise is looking pretty. You might have previously seen pictures of it under its codename – Iolite. The phone can double up as an in-car navigation system, which is rather obvious seeing that there is a cradle included. The phone has features such as GPS, A-GPS, quad-band GSM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, microSD slot and 3.2 megapixel camera, though the coolest feature is probably the new HTC Footprints software which uses geotagging, allowing you to take notes, audio clips and the GPS location data and embed them into a “postcard” of sorts. The phone will be going for $500 to $600 for an unlocked version, which should be available in Q2 2009.