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what were you doing back on June 1st 2009 it's hard for us to forget since we were reviewing one of the best-selling smartphones of all time the HTC Touch pro2 aka till 2 even if it's only been four years since it's launched these were very different times back then slide-out QWERTY keyboards a stylus on resistive touchscreens and Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system more important codename the HTC rhodium the touch pro2 was ahead of its time it may seem small free today the fact that it was one of the biggest phones of its time it was beautifully crafted with a metallic chrome ring on the borders and was packed to the gills and features it's gorgeous three point six inch WVGA display put the hvga panel on the iPhone 3G of the time to shame and it's 528 megahertz processor along with 256 megabytes of RAM and 512 megabytes of expandable storage we're great specifications for the time as well now the real story about the hardware was HTC's purpose for this phone it was meant to be a business and multimedia powerhouse and indeed it was it was one of the first phones with dual microphones and had an amazing stereo speaker system at the back this allows you to have a better experience watching video and with conference calls which is the reason why they even included a mute button at the back this was also hands down the best slide-out keyboard ever made it was one of the first offset keyboards in the market in the second HTC phone to include a tilting screen so the experience writing long emails was unmatched one of the things I missed the most about this phone was the software its last update was the HTC Sense 2.5 running on top windows mobile 6.5 HTC sensor touchflo 3d as it was known was the most elegant and complete UI of the time back then when you needed third-party applications for basic things like Twitter YouTube the weather or stock information HTC Sense had it all out of the box if Samsung's motion gestures amaze you on Galaxy phones today HTC Sense was first and allowing you to respond to phone by just flipping the phone on its back and using the speaker aside from other automated services this was also a truly open operating system where you can access the file system and even the devices registry and tweak whatever you wanted with it heck I even ran Android on a microSD card at some point so there was really no limit to what you could do with this phone using this phone was great because back then one hand the usability was actually a feature in the hardware buttons were designed to let you navigate everything with ease once you add that experience to others like the keyboard productivity focus of the software with office mobile integration plus some amazing call quality and battery life and this phone made a lot of happy users back then sadly one of the main reasons why this platform died was its move to persistent storage back with Windows Mobile five the more updates the phone received and the more clunker it became an its resistive touchscreen was also not a sensitive as the capacitive displays of its time and the fact that Microsoft was reluctant to adopt WebKit on Park and Internet Explorer just made the phone perform like an old lady when compared to the iPhone or even some of the Android phones back then and now I'm not going to waste your time talking about photo or video quality because back then these things weren't really important in the three point two megapixel camera on this phone without a flash then do a really good job bottom line even with Windows Mobile holding this phone back from the experience we deserved we miss these times back then less wasn't more HTC did an amazing job in giving you the best experience for your money the touch pro2 went on to be one of the best selling windows mobile phones of all time available in all carriers and different variants and yes the deserved praise it was a beautiful phone and we all can't wait to see HTC gain the sort of popularity that it had with this phone once again that's it for our throwback of the HTC Touch pro2 thank you very much for watching did you own this phone that you liked it back in the day because I really enjoyed my time with it leave us our comments down below and make sure you also follow us on social media script our youtube channel as well you follow me on Twitter Jaime underscore Iveta please give this video thumbs up if you liked what you saw I am hi memory that I thank you very much for watching we will see you on the next video