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hi everyone hands up front pocket now and this is the HTC touch the phone which was launched in June 2007 so it's almost five years old now it's running Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional and it's what we call the foundation for HTC Sense because HTC featured HTC touch below a key in the Cuba so stay with us we're about to get a little bit nostalgic it is always interesting to talk about best devices especially if they're preparing for their fifth birthday you will find no gigabyte of RAM no quad core processor and you will definitely not find a 720p screen on it like you have on the HTC One X which is almost twice as tall but almost twice as then the screens what you see here on the One X is probably the best screen on the market at the moment compared to what HTC could do back in 2007 you all know the specs of the One X so let's take a look at the touch at the top you have your speaker grille and just underneath it there's an LED light for notifications something missing from most of today's devices luckily HTC is bringing it back on the One X and it's also there on the galaxy s3 just below the screen you have your call start and call and hardware buttons in the middle you'll find your d-pad but it's for directional buttons and the enter dead center on the Left there's your volume rocker and nothing else while the right side has a dedicated camera button this shiny chrome strip here can be lifted to reveal the SIM and the microSD card the top only has a power button and your stylus while the bottom holds your USB port microphone and yes a reset hole on the back there is your camera with a self-portrait mirror and your speaker the battery inside the HTC touch is one of eleven hundred million powers but it offered excellent battery life HTC back then back to a Texas Instruments processor in the touch an ohm app 850 clocking at 200 megahertz yes 200 there is 64 Meg's of RAM and 128 Meg's of ROM but there were also versions with 128 Meg's of RAM and 256 Meg's of ROM take that those who find 8 or even 16 gig versions to be lacking storage space however it also packed a microSD expansion slot you know because Windows Mobile actually supported it and the HTC threw in a 1 gigabyte card inside the box the screen is 2.8 inches large or with today's measures 2.8 inches small and has a qvg resolution of 240 by 320 pixels we have to tell you that the screen on this device is terrible that's what technology does to us with all the Super AMOLED plus s LCD ClearBlack AMOLED monikers and technologies the viewing angle on this little phone is horrified even while staring at at that center you will see different shades at the top and at the bottom the camera has 2 megapixels with no flash and back in the day HTC was struggling with camera quality this thing takes horrible pictures but back in the day we were in so connected digital social network wise and probably with didn't mind carrying an actual camera when needed that aside there was also Wi-Fi BG 2 2.0 and I almost said GPS there was no GPS on the HTC touch but there was Windows Mobile 6 point out professional and the stylist before Apple and the followers killed it and way before Samsung can its own followers are trying to bring it back it takes anywhere between 50 seconds and 1 minute for this phone to boot to a rather usable state which is the windows mobile home screen called today screen with HTC's home item at the top showing you the clock counters and shortcuts for messages email and call history as well as 3 one for home one for the weather and one for the launcher with its 10 configurable shortcuts back in the day we had a start button just like pcs had and they still do settings were divided in three tabs one where you set your personal settings one for system and one for connectivity settings the programs menu was just the list of icons sorted alphabetically but there was Windows Media Player and the File Explorer it's safe to assume looking back in time that HTC sends all started with this phone they tried to make Windows Mobile more friendly and usable with the finger so HTC came up with pledge flow aka the cube which was finger swipe navigation this later turned to touchflo 3d and then to cents while still on the windows mobile powered HTC Touch HD you bring the cube up by swiping from the bottom of the screen it brings you three sections this one is for shortcuts to email SMS Internet tasks and your communications manager as well as your calendar it was the easy way to launch applications without seeking out the stylus or trying to use your fingernails to hit the small text inside the Start menu the second spring to the left is a list of your favorite contacts as well as some shortcuts while the third one is where all your multimedia shortcuts are for music photos and videos and that's pretty much it swiping from the top makes that flow go away other things to note while talking about the software there was Office Mobile and it was quite usable while not specifically on this small QVGA screen but the apps alone were good and did the job Internet Explorer also did a great job rendering mobile versions of pages because back in 2007 we couldn't be that crazy to dream a full site full resolution flash enabled navigation the phone dialer was also skinned to match HTC's black grey design from the Today screen and there was a quick call functionality with the help of smart dialing did we like the HTC touch we loved it can you believe it now looking at what the companies are putting on the market it depends on probably your age and when you jumped on the smartphones ring the HTC touch was later followed by the touch 3G and then everything changed with the touch diamond the first with VGA resolution screen as smartphones evolved so this was it this was the HTC touch a phone which was launched in 2007 the five year old phone running Windows Mobile 6.0 professional specs as you've seen them of course you can all get back to your Samsung Galaxy S breeze to your HTC One X's iPhones Lumias will just stay on this nostalgic note a little bit if you like this video please give us a thumbs up this wasn't in the united front pocket now thank you very much for watching