HTC Touch Cruise (09)

HTC is coming out with a new phone and it’s called the HTC Touch Cruise. At this point you’re probably thinking to yourself, “isn’t there a Touch Cruise already”. The answer is yes. Why did HTC do this, I have no idea! For the sake of this post and the site I’m going to call the phone the HTC Touch Cruise (09). Once you quickly get past the name you’re going to love this phone. In true HTC style the phone has a sleek look and feel.  The Touch Cruise (09) is a quad-band GSM phone with a 3.2 megapixel camera for taking photos and recording video. The phone runs on the Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS. The phone’s interface is the popular TouchFLO 3D which we’ve come to expect on HTC cell phones.

A new feature has been added to the Touch Cruise (09) which is very apparent on the front of the phone. You’ll notice a footprint button on the bottom right side of the phone. HTC is calling this new feature Footprints. Footprints automatically stores the location of where you take photos. It also allows you to write comments about the photo. The idea is that you can keep a running journal of your travels or easily pull up places you want to revisit.

“The new HTC Touch Cruise is the first mobile phone to offer HTC Footprints, an application experience that enables people to permanently chronicle their special moments by capturing a digital postcard on their phone. Once captured, Footprints provides the ability to take notes and an audio clip of that favourite restaurant or special place while identifying its specific geographical location. In addition to identifying each postcard with its specific GPS co-ordinates, Footprints also auto-names each postcard with its general location or area.”

The phone is set to release across select markets in the Spring. Currently there is no pricing. You can find more photos and features at HTC Touch Cruise (09).