HTC has delivered arguably a very fine product when they launched Touch Pro. It is very well built and an awesome smartphone available on the market. When the successor came up on last Summer, you may asked: Do I need an upgrade? Does it worth the price or should I switch to Iphone 3GS instead? Well, here’s our view.

Just like Touch Pro, the Touch Pro2 has a slide keyboard which we enjoyed very much. It’s tilting screen is somewhat an added value which we found not as attractive as its soft keypad. With the keypad, you can bet that you will put away your stylus for good.

Touch Pro2 has bigger body with a very responsive 3.6 inch LCD with 480 x 800 resolution, much bigger than Touch Pro’s 2.8 inch screen. The TouchFLO technology proved to be one of the most sensitive-touch, probably too responsive for some people.

Added to the home screen are new stock page, new calendar and updated weather. We are not as obsessed with stock prices, but this might be a good feature again someday. The handy calendar is still on the Windows Mobile platform. The weather feature is something that will satisfied you all the time.  In all, a more intuitive and slick interface is a welcome change and another feature that has proved HTC’s value.

Built with many features, but it is still a phone which call quality is vitally important. On the original Touch Pro, we had no complaints about the sound quality. If you have been happy  with the original Touch Pro like us, then you will find Touch Pro2 impressive. It has crystal-clear sound quality and voice reception at the core of its design. In fact, it is a palm-size professional conference phone with a loudspeaker and dedicated noise-cancelling microphone that delivers superior quality conference calls.

Another reason to switch to this phone is the advanced conference calling capabilities that are now really made easy by built it into TouchFLO. Selecting several contacts instantly conferences all the parties together with options to individually drop certain parties from the call while it’s in progress. The call instantly changes over to speakerphone when you flip it upside down—and the call quality on speaker is beyond impressive. This makes for an absolutely wonderful conference calling experience —it’s the best we’ve ever used on a mobile phone.

One aspect we can only call a major disappointment is the camera. Not only was there no upgrade—it’s still a 3.2 MP camera—but now there’s no flash. HTC’s Touch Diamond 2 got a camera upgrade, so why not the Touch Pro 2 and how does removing the flash module make any sense?

Considering both aspects on hardware and software, we found that Touch Pro2 was convincingly surpassed its predecessor. We even found this sweet gadget to be a very good contender to the Iphone. If  HTC spent the same amount on marketing as Apple, RIM, or even Samsung, we even think that they would have a lot more followers.

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