HTC Touch2/HTC MEGA Smartphone

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HTC Corporation announced today the introduction of their new HTC Touch2 (also known as the HTC Mega) smartphone. This is one of the first mobile phones to include Microsoft’s new Windows Phone software utilizing Windows Mobile 6.5 and new Windows Phone services like My Phone and Windows Marketplace. The HTC Touch2 (the smartphone formerly known as the HTC Mega) expands HTC’s portfolio of touch-based phones and signals the company’s move to bring the full-touch smartphone to a much broader ranger of customers.

The HTC Touch2 includes a variety of HTC enhancements including TouchFLO, an enhanced user interface that includes integrated weather updates and quick touch access to a variety of some of the most popular applications. In addition, the Touch2 includes Google Maps for Mobile, YouTube and more. As a new Windows phone, the HTC Touch2 showcases the powerful messaging, browsing and productivity capabilities delivered by the new Windows Mobile 6.5. It also offers the ability to synchronize with Microsoft Exchange, giving users the ability to check and manage multiple email accounts while on the go.

This handy little phone also includes the updated Internet Explorer Mobile. So what does that mean? That means that you will actually get to experience web pages as they were meant to be seen and not some dumbed-down version of the real thing. The HTC Touch2 includes a zoom bar for reflowing text to an optimum size along with both pan and zoom to make for a more enjoyable browsing experience. Internet Explorer-Mobile also supports Adobe Flash, enabling Flash video content, like YouTube, to be viewed easily.

The HTC Touch2 is expected to be available on October 6 with broader availability in a variety of European and Asian markets in early Q4 2009.