HTC Touch Viva - Low Price Smart Phone Review

HTC Touch Viva is a candy bar form factor mobile phone, which supports GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 on 2G network. The HTC Touch Viva is not a high-end smart phone and lacks some bells and whistles. There is no 3G or GPS, but you do get Wi-Fi and a revamped TouchFLO interface that’s similar to TouchFLO 3D and runs really fast. With this cell phone users can flip through album artwork, pictures and videos as if they were picture cards in the palm of the hand. Users can also visit websites, enjoy YouTube videos and browse Google Maps. With a built in RSS feed with this device, users can get latest news or send and receive email with Microsoft Office documents. In fact, we think it is one of the fastest Windows Mobile phones we have ever used. HTC Touch Viva is equipped with 2-megapixel camera, a touch-sensitive 2.8-inch 320×240-pixel display, 256MB of internal memory expandable with microSD, Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth, GPS navigation and a sluggish 201MHz CPU. The HTC Touch Viva also supports good battery life and that makes it compatible with other touch phones in the market.

HTC Touch Viva

HTC Touch Viva Exterior

HTC Touch Viva is a candy bar form factor mobile phone, which is available in only Strom Gray skin color. From the side it is pretty obvious that the Viva is a budget model. It lacks both the classy piano black finish found on the Touch HD and the more metallic shell used on the mid-range Touch 3G. On the front it is equipped with a large 2.8 inches TFT resistive touch screen for viewing and just under that there is a 5-way navigation key and send and end keys. On the top of HTC Touch Viva there is a power button and on the left side there is volume control buttons. On the bottom of the mobile phone there is a miniUSB port which also used to plug in the head phone. On the back of HTC Touch Viva there is a 2 mega pixel camera with video recording. The measurements of HTC Viva are 104.5 x 59 x 15.8 mm and weights around 110 g.

HTC Touch Viva - Low Price Smart Phone Key Specifications

HTC Touch Viva’s key specifications include a tri band GSM, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, a 2.0 megapixel camera, TouchFLO 3D interface, handwriting recognition, microSD slot, stereo Bluetooth, Pocket Office, MP3 player and a WAP 2.0 browser and Voice memo. HTC Touch Viva can facilitate you with its best battery time of 270 hours on standby and 8 hours of talk time.

HTC Touch Viva Technical Specifications

HTC Touch Viva General Specifications

Status: Available since October, 2008
Phone dimension: 104.5 x 59 x 15.8 mm
Phone weight: 110 g
Phone color: Storm Gray
Battery: Standby Up to 270 h
Talk time Up to 8 h

HTC Touch Viva Network and Technology

Operating system: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
CPU: TI OMAP 850 200 MHz CPU
2G network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (PocketIE)
GPRS: Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
Messaging: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email and Instant Messaging

HTC Touch Viva Multimedia Specifications

Display size: 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches
- TouchFLO finger swipe navigation
- Handwriting recognition
- 5-way navigation
Screen type: TFT resistive touch screen, 65K colors
Camera: 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, video
Card slot: microSD (TransFlash)
- 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM
EDGE: Class 10, 236.8 kbps
HSCSD: No
USB: Yes, miniUSB
3G: No
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
Bluetooth: Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port: No
Ring tones: Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
Vibration: Yes
Games: Yes
Phone book: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photo call
Call records: Practically unlimited
Java MIDP 2.0
Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer)
Voice memo
MP3/AAC player
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1100 mAh