Many experts were a bit too quick to compare the novelty with such models as
htc touch cruise polaris, reasonably putting forward an argument that it presents the same sequel of the last year's X500 as Touch Cruise with P3300. However that is totally false association for a very simple reason - HTC Touch Cruise Polaris itself does not position Polaris as a substitute for Artemis. A worthy sequel is going to appear only in next year and won’t be much more expensive than the original - as a matter of fact, the situation loosely follows the link established between X500 and X600.
The difference in price with the last one is so considerable (E-TEN glofiish X600 costs about 450 euros, htc touch cruise polaris price – almost 650 Euros) that these devices are only comparable in terms of their release dates and that’s not a fact that E-TEN won’t fail to meet the delivery dates again (the company are still having problems with X800). It is not difficult to understand that htc touch cruise is little more than a copy of the last year's E-TEN development in new design (let’s remind that WM6 was available for X500 as well). And as for the difference between P3300 and discounted htc touch cruise, it is really great - comparing the both devices, HTC tried to consider all the possible complaints of those displeased by P3300. In particular, memory card hot swap support, faster CPU, etc. As a result we get an unique offering – a top class navigation communicator which has no direct competitors in the market. The nearest analogs (in terms of price as well) Gigabyte GSmart i350 and E-TEN glofiish X800 can only boast a VGA-screen, but the value of this point can be easily understood by the example of other large WM players - at present no one has supported the undertaking of said companies and that speaks for itself.
Sales Package
cheap htc touch cruise polaris comes with a bundling typical to most PDA phones; there are no nice extras like a memory card that came with the original Touch or a cradle that came with P3300. htc cruise polaris touch box also comes with all htc touch cruise polaris orange necessary accessories. Thee latter decision, however, was taken under the pressure of retailers who complained of a decline in demand for accessories. The sales package also includes a USB/HTC ExtUSB data cable, a wire stereo headset (suited to fit the ExtUSB standard), a battery, a software disk, a printed manual and a case to carry the phone in. The package is a little bit poor taking note of considerable price on Cruise; one could expect a more complete set.
Memory
HTC touch cruise polaris Australia has a total of 256 Mb of hard disk storage and some 128 Mb of RAM at its disposal. That's quite sufficient for basic functionality but not more than that. Unfortunately no memory card comes bundled, so it has to be purchased separately. According to htc touch cruise polaris reviews from wireless galaxy, the memory card slot is the standard microSD one, the most universal variant for the time being. You can use memory cards up to the capacity of 4 Gb. SD 2.0 is fully supported. As it has already been mentioned, it keeps with the hot swapping support - a pleasant surprise for P3300 owners who had to take the battery off for this ordinary procedure.
The screen of discounted
htc touch cruise polaris is powered by the TFT technology, its diagonal is 2,8’’ and the resolution is 320x240 quite in accordance with the QVGA standard. The color depth is 65K colors, a solution typical of Window Mobile, the screen diagonal is on a level with Touch, and exceeds Dual’s 2,6’’. The image quality is high, yet the maximum brightness is not as high as one might want. The image of cell phone accessories dearness is better in comparison with the Artemis, the view angles are much better.
