Full Review
Features and Design The HTC Touch Dual is about two inches by four inches so, when sideways, it can fit in an adult’s palm. It’s just over a half inch thick, a little meatier than the average smartphone. It has a dark blue shell and a porous, almost rubbery coating that is slightly sticky to the touch. The Dual Touch is easy to grip. The phone is designed like a slider, albeit with a vertical slide instead of the usual horizontal. The top portion is taken up by a tall 2.8 inch glass-like screen, two buttons and a flat control. The two vertical buttons, the equivalent of traditional stop and go buttons, glow red and green when they are available. The flat control, which serves as an all-purpose menu joystick, is a square metal button surrounded by a touch-sensitive border. It only takes a minute or two to adjust to the unique design, though people with large fingers and thumbs will have to keep a steady hand for precise movements. The bottom portion of the phone is just the keyboard, a flat-surfaced collection of buttons made of a light, crystal-like material. Like other aesthetic decisions, HTC skips the usual design and puts three key options on each button, following the QWERTY setup as close as possible. (The first key is “QW!,” the second “ER1,” and so on.) The keyboard isn’t as wide as, say, the full-sized Sidekick, but isn’t as tiny as the average phone. The buttons and the lettering system are fast, responsive and easy to understand. HTC kept the ports and controls simple. On the left side are the volume buttons and the mini-USB/power port. On the right is a well-disguised camera quick key and an equally well-hidden stylus holder (the instrument can be removed by pulling the small notch on the stylus itself). camera quickkey phone are simple. A power button is at the top and a fancy-looking, concave camera lens is fashioned on the back on the phone. The HTC Dual Touch is a GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone, tri-band 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz, and is an unlocked phone, so you may use any current cell phone provider that is compatible with those networks. We tried AT&T, and it worked fast and smoothly with Internet browsing and with downloading. It takes powerful pictures and is multimedia friendly, so we would recommend including a microSD card with any purchase. 
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by Candice Lester on March 31, 2008:
“First bought the phone and though it was great, has a whirlwind of features settings and programs then realized that there's no way to disable the internet button nor is there any way to remove dictionary from automatically starting every time you sms. May...” More...