HTC has grown up as of late. Their latest release, the HTC Touch Pro, enters the Windows Mobile war with a maturity found wanting in its younger sibling the Touch Diamond.....

With its sleek, minimalist, four-buttoned front, and diamond-angled back, the Touch Pro is identical in appearance to the Touch Diamond. But crafty business-focused touches have been added to make working a tad bit easier.

A slide-out, five-row QWERTY keyboard has been added to speed up type-intensive tasks and to enable you to take full-advantage of the Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional system, which includes Windows Live, Google Maps, Microsoft Office and Opera 9.5 as standard. HTC have also heaped on some extra RAM (the Touch Pro has 288MB RAM whereas the Diamond has 192MB) so key lag has been reduced a little. The built-in G-sensor automatically switches your page view from portrait to landscape view when you turn the handset sideways to use the keyboard.

To satisfy the demands of all those who work hard and play hard, HTC Touch Pro allows users to access and download from the internet at broadband speed with 7.2Mbps HSDPA and wireless connectivity. Rounding off an effortless internet surfing session is the quality of page displays. The Touch Pro’s 2.8” VGA 480x640 screen enables not only beautiful Web browsing, but also top quality viewing of photos taken by the phone’s 3.2 mega-pixel auto focus camera. Alternatively, you can zone out by tuning into the FM radio.

Of course, HTC hasn’t neglected Touch Diamond’s TouchFLO 3D feature. The dark, glossy panels might mean that the Touch Pro, like its predecessor, is a fingerprint hoarder. But the Touch Pro parts ways with the Diamond in that its TouchFLO 3D is more responsive to the touch, making common tasks such as messaging and playing media files a more sublime experience.