The HTC Touch Viva is an admirable and compact Windows Mobile touch screen candy bar Smartphone within a stunning design and an ultra-sensitive touch screen which comes equipped with huge set of impressive features and smart technologies providing them in an affordable price. The HTC Touch Viva is an update of the original HTC Touch. The dimensions of the phone are 102 x 53.6 x 14.5 mm and the device can fit nicely in user’s palm as its weighing only 96 grams. It comes in a sleek looking grey colored casing with curvaceous edges and a smooth finished casing. The phone furnishes bright 2.8 inches QVGA LCD touch sensitive touch screen displaying 65k Colors and resolution is 240 x 320 Pixels and viewing text, pictures and video on this colorful screen is great. The HTC Touch Viva doesn’t have a keypad as it is full touch screen functionality. It only has call, end and a navigation key as hardware buttons sit on the front of the casing beneath the screen. The screen pretty responsive to finger presses so you don’t have to constantly dab at it to get it to register commands. The Viva uses the 2D version of HTC’s TouchFlo^TM interface, which lacks the 3D animations and transitions of TF3D, В and the touch screen supports finger swipe navigation to get to different screens of information, such as weather updates, contacts, music, photos and the web with Handwriting recognition which allows the user to write letters onscreen using their finger and 5-way navigation key which is located below the touch screen. This Smartphone comes with a stylus to navigate the menus on the touch screen. The TouchFlo offers finger-friendly access to most of the phone’s key features. You can move between functions such as text messaging, the music player or the Internet browser just by running your finger across a row of icons positioned at the bottom of the screen.

This HTC Smartphone operates on QualcommВ® 201MHz OMAP 850 processor and Windows Mobile 6.1 ProfessionalВ® Operating System and offers high quality connectivity features including 2G quad-band GSM with the frequency bands of 1900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 850 and 900 MHz, GPRS and EDGE technologies. This Smartphone can be used worldwide and the handset will automatically switch between network bands.A disappointing thing is that it lacks 3G and GPS, though it comes with WiFi 802.11 b/g. Data can also be shared via 2.0 Bluetooth with EDR and USB options. A2DP and AVRCP is also there for wireless stereo headsets. You can also enjoy music and movie clips with HTC’s Media Hub. HTC has created its Touch Viva with a 40 chords capable ringtones, making a great phone for you to add all the ringtones you wish.

HTC Touch Viva Camera smartphone is loaded with a 3.2 megapixel camera with Fixed Focus, Photo Album and Video recording capabilities for stills and video, but lacks flash. Also it has a secondary video call camera. Music player will allow you to listen to your favorite music, but the downside is that it does not come with a 3.5 mm headphone jack. You are going to need both a headset and an adaptor from miniUSB to 3.5mm if you want to use the Touch Viva for music. Or, of course, you could use Bluetooth with a Bluetooth stereo headset. The handset doesn’t actually come with any headphones at all! Instead you have to buy them from the HTC accessories store! You also have the option of using Audio Manager (the latter of which is integrated in TouchFLO’s music tab) or a Windows Media Player. You can filter your music by artist, album, genre, composer and you can also create playlists on the phone. It also has built-in microphone and speaker. This Smartphone will give you a unique internet experience. It comes incorporated with Opera Mobile 9.5 web browser, which makes surfing the web considerably easier. The Windows Explorer is also available. You can move around web pages by brushing the screen in whichever direction you choose. В It features a nice and useful feature namely the bar for zoom adjustment which gives you additional control over the amount of information that’s being displayed and allows you to adjust the page size to whatever you like. Unfortunately, there’s no accelerometer on board, and no option to switch the display’s orientation to landscape mode, the best way to view full web pages.

The HTC Viva have of course includes all of the basic and standard applications you would expect. These include a calendar, personal organizer, calculator and alarm clock. Other advanced features included on the Touch Viva HTC are instant messaging ability, the ability to view threaded sms (this works in a similar way to how you view emails in Gmail) and Office Mobile which has a universal document viewer (for viewing Excel, Word, PowerPoint and PDF files) and the ability for editing Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. HTC has added a few more applications including a dedicated viewer for YouTube allowing you to browse and view the site’s online video with ease and fortunately, a handy RSS news reader. Google Maps is also preinstalled, but don’t get too excited because the handset doesn’t have GPS onboard – it just uses mast triangulation to work out your position. Furthermore, it has various usable features including Speaker Phone that helps to make hands free conversation, built in microphone allows you to make voice and sound recordings, HTC weather application, SMS, MMS, Email with Attachments and Instant Messaging. With Windows MobileВ® 6, the HTC Touch also provides instant access to your OutlookВ® email.You can customize your HTC viva with a choice of 40 polyphonic ringtones or MP3 ringtones; you can also play games on your phone. Built-in storage space is 192 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM and if you want to increase it then you can choose MicroSD^TM Memory card. The HTC Touch 3G sports 1100 mAh Li-Ion battery which lets you talk about 6.30 hours and lasts in stand-by around 365 hours.