HTC Touch Pro2 review

Jonathon "Biased" Bray?

"It weighs nearly 190g, is 17mm thick, 116mm tall and 59mm wide - so large, in fact, that it feels more like a small mobile computer than a phone. It's bigger and heavier than the iPhone 3G".

Yes, the iPhone is way lighter than the Touch Pro 2 (135g versus 178.5g - quite how less than 180g magically transforms into 'nearly 190g' escapes me. Why stop at rounding up only twice [to 180 then 190g]? Why not round up to the nearest hundred grams? Or the nearest quarter kilogram?), but in terms of physical dimensions, they're very similar. The iPhone is 4.35 mm thinner (or 3/4 as thick), but height and width are basically the same. But you don't mention that at all - you just keep asserting that it's too 'big', or 'too bulky' - words associated with physical size rather than mass.

In fact, your closing statement is that "it's too big for [you] to recommend it". Not too heavy - too big. Well, only in terms of thickness, which tends not to be the dimension people worry the most about, unless it's ridiculously thick.

iPhone fanboyism prevails again, it seems...

By bioreit on 30 Mar 2010