HTC Touch Cruise 2009 Passes FCC

The HTC Touch Cruise 2009 is reported to have passed FCC review while featuring AT&T's 3G bands. In addition to the 3G support, the new handset also sports 'Footprint', a feature that allows users to take a “digital postcard,” which includes a photograph, audio clips as well as geo-tagging with GPS coordinates so that they can find out afterwards where the photo was taken.

The specification list of the HTC Touch Cruise 2009 shows that it is powered by a Qualcomm MSM7225, 528 MHz processor, it includes 512 MB ROM memory, as well as 256 MB of RAM, and it runs under the Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system. The handset provides support for HSDPA/WCDMA: 850/1900 MHz, up to 384 kbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds and Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz frequencies.

The handset sports a 2.8-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen, which comes with QVGA resolution, a 3.2-megapixel camera with fixed focus is also present, as well as multimedia capabilities, including support for AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR, AWB, QCP, MP3, WMA, WAV, MIDI audio file formats and WMV, ASF, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, M4V, AVI video formats.

Other specifications of the device include A-GPS capabilities, Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for stereo, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g) connectivity, HTC ExtUSB (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one), microSD memory card slot (SD 2.0 compatible), as well as wireless headsets, HTC TouchFLO, 4-Way navigation wheel with Enter button and HTC Footprints button.

The new HTC Touch Cruise 2009 measures 102 x 53.5 x 14.5 mm (4.02 x 2.11 x 0.57 inches) and weighs 103 grams (3.63 ounces). It comes with a 1100 mAh Lithium-ion battery capable of delivering up to 330 hours of standby time for GSM (400 hours for WCDMA) and up to 400 minutes talk time for GSM (375 minutes for WCDMA). No information on the price or availability of the phone is available at the moment.