Thanks to the folks at WirelessImports.com, I had the opportunity to spend a few hours with HTC’s new uber-smartphone, the TyTN II. The TyTN II can be thought of as a blend of the HTC Atlas and Touch models, with a twist. Or, more accurately, a tilt. The TyTN II gets its overall design and keyboard from devices like HTC’s Atlas, while it inherits some of the HTC Touch’s finger scrolling capabilities. But the thing that really sets the TyTN II apart from the crowd is how its display can be tilted up to 40 degrees when it is slid back to expose the QWERTY keyboard. This gives it a laptop like look similar to that of the HTC Universal of 2005.
With that said, though, I don’t really find the TyTN II to be any more useful sitting on a desk when it comes to text input. I still prefer to hold it in my hands and to use my thumbs. But the new tilting display does, perhaps, make it easier to read data from the screen while the unit sits on a desk, and certainly should help when it comes to watching videos on the device. Considering that it has tri-band HSDPA 3G data support, that certainly is something the device is easily capable of doing.
HTC TyTN II Live Photo Gallery (MobileBurn)