The HTC Touch Viva has a beautiful 2.8 inch TFT resistive touch screen display with a resolution of 240x320 pixels and the ability to display 65k colors. The phone comes with 5-way navigation button and hand writing recognition to make writing easy.

The HTC Touch Viva has no 3.5mm audio jack, this means you have to use the bundled headphone to listen to your favourite music. To help you get all your music on the phone, the HTC Touch Viva has a 256 MB of ROM and 128 MB of RAM. You can use a microSD card to increase the storage capacity of the phone.

The HTC Touch Viva features GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA up to 7.4 Mbps, Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g), Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, and a miniUSB v2.0 port for PC connectivity and charging.

The HTC Touch Viva has a 2 MP camera which has the ability to take pictures with a maximum resolution of 1600x1200 pixels. The HTC Touch Viva also records video at VGA resolution. For video calling junkies, there is no front-facing camera, or secondary camera.

The HTC Touch Viva runs on a 200 MHz ARM926EJ-S processor and a TI OMAP 850 chipset. The HTC Touch Viva runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional as the OS. The phone, unfortunately, has no GPS.

To support all this, the HTC Touch Viva is given a standard 1100 mAh Li-ion battery which gives a standby time of up to 270 hours and a talk time of up to 8 hours."; $review2 = "After the popularity of HTC Touch, HTC introduced several additions to the touch family. The newest addition is a budget friendly Touch Viva which presents touch interface functionality to those with a tight budget. Of course, HTC has made some compromises on the hardware to meet the low price requirement.

Compared to the original HTC Touch, Touch Viva is bigger. There is nothing new on the hardware front to justify this bigger size, but HTC is slowly moving towards a bigger smart phone trend. The 2.8\" QVGA touch screen is good enough, but the concave appearance of the screen is not very pleasing for the eyes. Under direct sunlight, the screen has very poor legibility. Below the screen, there are only two hardware keys, but a navigational 5-way D pad is given.

HTC Touch Viva is a Windows Mobile smart phone and thanks to the TouchFlo interface that makes navigation a breeze. In the previous touch phones like Diamond, HTC included TouchFlo 3D. In HTC Touch Viva, the interface available is simple TouchFlo 2D. There is not much of a difference with respect to usability of the interface, but 3D animations that we have enjoyed are quite missing. However, for a modest 200Mhz processor, more load can't be provided.

A 2 megapixel camera is present at the back of the phone and it just reminds you that smart phones need to have a camera. There is nothing special about it and the picture quality is just mediocre. Even though video recording feature is provided, videos are good enough only for MMS.

Just like latest HTC mobiles, Touch Viva also has Opera as the default web browser. With different connectivity options, the feature rich Opera browser makes it an interesting experience to browse the web. You have to remember that it is not a fully featured smart phone and Viva doesn't support 3G. On the multimedia side, Touch Viva doesn't fall short with an average audio player that can easily be accessed using your fingers. Videos with a resolution of 320 x 240 are played back beautifully by Touch Viva, but the phone stuttered a lot with high resolution videos."; include 'phone.php'; ?>