While not sold widely in the United States, the HTC Touch Cruise is technically the first UMTS-variant of the HTC Touch line to be sold in the United States.
Sold only as an unlocked phone in the U.S., the phone was sold more abroad in countries like Australia, which helped HTC to justify the offering. The Touch Cruise also replaced the P3600 Trinity, a device that HTC has refused to upgrade to American version of Windows Mobile 6 (despite offering the upgrade in other regions).
This finally completes HTC’s promise to upgrade all Windows Mobile 6 devices, to version 6.1. HTC also noted to PhoneNews.com that this process has ensured that all Qualcomm-based devices sold in the United States (aside from the P3600) have received “video performance enhancements” prompted from the HTC driver scandal.
