HTC is a big name in the mobile phone market and it's becoming more and more prevalent. Any level of phone - from 3G to smart phone, across some impressive business devices - can be found in the HTC family.

The HTC Touch Viva is aimed at the users who want a decent phone with good capability at an affordable price.

At only 16mm thick and 110grams, smooth and stylish, the HTC Touch Viva loses nothing in looks and feels like a well built and neatly designed handset, winning points all-round on first impressions.

There is no 3G capability included, but the HTC Touch Viva does feature Wi-Fi capability for connecting to high speed broadband, something that many handsets in this price bracket tend to omit. This will surely be a boost to its popularity as Wi-Fi is seen more as a necessity than a luxury these days.

A 2.8inch touch sensitive screen running in QVGA resolution is applied, and the Windows OS - with HTC's "TouchFLO" navigation system - will be familiar to many and is very easy to use. Memory of 128MB is adequate, and it is also expandable - that is very capable and you are able to store a lot of photos and videos on this phone. It offers 3.5mm head jacks, too. A new element is featured, namely the bar for zoom adjustment, which is a nice and useful feature and gives additional control over the amount of information that’s being displayed. But the camera is rather basic - only a 2 mega pixel device. The HTC Touch Viva also has GPS and a-GPS as well as Bluetooth version 2 and USB connections.

The HTC Touch Viva has a decent battery that provides a claimed eight hours talk time along with fifty hours of standby capability, figures that put it very much in the upper echelons of talk time capability for phones of this diminutive size.

Overall, the HTC Touch Viva is a great phone and offers a lot to its potential users. If a capable stylish phone with standard functions with WIFI connection is what you want and you don't mind the very basic camera, then the HTC Touch Viva is a worthwhile addition to a shopping list. Available at some very good prices and network bundles this is a perfectly usable phone that will not disappoint anyone for whom high end phone is not their thing.