If you’re a travelling business professional in search of a solid and powerful 3G smartphone, the HTC TyTYN II is the phone for you.

The Second TyTN is a welcome addition to the HTC family, being the Kaiser of the brand. It is worth naming it TyTN as it adds just what the phone needed – GPS chip for navigation. We are happy to see that the voice quality has been improved, the construction is moved to the next level (tilt display design, spring assisted mechanism and rubber back) and the software is customized with the TouchFlo technology we’ve known from the Touch.

As Windows Mobile 6 devices go, the TyTN II takes some beating. HTC has raised the bar with the feature list and improved keyboard usability dramatically with its display and keyboard engineering nous. Connectivity is excellent too. And GPS is a welcome and genuinely useful extra.

The TyTn II is an evolutionary change from the original TyTn, with the latest version of Windows Mobile and many improvements, both small and large. If you already have a TyTn, the question of whether to upgrade might be a tough one — while few of the changes are significant enough to warrant an $800 upgrade all by themselves, taken as a whole the TyTn II seems significantly better than its predecessor.

The only thing I’m really disappointed in is that, like, Riyad did with the Vario III, I’ve found that the camera is not particularly good, which is a bit of a let-down coming from the excellent K800i. The screen still isn’t particularly high res either, but I haven’t noticed it limiting the usefulness of the TyTN II, and other than these two small reservations, it’s pretty much the perfect device.

It is the tilting screen that steals the show as far as the HTC TyTN II is concerned, but there are other factors that draw us to it as well. The plentiful features, good mini keyboard and software extras all add up to make the TyTN II a strong contender in today’s mobile device arena.

When the time comes to move away from my current mobile phone contract and upgrade from my current phone, this is going to be the handset I’ll be looking to replace it with. I can’t praise it any higher than that.

The unit is probably one of the most powerful Windows Mobile phones I have used to date other than the HTC Advantage.

A superbly packaged do-everything mobile workhorse that will appeal to business users and gadget freaks alike.

The HTC TyTN II is a mobile heavyweight in every sense with a feature set and performance that will send the business professional and into raptures.

The HTC TyTN II is a brick of a mobile phone that is as about as exciting as watching paint dry. However, with so much packed into the device you can’t help think that for the geeky mobile worker open to the idea of anything that is Microsoft powered this will be a wet dream come true.