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The Touch Diamond hasn't even gone on sale in most countries and already, another new version has been announced. T-Mobile Germany launched three new MDA phones (its name for the HTC devices) and one of them is the MDA Vario IV, which is the ...

T-Mobile and HTC have announced their latest Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional powered smartphone, the MDA Vario IV. Based on the oft-rumored HTC Raphael, this handset offers a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera.
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All the brands are producing cell phones with the latest technology and gadgets, with each new major release of the brands latest design it comes with fancy features that we all want and 2008 is shaping up to be the best year yet for cool phones. This year will be a major battle between the big names in the phone business and three of the biggest phones would be the HTC Touch Diamond, Apple 3G iPhone and Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. For the first time ever, you can see these phones side by side

The second half of this year should be giving you some headache because you have some much choices with the new gadgets like Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, HTC Touch Diamond, New Apple 3G iPhone and others. CNET Asia set up the Xperia X1, Touch Diamond and iPhone side by side and resulted a nice comparison photos. So which one you are buying?

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T-Mobile brings new HTC smartphone to Europe under the name "MDA Compact IV".It has the latest version of HTC's 3D touch interface. Main features are:

Windows Mobile 6.1; HSDPA/HSUPA at speeds of 7.2 Mbps; 3.2 Mpix camera with autofocus; VGA touch screen; GPS; 4GB of internal memory...

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T-Mobile in Europe announced a new smartphone from HTC, the MDA Compact IV. The design of this phone will be exclusive to T-Mobile in Europe, though other versions of the phone may become available to countries outside of Europe. ...
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Today T-Mobile has made the announcement of their version (T-Mobile MDA Compact IV) of the HTC Touch Diamond, which is the variant we reported earlier today. The T-Mobile MDA Compact IV has the same feature as the new HTC Touch Diamond, it comes with a slightly different phone design. It is more rounded shape at the corner compare to HTC Touch Diamond.

T-Mobile MDA Compact IV Specifications

• Size: 102 x 51 x 11.33mm
• Weight: 95 g
• Connectivity: WCDMA / HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA
• Operating system: Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
• Display: 2.8-inch VGA touch screen
• Camera: 3.2MP
• Secondary camera for video call
• Internal memory: 4GB dynamic memory, 256 MB flash, 128 MB RAM
• Bluetooth: 2.0 with EDR
• Wireless: WiFi 802.11b/g
• GPS: GPS/AGPS
• Interface: HTC ExtUSB (mini-USB and audio jack in one; USB 2.0 High-Speed)
• Chipset: Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528MHz
• FM Radio
• GSM Triband

The T-Mobile MDA Vario IV also featuring the new TouchFlo 3D user interface, but giving you an extra QWERTY in sliding format. With the extra keyboard add-on the smartphone thickness is now about 18mm, compare to the MDA Compact IV at 12mm. The T-Mobile MDA Vario IV also comes with built in WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and support HSDPA 7.2 Mbps data connection. It does not have a 4GB built in memory though, ...

The HTC Touch Diamond pushes the Windows Mobile interface much closer to touchscreen nirvana. This smart phone is compact but boasts a large screen and is packed with features, from GPS to HSDPA. Will it be good enough to compete with the best?

It looks like Taiwan phone service provider will be getting different version of HTC Touch Diamond. All of them will have the same features and user interface (Touchflo 3D), the only difference is the casing design especially the back phone case.

The other model will be called HTC P3702, of course we can’t call it a Touch Diamond any more without the unique geometric facets at its back. The source said that the HTC P3702 is named as HTC Victor, and the model number for HTC Diamond is HTC P3700. Both model will be available in June with the HTC Victor available few days after the HTC Touch Diamond in store.

HTC Touch Diamond Key Specifications

• Size: 102 x 51 x 11.33mm
• Weight: 110 g
• Connectivity: WCDMA / HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA
• Operating system: Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
• Display: 2.8-inch VGA touch screen
• Camera: 3.2MP, with video calling
• Internal memory: 4 GB Internal Storage, 256 MB flash, 192 MB RAM
• Bluetooth: 2.0 with EDR
• Wireless: WiFi 802.11b/g
• GPS: GPS/AGPS
• Interface: HTC ExtUSBTM (mini-USB and audio jack in one; USB 2.0 High-Speed)
• Battery: 900 mAh
• Talk time: GSM: up to 4 hours
• Standby time: GSM: up to 300 hours/100 hours with push ...
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I was taking the weekend off for the most part, but I noticed that my buddy Leigh Geary is doing a 1 week, diary style review of the HTC Touch Diamond. I was going to post a blurb pointing you all to his adventures Tuesday, but since he sent me a note, I figured I would hurry up and get this up. Thanks Leigh and congrats on getting your hands on an awesome looking phone! Head over to CoolSmartphone for the following days worth of insight… A week with the HTC Touch Diamond - Day 1 A week wi

Previously HTC planned to have 2 millions of Touch Diamond smartphones sold by the end of the year.

But now Chinese "Commercial Times" reports that according to HTC's CE...

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Mobile-Review recently came out with a very detailed piece by piece info depot and review of the HTC Touch Diamond. Mobile-Review dished out everything about the new handset from the casing and materials to the platform and the user interface. One of Mobile-Review’s complaints is that the glossy plastic used for the back panel tends to accumulate fingerprint marks when the phone is used. There also seems to be a magnetized compartment for the stylus, although the review expresses doubts of t

I don’t know what’s so special about India, except for the billion or so population with 300 million of these 1 billion using cellphones, why HTC chose them to be the first to try out the Touch Diamond. Maybe it’s the fact that Windows Mobile is the number two smatphone OS in that country and also that iPhone has yet to be released there.

The Touch Diamond is without doubt a genuine iPhone killer, but with 3G and HSDPA disabled, Indians will have to decide whether they are going to invest $640 (also available at iPhone’s exclusive carrier) on a beautiful but EDGE-only phone when iPhone is just a few weeks or months away.

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Diary Video Review of HTC Touch Diamond Available 25 May, 2008 Posted by SolSie As Mobile Phone, News, Review, Windows Mobile (0) Comment The site CoolSmartPhone from U.K. has managed to received a HTC Touch Diamond to play for the week. To tease us, they will be doing a video diary for the next 7 days to show off all the capabilities of the device and to answer to questions you might have. You can check out the first installment where the author shows off his “unboxing” experien

First glances at the HTC Touch Diamond Sunday, May 25th, 2008 Last Thursday, a group of bloggers as well as tech-forumites, journalists and various media were invited by Gina of The Right Spin to the HTC Touch Diamond unveiling at the swanky Shangri La. Before going to the event, in all honesty, I was quite nonplussed about the phone, seeing as to how homogeneous phones are becoming, with similar functions and even similar physical looks. How can this one be any different? But the more

HTC has announced that it has released an update to Windows Mobile 6.1 for the European users of its TyTN II smartphone, a device marketed as the AT&T Tilt in the USA. For now, at least, there is still no update for the Tilt.
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HTC will be working on Bharti Airtel in India to launch an EDGE version of HTC Touch Diamond. Bharti Airtel will start selling the non-3G version in mid-June with a price of about $640 USD.

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The HTC Touch Dual is now on sale at Best Buy. The HTC Touch Dual is a new slider phone that also has a touchscreen (as the name suggests). It won’t come cheap, at $549.99 unlocked, however it is a pretty well-endowed cell phone. There’s always the possibility of a US carrier picking this one up as well, which would bring down the costs quite a bit.

The HTC Touch Dual features include: standard numeric keypad, lacks WiFi but features 3G HSDPA 3.6mbps, Windows Mobile 6.1 & has a second generation TouchFLO interface. The HTC Touch Dual is a pretty decent cell phone overall - a little pricey, but still worth the money.

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The Rogers HTC Shift X9501 is now on sale. The Rogers HTC Shift X9501 is a brand new UMPC, running the full Windows Vista Business Edition OS. In other words, is basically an Internet-ready small laptop. While it won’t come cheap, CAD $1600 on 3 year contract, it’s definitely got some features to back up the big price tag.

The Rogers HTC Shift X9501 features will include: “SnapVUE technology, which allows the user to load a basic operating system, to check emails, messages, and contacts without the need to boot the heavier Windows system, thus helping to improve the battery life. Shift features a 7” touch sensitive screen, 40 GB of storage, a full QWERTY keyboard and a touch pad. As it has a quad-band GSM and tri-band HSDPA receiver, it can work worldwide.” Unfortunately, the Rogers HTC Shift X9501 won’t replace your cell phone, and I’m sure you wouldn’t want to hold it up to your ear for long periods of time anyway.

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HTC will introduce in Europe market the P3470 (Pharos). P3470 is a PDA phone running the WIndows Mobile 6 OS. The EDGE-enabled P3470 is running at 200MHz processor with 128MB RAM and 256MB ROM.

Rogers Wireless has launched the HTC Shift in Canada.

This high-end UMPC is availabe for $1,599.99 on a 3-year contract on minimum $50 Flex Rate Data Plan. Here are some of the device's main characteristics:

7" "slide-n-tilt" touchscreen; 40GB hard drive; Wi-Fi; Quad-band (850...

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HTC Touch Diamond Will Have Opera 9.5 23 May, 2008 Posted by SolSie As News, Windows Mobile (0) Comment Opera seems to hold off on the release of Opera 9.5 until the HTC Diamond launch. In a press release, Opera officially announced a customized version will be featured on the upcoming HTC device. The new Opera will enable easy one-handed viewing and effortless navigation and promises to deliver without compromise your browsing experience. The HTC-specific version of Opera Mobile 9.5

Best Buy Mobile is planning to begin offering the HTC Touch Dual this weekend. This touchscreen slider is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 and features a 2 megapixel camera with video capture.
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This is the new HTC Touch Diamond and its light, small and sports TouchFLO 3D.

HTC Touch Dual

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While you're out buying goods for your Memorial Day BBQ, why not swing by Best Buy and pick up a HTC Touch Dual? Yes, the Touch Dual will be available in stores and online starting this weekend for a nice chunk of change--$549 ...

Today, HTC announced that the Touch Dual will be available unlocked at Best Buy locations and online beginning this weekend. It will cost $549.

MobileReview reviews the HTC Diamond: “The HTC Diamond gets the company as close to the concept of a mass-market Windows Mobile powered device as they have never been before. The truth is, there aren’t that many factors that may hinder the cell phone’s success. Among them are a quite hefty price tag and HTC being a relatively unknown brand (the average user will never put it in a league with Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung). As for the rest, the HTC Diamond is free of almost all constraints and limitations that hampered its predecessors.

The HTC Diamond is a mixed bag design-wise, but it represents a logical leap forward in all other departments, aimed to hit the mass-market hard and appeal the users outside the circle of Windows Mobile specialists.”

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Opera today announced the availability of Opera Mobile 9.5 on the new HTC Touch Diamond. The customized HTC-specific version enables easy one-handed viewing and effortless navigation. Page viewing and panning allows users to scan and navigate pages quickly while Opera Zoom enables users to dive into the page and get closer to the content they want. Turning the device sideways automatically rotates the Web page view from a portrait to landscape view.

Opera Mobile 9.5 makes multi-tasking easier than ever before with improved tabbed browsing. In addition, productivity tools like the ability to save pages for offline browsing, Web address auto complete and password manager allow for a more enjoyable experience. In addition, Opera Mobile 9.5 gets users closer to family and friends as it allows users to easily share images from online photo albums or any other Website through MMS or e-mail.

Other features in Opera Mobile 9.5 include:

• Tabbed browsing
• Improved text wrap
• Landscape mode
• Call phone number directly from Web page
• History and bookmarks
• Copy text

“Opera Mobile 9.5 on the HTC Touch Diamond will bring to customers the most powerful Web browser yet on a mobile phone,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. “Opera is on the road ...

Instead of previous forecast of 2 million units, a chinese newspaper “Commercial Times” reported that the CEO Peter Chou now expects to see 3 Millions units sold in the next 7 months starting June.

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Just a couple weeks ago, HTC announced the HTC Touch Diamond. Since then there has been quite the uproar of anticipation for the hot Windows Mobile Phone. I am excited to see the reports floating in and here is what I have been waiting on, a full review. Mobile-Review.com has gotten their mitts on this device and provides us with a complete review. Head over to check it out. --- Related Articles at Mobility Site:HTC Diamond Keyboard Hacked and Available…HTC Touch Diamond - OMGThe Diamond

Even before they release the iPhone, Rogers will have a mobile game changer for their customers. HTC, maker of Windows Mobile smartphones, presents a breakthrough in user interface: Microsoft Origami(TM) Experience 2.0 via the HTC Shift X9501.

Shift has a 7-inch touch screen that tilts to reveal a QWERTY keyboard. It has WiFi, triband HSPA and Bluetooth and a front camera for video conferencing. It’s a hard-disk portable, packing 40GB of storage space. Soon HTC will even add TeleNav GPS. This Windows Vista-running UMPC will not come cheap. You can take it home for $1,599.99 for a three year term and a minimum $50 Flex Rate Data Plan.

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World's first mobile computer with push email combines the power of Windows Vista and the speed of Canada's most reliable wireless network
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HTC plans to release a Windows Mobile 6.1 update for its TyTN II smartphone in the near future, but if you can't wait you can get it now from MoDaCo.

There are some insignificant video performance tweaks, apart from the updated system, but nothing revolutionary to menti...

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DigitalBurn reviews the HTC X7510 Advantage: “The HTC X7510 Advantage is not likely to be my every day device, due to its size, but I can certainly see where it would be great on business trips where I don’t need a laptop to do photo processing. A device like the HTC X7510 Advantage can offer me enough computing power to cover live press events and take care of issues back at the home office without the extra weight and bulk of a laptop. But with a price tag of well over US$1000, I feel few people are going to be willing to drop the required coin to pick up one of these gadgets. Add to that the fact that the device can not be sold in the U.S. due to some Qualcomm chipset issues, and well, it doesn’t look like you’ll be seeing an HTC X7510 Advantage on every street corner any time soon.But regardless, the HTC X7510 Advantage is one of my favorite devices that have crossed my desk so far this year. It’s very different, maybe even a bit odd, but it is very cool none the less.”

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HTC's X7510 Advantage is a new Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional smartphone that has a real focus on data. It is big and heavy, but with features like a 5" VGA display, and tri-band HSDPA data, it has loftier goals than just voice.
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India, one of the most populous countries in the world, is full of Nokia fans. This they have in common in Chine. But while the Chinese love their iPhone clones, India is a fan of Windows Mobile. Why else would HTC place second in India’s smartphone market? Can’t be the form factor. Anyway, Nokia’s market share is effectively 90 % and HTC, along with RIM, Sony Ericsson and Motorola have to share the remaining 10%

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HTC presents its latest entry-level smartphone, the P3400i.

It looks slick and stylish, runs on Windows Mobile 6 Professional OS, and features a variety of multimedia apps and services, such as media player, email client, mobile office, and even Windows Live Messenger, ...

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Alltel has corrected the U.S. carriers' mistake of giving a single color to their HTC Touch smartphone.

Previously available only in Grey, the Alltel Touch now comes in a Burgundy flavor ...

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If the Chinese calendar used tech instead of animals, this would definitely be the year of the touchscreen phone. But before you go off to celebrate, make sure you get the right one

HTC announced they plan to manufacture and sell 2 million Touch Diamonds by the end of the year.

It doesn't sound unrealistic, especially when you consider that previously the Touch smartphone has managed...

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A burgundy Alltel HTC Touch is now available. The burgundy Alltel HTC Touch joins the original gray colored cell phone, and makes Alltel the first carrier in the US to offer multiple shades of the handset. The phone is available immediately for $129.99 after rebates and with a 2 year contract.

The burgundy Alltel HTC Touch will have the exact same features as the original color: large touchscreen, 2 megapixel camera, Windows media player, microSD, EV-DO / CDMA, Stereo Bluetooth & Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional. Overall, the burgundy Alltel HTC Touch has a decent set of features for the price.

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The HTC Touch Diamond promises to be one of the most potent iPhone killers of 2008. Apple rivals are actually getting good at iPhone killing and the Touch Diamond is a well-crafted piece in the genre. The packaging of a cellphone, as you may well know, is a significant part of the mobile experience. The Touch Diamond comes in a unique pyramid-shaped package… did we dare say Apple-like?

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Eprice has posted several photos of the new HTC Touch Diamond unpacking.

Here you can see what is included in the package. Note that the smart leather case presented by phonemag is not included in the retail box.

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The HTC Touch Diamond gets unboxed by ePrice. The HTC Touch Diamond is expected to arrive in the next couple of months, so now you can know what’s inside the box waiting on you. The contents include: the handset, a charger, headset, USB cable, a manual or two, and the software.

The HTC Touch Diamond features include: a large 2.8″ touchscreen display in a thin 11.5mm (.4″) package. Tri-band GSM, dual-band WCDMA, WiFi & built-in GPS receiver are include as well. The HTC Touch Diamond also sports a 3.2 megapixel camera, 4GB internal storage, Bluetooth 2.0 & miniUSB port.

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Briefly: HTC held a press conference in Taiwan yesterday.

The spokesman announced that the company's new Diamond smartphone will be available there in June for $772 sans contract.

Note that the price may change depending on the region.

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eprice.com.tw has the chance to unbox a HTC Touch Diamond, and showing what’s included in the retail box. While phonemag has shown you how the clever leather case can clear away your fingerprint, the leather case is not included in the retail box and the staff is not sure if it will be available together with the HTC Touch Diamond. Check out the unboxing photos inside.

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A Sprint HTC Mogul firmware update is coming! The Sprint HTC Mogul firmware update is still in beta form, which basically means the real deal is just around the corner. The new update will include Sprint TV & Windows Mobile 6.1 - yes, they are actually giving all Mogul owners something to cheer about.

The Sprint HTC Mogul firmware update beta is floating around right now, but always use caution when updating to pre-release firmware. However, if you just can’t wait to get your hands on the new Sprint HTC Mogul firmware update - go for it. Good luck.

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HTC has just presented their new HTC Diamond in a press conference in Taiwan yesterday. Available in late June, a HTC Diamond without mobile subscription contract will cost about $772 USD. According to one of the staff, the price might be different in different region.

Other than the Diamond presentation, HTC CEO has even did a drop test to make sure his HTC Diamond is as hard as a diamond (watch video below). Event reports can be read from here (chinese) or here (chinese)

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The people at xda-developer did it again, you can now install the new HTC Diamond virtual keyboard in your Windows Mobile device.

The hacked software should work with most Windows Mobile pocket pc phone. Currently the keyboard support Italian and English, once you install it is default to Italian language, you can change it easily at the setting option.

You can download the hacks here, a new development on more languages support can be found here too.

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