T-Mobile's G1, aka the HTC Dream

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A few hours ahead of the official launch event in New York, T-Mobile has begun showing views of its G1 phone, the HTC Dream model that will be the first to sport Google's Android operating system. ...

Today HTC, T-Mobile and Google announced the first phone running the Android platform, the G1. The G1 has a touch screen that swivels out to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. The G1 is highly integrated with Google's services, and ...
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T-Mobile has set up a dedicated site that is live and will provide details of today's launch of the Android phone from HTC and T-Mobile.

T-Mobile is expected to launch the first Google Android phone on Tuesday at an event in New York. The mobile, already dubbed the “G-phone,” will run on Android, Google’s new software for mobile phones. It will be launched in New York tomorrow afternoon, and will be available in the US next month. It is anticipated that the phone will be available in British stores by November. “The phone, a somewhat chunky model called Dream built by HTC, is expected to cost about $200 from T-Mobile and go o

In New York City Tuesday, T-Mobile will unveil one of the most anticipated handsets of the year.

The T-Mobile G1, aka the HTC Dream, aka the Google phone, will be the first cell phone with the Google Android OS to go on sale. Exact features are still a bit sketchy, ...

The new phone powered by Google, called “G1″, is ready to showdown against at least two camps in the U.S market —the Apple iPhone and the RIM BlackBerry. It will be launched in New York tomorrow afternoon, and will be available in the US next month and then in British stores by November.

The phone, already dubbed the “G-phone” and was previously also referred to as Dream, built by HTC, is expected to cost about $200 from T-Mobile. Neither T-Mobile nor HTC has announced details about new phone, which run on Android, Google’s new software for mobile phones.

What lesson can be learned from this long-awaited smart phone launch? Can it be following the success of iPhone 3G launch? Or even creating another benchmark, break-through?

I just got an interesting insight from Sascha Segan of PCMag. “Google’s Android OS is really about ruling the world of feature phones, not the world of smart-phones,” he wrote.

“Most users don’t care about whether their phones are totally open or run high-end productivity apps,” Segan revealed. “Carriers want to be able to control how their networks are used; manufacturers want to lower their software ...

Can’t imagine the extra size of Touch HD when compare to HTC Touch Diamond? CNet Asia has got a nice side by side comparison photo on the 3 HTC Touch series. Obviously because of the WVGA resolution, the Touch HD is wider and bigger. Even that I am sure many of you can’t resist the beauty of higher resolution.

On the thickness comparison, the HTC Touch HD (115 x 62.8 x 12 mm ) about the same as the same as HTC Touch Diamond (102 x 51 x 11.5 mm). The Touch Pro is much thicker due to the additional QWERTY keyboard.

More about HTC Touch HD here

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Today FCC has approved the HTC "Jade", better known as the Touch 3G. Unfortunately (but ex...

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Starting today you can get the unlocked U.S. 3G-enabled version of the HTC Touch Diamond for $699.99 at Best Buy. They also say the device will be shipped within one business day. We don't know if that's true. It's a pity they don't have the white variant, though...

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Wondering which touchsreen phone to buy? Then read our roundup of some of the greatest touchscreen phones to come out this year

There must be plenty of Touch HD available in France. After the massive HTC Touch HD photo gallery, generation-phonehouse.fr has brought you the first HTC Touch HD hands on in video now! Check out the hardware walkthrough video, as well as some comparison between Touch HD, Omnia and iPhone.

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The TouchFLO 3D on the Touch HD is very smooth, the video also did a website display comparison between the Omnia, Touch HD and iPhone, showing you the difference with a 800 x 480 WVGA display screen (landscape mode). Simiar to Touch Diamond, the HTC Touch HD do not have a camera button at the side. Instead, there is a on screen camera button for you to capture the photo.

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The HTC Touch HD in a podcast ! The podcast might not be very structured , but we are very excited by the new HTC. The Touch HD is impressive, its screen quality is amazing. Enough word, enjoy the 11 minutes of video. One last precision, the soft (software) on the product is not finished yet, but is already working fine.

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Coolsmartphone claim they've got suggested pricing for the three upcoming HTC handsets. Here they are:

HTC Touch HD - £514.99; HTC Touch 3G - £319.99 (£349.99 with maps); HTC Touch Viva - £209.99

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Here is the first video demo (in French) of the upcoming HTC Touch HD. The guy told us nothing we don't know, so just enjoy the video.

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It looks like once again Alltel has decided to follow Sprint's path and get the same handset, this time the HTC Touch Pro.

No, the company didn't announce that, it's just a rumor, backed up with this photo of what appears to be an Alltel-branded Touch Pro. Word on the s...

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Je vous en parlais hier, l’ami Cédric à eu la chance de disposer d’un HTC Touch HD en pre-release pour pouvoir le tester et il en a fait une superbe review sur son blog. Pendant le live organisé par Cédric et l’équipe de Génération PhoneHouse, le communiqué officiel de HTC est tombé ! Le HTC Touch HD sera commercialisé au pric conseillé nu de 649€ ce qui me parait vraiment competitif compte tenu de l’originalité du produit. En effet l’écran est bluffant grace à sa résolution de 480 x 800 pixel

Since Steve Jobs launched the iPhone back in 2007, there are numerous so-called iPhone rivals appear, but those “unqualified” rivals, including the first generation of HTC Touch, failed to stop iPhone from getting phenomenal momentum around the world. Well, that isn’t the case for HTC Touch Pro and also recently launched HTC Touch HD, which leapfrog iPhone in features and specifications. Ok, enough talking, let’s have a close look at the HTC Touch Pro and see how good it is.

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Want to know the pricing of HTC Touch HD (also called HTC BlackStone)? Amazon Germany is giving you a clue on its pre-order page. It is now letting you pre-order it with a price of 620 euro, which is about 900 USD. There is no confirm release date of the HTC Touch HD but you should see it before end of 2008.

Key Touch HD product specifications:

• Size: 115 x 62.8 x 12 mm
• Weight: 146.4 grams/5.164 oz with battery
• Connectivity: Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• WCDMA / HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
• Software/Operating system: HTC TouchFLO 3D with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
• Display: 3.8 inch Wide Screen VGA screen (480 x 800 WVGA)
• Camera: 5.0 megapixel with auto focus - Second Camera: VGA
• Internal memory: 512 MB flash; 288 MB RAM
• Memory card: microSD memory card (SDHC capable)
• WLAN: 802.11b/g
• Bluetooth: 2.0 with EDR
• GPS: GPS/AGPS
• Interface: HTC ExtUSB (mini-USB and audio jack in one; USB 2.0 High-Speed)
• Battery: 1350 mAh
• Talk time: WCDMA: Up to 390 minutes / GSM: Up to 310 minutes
• Standby time: WCDMA: Up to 450 hours / GSM: Up to 390 hours
• Chipset: Qualcomm MSM7201a 528 MHz

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check out the HTC Touch HD photo gallery here

Photos have emerged of the HTC Touch HD next to the Apple iPhone. Both smartphones offer touchscreens with finger-friendly navigation, and are roughly the same size.
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HTC Touch HD Photo Review Against The iPhone

HTC Advantage X7500 Bluetooth Mobile Phone is a laptop style PDA packed with business and multimedia features. (...)

3gman wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt Sort and manage audio and video files, save pictures and store emails with the HTC Touch 3G’s 192MB user memory, expand with microSD and dictate with voice memo. For all your business and personal needs, the HTC Touch 3G mobile phone is … Read the rest of this great post here

Just to let you know, Telus and HTC have released a Windows Mobile 6.1 update for the Telus' S720, the CDMA variant of the Vox. The update adds support for EV-DO Rev. A and improves "overall device functionality and stability". That's all we kn...

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The new HTC Touch HD is now available for pre-order at Clove for an "in...

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Stop the presses, HTC has recently announced that the Touch Diamond is coming out in white. Finally, a phone that matches your trainers

The HTC mobile phone is very stylish and attractive phone, HTC P3700 is the Touch screen mobile phone. The operating system of the HTC Diamond is Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. This new version has undergone several small improvements ...

An attractive 3.5G phone with WiFi and GPS, the HTC Touch 3G offers and impressive number of features for such a lightweight smartphone.

The entry-level phone in HTC's Touch range, the HTC Touch Viva improves on many of the original Touch's features whilst retaining some of its flaws.

Ever wondered how a white HTC Touch Diamond would look? Well here it is, and it looks amazing, even though it's the same old Diamond under the hood. Expect it to become available in October.

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HTC's Touch Diamond will soon be available in white.
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According to theunwired, HTC plans to announce a color variant for the HTC Touch Diamond. To be available in snow white color, HTC will start selling the new color from October. Apart from the new color, HTC has announced few more smartphones for its HTC Touch line up this week.

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According to informed sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, T-Mobile and technology partner HTC will announce the first phone running the Android platform. Called the Dream, T-Mobile and HTC will publicly unveil the phone next week, though it ...
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HTC announced a partnership with KDDI, one of the Japanese telecommunications companies, to sell HTC handsets across Japan. The two companies, KDDI and Okinawa Cellular Phone, announced that they would be unveiling the first model, the E30HT smartphone (HTC Touch Pro), from September 28th to October 4th at CEATEC, Japan’s largest electronics products exhibition.

Commercial sales of the E30HT are slated for spring 2009. The model will support KDDI plans to deliver a broader, more innovative array of 3G products and services to its customers.

“Our goal is to provide customers the most advanced services all the time, to meet with wide variety of requirements, which demands quick and flexible mobile devices developments. KDDI is pleased to select HTC, who has established worldwide product delivery with proven speedy and innovative development capability. We believe that HTC Window Mobile devices will enrich the “au” product portfolio and will surely enable more detailed solutions for each enterprise customer, too.” said Takashi Tanaka, Associate Senior Vice President and Member of the Board, KDDI.

“Customers in Japan have become accustomed to having the most advanced mobile phones in the world. This focus and attention to ...

HTC today unveiled its latest HTC Touch lineup, the HTC Touch HD, an entertainment focused mobile handset with a large 3.8 inch wide-screen VGA display (WVGA), standard 3.5mm audio jack and 5 megapixel camera with autofocus. Its large 3.8 inch WVGA touchscreen offers users stunning clarity and vibrant colours, providing an unrivalled experience when watching movies, browsing the Internet or even scanning through photos taken with the 5 megapixel auto focus camera.

The stylish new device also features HTC’s TouchFLO 3D user interface to provide quick and intuitive access to the people, messages and content that are most important. A standard 3.5mm headphone jack has also been designed-in, allowing consumers to use high-performance headphones with the device for the best possible sound quality.

The HTC Touch HD will be available across major European carriers in Q4 2008 and be introduced in other global markets shortly following.

Key Touch HD product specifications:

• Size: 115 x 62.8 x 12 mm
• Weight: 146.4 grams/5.164 oz with battery
• Connectivity: Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• WCDMA / HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
• Software/Operating system: HTC TouchFLO 3D with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
• Display: 3.8 inch Wide Screen VGA screen (480 x 800 WVGA)
• Camera: 5.0 megapixel ...
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HTC Touch HD

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The poor HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro; the two smartphones just made their CTIA Fall 2008 debuts, and we've already moved onto the next big thing. But can you blame us? On Monday, HTC introduced its newest Touch model, the HTC Touch ...

HTC has launched two more Touch handsets into the wild -- the Touch 3G and the budget-oriented Touch Viva. They both rock great feature sets including GPS, HSDPA and big jolly touch-sensitive screens.

HTC's new Touch HD is the multimedia and Web handset HTC thinks you've been waiting for. It's certainly feature-packed, but can Windows Mobile appeal to consumers?

These are the official specs of the recently unveiled HTC Touch HD, taken from a page at HTC's website. The device will be announced tomorrow, but we still have no info on the release date and pricing, and we still want to see this thing running Android instead of WM 6.1.HTC Touch HD specificat...

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The HTC Touch 3G, an update of the original HTC Touch, has been officially released today. It offers an improved camera, 3G HSDPA data, and more RAM than the original.
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Today HTC took the wraps off of the HTC Viva, an entry-level smartphone known for the past few weeks on the rumor mill as the Opal.
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The newly announced HTC Touch Viva (former Opal) and HTC Touch 3G look almost alike, but belong to different categories. The first is a low-end-to-mid-range handset, while the other is a high-end smartphone with support for several high-speed data networks. HTC Touch Viva featu...

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Today HTC announced two more devices, the Touch 3G and Touch Viva. Both share two-dimensional versions of the HTC TouchFLO user interface on top of Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. Other features include quad-band GSM/EDGE radios, as well as GPS, ...
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Early this morning HTC accidentally published details on its upcoming Touch HD smartphone, which it has not decided to officially announce.
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A new, unannounced Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional device was seen on HTC's Web site recently. The Touch HD has a large 3.8-inch wide, WVGA (480 X 800 pixel) display and uses HTC's TouchFLO 3D user interface. It has quad-band ...
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The HTC Touch Diamond is now available for purchase from the Sprint website.
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HTC Touch Viva

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HTC today announced the Touch Viva, its latest entry-level touchscreen smartphone.

The Touch Viva blends an affordable touch phone with the benefits of HTC's TouchFLO finger-touch navigation. With Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, users can easily synchronize their calendar, contacts, emails and more with their personal computer.

Consumers can flip through album artwork, pictures and videos as if they were picture cards in the palm of the hand. They can visit websites, enjoy YouTube videos and browse Google Maps.

With a built in RSS feed, readers can get latest news or send and receive email with Microsoft Office documents.

"The HTC Touch Viva embodies our commitment to build a family of touch phones that are powerful and stylish but also offer something to everyone," said Peter ...

HTC Touch 3G

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HTC today introduced the Touch 3G, its latest handset to use TouchFLO finger-touch navigation to quickly access to people, messages and information.

Integrated with Windows Mobile 6.1, the Touch 3G has HTC's TouchFLO user interface, allowing consumers to control the menu through finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, launching media and browsing the web by zooming and panning websites with one-hand.

The HTC Touch 3G runs on high-speed 3G networks with download speeds up to 18 times faster than standard 3G.

They can search for and watch streaming video from YouTube, get directions and mapping using Google Maps for mobile and stay updated on the latest news with the integrated RSS reader.

"The HTC Touch 3G embodies our commitment to build a family of touch ...

HTC Touch HD

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HTC today unveiled the Touch HD, an entertainment focused handset with a widescreen VGA display and a 5.0-megapixel camera.

The Touch HD has a large 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen for clear and vibrant colors when watching movies or browsing the Internet.

It features HTC's TouchFLO 3D user interface for quick access to people, messages and content. The built-in 5.0-megapixel camera and camcorder captures high-quality stills and videos. A standard 3.5mm headphone jack allows consumers to use high-performance headphones.

The Touch HD renders websites quickly with download speeds up to 18 times faster than standard 3G.

"The Touch HD delivers that uncompromising multimedia and Internet experience," said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corporation. "The internet is so much more than just email and our customers expect to ...

HTC’s Touch Pro is one of the slim, stylish touch-screen Windows Mobile smartphones.Its just under 19 mm thick , weigh 165 gram , a phone that means business – which is no coincidence, since that’s exactly what it’s about. And at least the pay-off from such a weighty and portly phone is that it feels very well built.

HTC will publish its 3D touch smartphone Touch Diamond and Touch Pro the USA through Sprint this month.

HTC made a great leap forward in innovation with its touch-screen 3D interface called TouchFLO touch 3D. TouchFLO 3D provides an astonishing intuitive to zip through tasks such as email, calendar appointments or calls with a single touch.

The adoption of 2.8-inch touch screen and VGA 3.2M built-in camera, the Diamond Touch provides a totally new Internet experience using mobile broadband as a speed with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps HSUPA and connectivity without thread.

Other features included Mobile OS 6.1, 2.0 with EDR Bluetooth, GPS function and much more. The Diamond Touch will be available on September 14th for 249.99 (USD) with a two-year contract.

HTC is also underway to deploy its next generation telephone “Touch Pro” to the USA, which will be available on October 19th for 299.99 (USD) with a two-year contract.

Ensure as broadband speeds with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and a wireless connectivity, Touch Pro adopts a 2.8-inch display with a row of five Qwerty keyboard, built-in TV-out and integrated 3.2M the device.

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HTC 3D Touch Smartphone Coming Via Sprint

HTC Touch Pro at CTIA Fall 2008

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CTIA Fall 2008 has finally come to a close. Though it was a relatively small show in comparison to its Spring counterpart, we still heard quite a number of announcements about the latest cell phones and mobile applications. We'...