Living in the US? Wanna HTC Touch Dual smartphone? Then pop down to your local Best Buy pronto like as they have just started selling an unlocked version of the Touch Dual for US$550. For those of you who have lived under a rock for a while, here’s the low-down on the Touch Dual

* utilises TouchFlo technology to allow finger-touch scrolling, panning and image zooming
* slider 20 key keypad
* HSDPA, 3G and GPRS/EDGE/GSM connectivity
* Qualcomm MSM7200 400MHz processor
* Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro OS
* Direct Push Outlook emails
* 2 MP camera for pics and vid, plus a second cam for video calls
* 107 x 55 x 15.8 mm
* 120g
* Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity
* microSD expansion slot
* up to 250 hours standby and 3 hours talk time - UMTS
* up to 180 hours standby and 5 hours talk time - GSM

At US$550 it may not be a bargain, but an unlocked smartphone at that price seems like a good deal to us. So if you’re keen rush out/browse to Best Buy and secure one of these suckers.

Source: HTC

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Verizon have just launched the XV6900 just in time for CTIA Wireless 2008 and will be available from their stores and website in April. The XV6900 is the HTC Touch rebranded for Verizon and whilst sporting a new white face contains the usual bells and whistles available on the Touch as follows

* Windows Mobile 6 Pro, Outlook Mobile, Internet Explorer Mobile
* AIM, MSN and Yahoo messenger services
* One touch access as per the HTC Touchflo
* Speakerphone
* Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity
* microSD slot for up to an extra 8 GB
* 2MP camera for stills and video
* 2.8 inch touch screen

This little sucker will set you back US$350 with a $50 rebate plus the usual two year plan. If you’re still keen check out the video review we dug up a while ago of the HTC Touch.

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Over at BGR they’re eagerly anticipating the launch of the Verizon SMT5800 smartphone on the 7th of this month. The SMT5800, aka HTC Vox (S710), sports an external number pad with a slider QWERTY underneath. For those of us traditionalists, we’ll have to wait until the 21st to see it on real store shelves.

Here are a few bits and pieces about the unit

* Windows Mobile 6 Standard
* 128 MB ROM
* 64 MB RAM
* microSD slot
* Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity
* 101.5 x 50 x 18.6 mm
* 140 g
* 2.4 inch display

This little sucker will set you back US$315 with a two year plan whilst an unshackled version will remove US$470 from your wallet - however BGR were a little unsure if this was average Joe pricing or pricing for corporate Charlie.

Source: BGR

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After a long delay Verizon have finally pulled finger and have launched the HTC built smartphone, the XV6800. US$349 (with $100 online and $50 mail-in rebate) will get you this sucker along with the obligatory two year contract. If you’re still keen here are the specs for this baby

* Windows Mobile 6 OS
* Slide-out QWERTY keypad
* Wi-fi (802.11 b/g) and bluetooth connectivity
* 2.0 MP camera
* 2.8 inch, 240×320 touch sensitive LCD display
* MicroSD memory slot for up to 8 GB
* 4.3 x 2.3 x 0.7 inch
* 5.8 oz
* 324 minutes talk-time or 340 hours standby

So was the wait worth it? Not really, despite all the discounts it’s still $350 for some pretty standard stuff, but I do prefer the slide-out keypads, so may be it’s a winner. Let me know what you think.

Source: Verizon

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T-Mobile have launched their latest mobile phone on the world, well at least the US - it’s the HTC designed Shadow. For US$150 and a $20 a month contract you can get your mits on one of these suckers and boy are they sexy looking too.

The Shadow sports MS Windows Mobile 6, a 2.6 inch display, a 2MP camera, wi-fi and bluetooth connectivity, a speakerphone and a MicroSD slot for memory expansion. It has had a mixed reaction with CruchGear giving it a thumbs up whilst PC World are not quite so praising in their review.

However priced at $150 I think you’re getting quite a bargain with the Shadow, it certainly has everything you’d expect these days from a phone at that price and looks pretty good too.

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Specs for the HTC Shift have just been amended and the hard drive capacity has increased to a whopping 60 GB. That’s a pretty impressive stat for any UMPC and here’s a list of other bells and whistles that this sucker boasts

* An Intel Stealy Processor 800 MHz
* Windows Vista Business
* 1 GB of memory
* 1.8 inch 40 or 60 GB HDD
* 207 x 129 x 25 mm
* 800g (with battery)
* 7 inch 800×480 res display
* Slide out QWERTY keyboard

On the downside Vista operating time is only two hours on full battery and as I like to consider a device mobile when it can survive away from a power point for more than three hours, this seems like a bad limitation on what otherwise looks like a very well specced device. The unit seems to be selling for around US$1,450 which is not a bad price either for a well specced UMPC and it should sell like the proverbial hot cakes. However with that battery life, I’m just not interested, anyone else out there gonna take the plunge?

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With no official announcement from HTC yet there seems to be plenty of rumours flying around about their latest product, the Kaiser or The Tilt as it’ll be known throughout AT&T stores in the US. I decided to track down all the specs (rumoured or confirmed) that I could find on this little sucker. The results are as follows

Slide and tilt QWERTY keyboard
Touch screen functionality a la HTC Touch
240 x 320 res display
3 Mp camera, a non-camera version will also be available as well as a dual-cam setup
Connectivity - 3G, GPRS, EDGE, video calls and WiFi
The 400 MHz chip along with 128 MB of RAM and 256 MB of ROM could run Windows Mobile 6
5 hours battery powered talk time

The Tilt will be hitting AT&T stores around the end of August/start of September with a rumoured price tag of $300.

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