T-Mobile will bring a second Android phone to its subscribers later this year but is the HTC Magic we’ve seen over the pond at Vodafone’s going to be it? According to Google’s demo of Mobile Gmail in offline mode, the HTC Magic will wear the T-Mobile logo. If that’s what Google has shown us it must be close to real right?

The photo here is blurry but the T-Mobile logo is from the USA. It has one less dot left to the T than everywhere else in the world. There’s no good reason for T-Mobile not to launch the HTC Magic as the G2. Unless they have something even better up their sleeve.

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Tags: G2, Google, HTC, HTC, Magic, Mobile News, T-Mobile, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Vodafone

The HTC Touch Diamond is a great phone that needs an impressive heir. And HTC prepared quite the follower. The HTC Touch Diamond2 will be available in Q2 for an undisclosed yet price. Like the Touch Pro2 the Touch Diamond2 will also be upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5 later this year.

The HTC Touch Diamond2 will get you a larger 3.2-inch high resolution widescreen VGA display, a new touch sensitive zoom bar and HTC TouchFlo 3D experience. HTC says that Diamond 2 will also get the company’s new Push Internet technology and the phone will be optimized for one hand use. You should also expect a better battery, a 5 megapixels auto focus camera, expandable memory, a gravity sensor and an ambient light sensor.

What would you choose? HTC Touch Pro2 or HTC Touch Diamond2?

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Tags: HTC, HTC, microsoft, Mobile News, Mobile Software, MWC, Touch Diamond2, Touch Pro2, Windows Mobile 6.5

HTC is ready for the Windows Mobile 6.5 future and it has announced new phones which will be able to run it when it gets out. These are the HTC Touch Pro2 and the HTC Touch Diamond2.

The HTC Touch Pro2 is the follower of the Touch Pro and it will be available early this summer. The phone will sport HTC’s TouchFLO 3D which will be integrated with Windows Mobile 6.1. The phone will feature a 3.6-inch widescreen VGA display and an impressive QWERTY keyboard. We’re also looking at better battery life, expendable memory, gravity, proximity and ambient light sensors.

The Touch Pro2 will come with HTC’s new Straight Talk technology which offers you an integrated email, voice and speakerphone experience. You will be able to move freely between email to single or multi-party conference calls at any given time. Straight Talk will offer you a high-fidelity voice and sound experience using features like asymmetric speakers and advanced noise reduction with full duplex acoustics.

We have no price for the new HTCs yet but we’re counting on carriers to reveal them soon.

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Tags: HTC, HTC, Mobile News, Mobile Software, MWC, Touch Diamond2, Touch Pro2, Windows Mobile

While other manufacturers are delaying Android handsets, HTC has quietly started to send its HTC Dream around the world. This time is Spain who’s going to get the first Android device. Telefonica will launch the handset as the Dream and have it slightly customized. The phone will cost anywhere from 0 to 199 Euro, depending on the plan that you choose and your current subscriber status. All that will probably happen soon although Telefonica hasn’t announced any official dates yet.

via Engadget Spanish

Tags: HTC, HTC, HTC Dream, Mobile News, Mobile Software, spain, Telefonica

We have been waiting for quite a while now for the Fennec and a primitive beta is up for grabs. For those of you that don’t know it, it’s the Mozilla mobile Firefox browser.

And the beta version is primitive because it’s still an early version of the mobile browser. One that is available for now only for HTC Touch Pro owners. This version will have no support for soft keyboards, automatic version updating or plugins. Other than that, Touch Pro owners should experience the Internet the Mozilla way on their phones now. Would you take Fennec for a spin?

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Tags: fennec, Firefox, HTC, HTC, Mobile browser, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Mozilla, Touch Pro

The Dream is going to Australia and Optus is waiting to deliver it to you. People say that the first ever Android device will be available in Australia is going to arrive on February 16, on plans starting at about $38 per month. The Dream is available in Europe already so it might be a good idea to spread it around the world before other makers start showing off their Android handsets.

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Tags: Android, Australia, Dream, Google, HTC, HTC, Mobile News, Optus, Portable Devices

Need a new geo-tagging feature for your HTC Touch? Well go ahead and try HTC Footprints out. The application has been spotted in a new beta ROM from NFSFAN that has Manila2D with Footprints. The ROM will be available for Alltel, Bell Mobility, Sprint and Verizon Wireless Touch handsets. If you love geo-tagging your pictures and you know a thing or two about cell phones and their software you might like playing with this ROM. Otherwise make sure you don’t mess anything up while tuning your handset!

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Tags: Alltel, Alltel, Bell Mobility, Footprints, HTC, HTC, Sprint, Sprint, Verizon, Verizon

T-Mobile customers interested in upgrading their phones can go today in any T-Mobile store and look for the two new handsets the company has launched. These are the new HTC Shadow and the Nokia 7510 flip phone.

T-Mobile seems to like being first at stuff so this HTC Shadow will be the first Windows Mobile handset ready to support HotSpot calls over WiFi.

Messaging

• Text messaging
• Instant messaging: Yahoo!®, MSN®, and AOL®

Fun

• 2.0 megapixel camera
• Video capture/playback
• MegaTones®, Wallpaper, HiFi Ringers®, & Games*
• Music player

Communication

• Wi-Fi and Mobile Calling
• Stereo Bluetooth® wireless technology
• Easily synch w/ Microsoft Outlook
• E-mail

Information

• Micro SD memory slot
• EDGE & Wi-Fi
• Real web browsing
• Voice dialing

The phone is available for $199 with a contract and after $100 instant savings and $50 mail-in rebate.

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Tags: HTC, HTC, Mobile News, Shadow, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

You asked for that iPAQ Data Messenger from HP? I guess you waited for it for quite a while now and you deserve getting it. The handset is available for pre-order in the UK and it costs $593. But isn’t it too late for HP to release it? We have lots of hot prospects out there. Motorola has new handsets prepared, HTC has a new line ready for 2009 and the Pre is waiting patiently. Not to mention that Windows Mobile 6.1 will be history soon and that Android is growing stronger every minute. And that presidentially-endorsed BlackBerry is becoming more and more famous. I haven’t forgotten Apple either, especially since the Cupertino-based company has just been awarded that precious multi-touch patent.

So, do you really want a Windows Mobile 6.1 HP iPAQ Data Messenger now?

Tags: Apple, Data Messenger, HP, HP, HTC, iPaq, Mobile News, Motorola, MWC, Palm, pre-order

Firefox Mobile is finally ready to enter the mobile market. We’ve been waiting for quite a while for Fennec and it seems that HTC Touch Pro owners will be able to load it up on their device next week. We’ve seen it run on a Nokia Internet Tablet before, and those guys at Mozilla surely know how to build a good browser. I’m a huge fan of Mozilla Firefox myself so I’d expect the mobile version to offer us the same great web browsing experience. We’re waiting for an official release as I am sure not only HTC Touch Pro owners need a new browser!

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Tags: fennec, HTC, HTC Touch Pro, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox

What better name to give your new generation Touch Cruise than Touch Cruise? That’s right folks, the Touch Cruise from HTC is the successor of the Touch Cruise. Probably the third version will carry the same name at some point. But let’s talk specs instead:

• Size: 102 x 53.5 x 14.5mm
• Weight: 103 grams
• Connectivity: WCDMA/HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
• Operating system: Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
• Display: 2.8-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with QVGA resolution
• Control panel: HTC TouchFLO™, 4-Way navigation wheel with Enter and HTC Footprints™ buttons
• Camera: 3.2 MP, with fixed focus
• Internal memory: 512 MB flash ROM, 256 MB RAM
• Expansion Slot: microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
• Bluetooth: 2.0 with EDR
• Wireless: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
• GPS: GPS/A-GPS
• Interface: HTC ExtUSB (mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one)
• Battery: 1100 mAh
• Talk time: GSM: up to 400 minutes
• Standby time: GSM: up to two weeks
• Chipset: Qualcomm® MSM7225™, 528 MHz

The HTC Footprints dedicated button will let you create and send original postcards featuring images, sound an notes. Neat, but not great! HTC will launch the Touch Cruise this spring and it will cost $500-$600 but we’re going to update the price later on when a carrier will pick it up!

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The pictures are blurry enough to indicate a leak, but are they the real HTC G2 planned to arrive at T-Mobile? There are no specs to accompany the leaked photos yet but we do know this G2 has no keyboard and there’s a 3.2 megapixel camera on the back. The phone should be available in May so in the mean time we’ll be looking for more details about it. And by May we might have other Android handsets ready to arrive.

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Tags: Android, G2, Google, HTC, HTC, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

In a world where size usually matters we keep asking for smaller and smaller cell phones. We want them lighter too and not that width either. And guess what? Those smart brains developing smaller cell phones will have to insert as many cool features inside those tiny cases or else we’re going to the competition.

And usually developers manage to include a great deal of new features in every phone, despite making them smaller. Unfortunately that also means that the batteries are going to be smaller and therefore pack less energy per charge than we want. Like the G1’s battery for example. It’s not the best battery HTC could come up with. As a matter of fact the G1 will die before the iPhone as the latter one does pack a better battery.

That’s why Seidio came up with the 2600mAh Innocell replacement battery which will get you twice the battery juice than the regular battery. And the Innocell is bigger. Which means your G1 will become bigger than you would want it to be. The picture above is more than explanatory. This Innocell is up for grabs and it costs just $55. Ready to get one?

Tags: Android, battery, G1, HTC, HTC, Innocell, Mobile News, Seidio, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

This is a 7-minutes video which apparently shows us the G2 phone which works on Android. Well is it the real thing? It has Google on the back, but is that enough to convince us? Is it what T-Mobile and HTC are preparing? The phone looks really good and Android looks even better. Everything works, or seems to be working as we’d like it too. The phone comes with a full touchscreen and in the video here is controlled with a stylus. There’s no QWERTY keyboard in this G2 version. Will this G2 be confirmed?

Tags: Android, Google, HTC, HTC, Mobile News, T-Mobile, T-Mobile, video

It looks like HTC will use NVIDIA’s Tegra application processor in some of its upcoming products. HTC might not be the only cell phone manufacturer to get it as Doug Freedman at the American Technology Research says that Tegra will bring NVIDIA about $100M for the first half of the year. That means that NVIDIA will sell millions of units of that Tegra processor. So what phones will use it? What should we expect from those NVIDIA HTC phones in terms of graphics? Better games? Better video?

Tags: graphics, HTC, HTC, Mobile News, nvidia, Portable Devices, Processor, Tegra

The Iolite is the next phone arriving from HTC and we already know the company has quite a few phones planned for the year. They’d better start sending them to carriers all over the world!

The Iolite will remind you of the Touch Cruise, but it’s a totally new phone. Here’s a list of its main features:

• Windows Mobile 6.1,
• TouchFlo 3D,
• 512MB ROM,
• 288MB RAM,
• HSDPA/HSUPA
• quad-band EDGE,
• Wifi, GPS,
• a 3.2 megapixel camera,
• 528Mhz Qualcomm CPU.

The phone should arrive soon but we have no official pricing details yet and there’s no word on the first carrier to pick it up.
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Just a few hours ago we discovered HTC’s lineup for the year and we already have rumors about the phones. T-Mobile is the first company to have launched an Android handset and the carrier has announced its intention of launching another one, the G2. Hence our interest in its association with HTC.

T-Mobile USA will get that HTC Rhodium and release it as the Wing II. It was time the Wing had a successor, don’t you think? And most importantly, the G2 seems to be the Sapphire. We can only enjoy pictures for now as we don’t have any leaked specs yet.

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Tags: Android, G2, Google, HTC, HTC, Mobile News, Rhodium, sapphire, T-Mobile, Wing, Wing II

Nokia is the leading cell phone manufacturer. 40% of the phones sold worldwide are Nokia cell phones and smartphones. That means 2 out of 5 phones out there are Nokia phones. But the Finnish manufacturer isn’t doing that good in the USA. The company designs phones for its customers and not for carriers. Nokia chose to please the end user and it didn’t respond to carrier wishes.

Nokia’s lost half its American market share in 2 years. Why? Because the phone companies won’t sell Nokia smartphones, which are designed for consumers and not carriers. With that in mind I wonder who will pick up the N97 in the U.S. And the N97 is one of the most promising phone out there. Looking forward for Nokia to release it. Until then Apple, BlackBerry and HTC will dominate the American market. And Palm is rising!

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So are you interested in what smartphones 2009 will bring? Well? Are ya? We have discovered HTC’s 2009 all over the web. Was the list leaked intentionally? What about the pictures there? Will HTC be mad? Follow the list below and you will spot quite a few new smartphones to arrive from various carriers. And there’s only one Android device so far, maybe that’s why they call it Hero. And after the list you can enjoy more photos. With 25 models two go we should have at least two new HTC handsets released every month.

Whitestone W

Magnet (Iolite II)

Jasper C (for Sprint)

Firestone

Beryl (Jade 2)

Twin (CDMA + GSM)

Willow W

Thoth (Athena 2)

Sapphire (VF)

Saphire 2.0 (TMO)

Sapphire 1.5 (DCM)

Memphis

Hero (Android Hero)

Tungsten W (Sprint)

Rhodium

Rhodium W (VZW)

Topaz

Topaz (AT&T)

Topaz C

Tungsten (TMO, TMUS)

Barium (AT&T)

Cedar W

Iolite

Maple (3G Excalibure)

Citrine

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Tags: 2009, HTC, HTC, Lineup, Mobile News

In case you were wondering how come we didn’t cover future Android phones shown at CES, the answer is simple: Google didn’t announce any other Android phones at CES. But that doesn’t mean we’re not going to have plenty of Android smartphones in 2009. We’ve seen quite a few manufacturers eager to make some. And now we can add to the Android-lovers list an Australian carrier too. Telstra is saying that an Android phone from HTC is headed its way and it will be launched in the second quarter of 2009. An executive is saying that the new phone will be better and more functional than the Pre. Notice how he doesn’t say it’s going to be better than the iPhone or the Storm? Is the Pre the new standard?

We have no clear details yet and this might be just a rumor which won’t be confirmed. The phone should run a version of Android with various HTC tweaks and it will come with a huge display. HTC Touch HD with Android? We’ve heard that combo rumored before. Hopefully we’ll find out more in the following months.

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Tags: Android, Australia, HTC, HTC, Mobile News, Palm, pre, telstra