The HTC Touch Pro2 and the HTC Snap are among the first smartphones out there that will be upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.5. We have been aware of all this for a few months but it’s only now that we are able to confirm it. Both phones are upgradeable, at least in theory, to Windows Mobile 6.5. However, depending on where you purchased your Touch Pro2 or Snap phone from, you might not be able to use the upgrade yet. Minor things like carrier branding or phone locking could prevent you from getting the much needed upgrade right now. If that happens then go ahead and complain to customer service about it. You should definitely be able to enjoy Windows Mobile 6.5 no matter what carrier sold you the Touch Pro2 or the Snap. After all, that’s why you purchased these phones in the first place, right?

via Smartphone Thoughts

Tags: HTC, HTC, Mobile News, Portable Devices, SNAP, Touch Pro2, upgrade, Windows Mobile 6.5

Three popular handsets are now available over at Vodafone UK. The three phones are the Sony Ericsson Satio, LG GM750 and the HTC Tattoo. The best part of it is that you get the phones free if you sign up for a 2 year contract with varying monthly rates. The monthly rates for the three handsets are as follows:

• Sony Ericsson Satio (£35)
• LG GM750 (£25)
• HTC Tattoo (£25)

And if you think that is already a good deal, if you buy online you will receive a whopping 300 minutes per month extra, game on Vodafone. This is one deal you should not pass up so check it out!

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Tags: Cell Phones, handsets, HTC, HTC, LG, Mobile News, Satio, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, three phones, Vodafone, Vodafone, vodafone uk

Are you looking for an unlocked HTC HD2 already? The phone will be out in Europe in the following months. First O2 will launch it in the UK this month while Vodafone will launch it in Spain in December. U.S. customers are only going to get it at some point in the first quarter of the next year but that doesn’t mean you have to be waiting that long to get it.

The HD2 will be also available off contract starting with November 11. The unlocked phone will sell for around $740 in the U.K. which is not a bad price considering what the HD2 can do.

Yes, you can purchase the phone and use it in the USA but you will have to settle for EDGE connectivity only. The unlocked HD2 will not be able to offer 3G connectivity if you decide to use it in the USA. Therefore, if you want a 3G HTC HD2 you’ll have to wait until 2010 to purchase one.

via Clove

Tags: hd2, HTC, HTC, O2, Other Brands, usa, Vodafone, Vodafone

Take a gander at this new Windows Phone ad that has been going around. Yes, it is disturbing to see gigantic humanoid versions of apps in this poor guy’s home, and I’m certain that if I saw those, I would run from my home screaming. The last thing I would be doing is holding up my Windows enabled Mobile phone and have them jubilantly come with me.

Yes, it is disturbing and confusing. Many have pointed out that there really isn’t a Windows phone, but a phone that supports Windows. The fact that it has the HTC Pure label on it is adding a little more confusion to the mix.

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Tags: Cell Phones, HTC, htc pure, microsoft, Mobile Software, windows, Windows 7, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile 6.5, windows phone

The phone so many Android lovers were waiting for, the HTC Hero, is now officially available for purchase from Sprint stores. The carrier has finally launched its first Android smartphones and we’re waiting for more to follow. The Hero is available for $179 after a $100 mail-in rebate and with a new 2-year contract. The phone is also available from Best Buy stores and in case you’re thinking about paying the full price for it, that’s going to cost you around $479. What do you say? Ready to get the Hero now?

via Sprint

Tags: Android, best buy, Hero, HTC, HTC, Sprint, Sprint

By this time you should already know that O2 is the carrier ready to bring HTC’s latest Windows Mobile phone to the UK. The phone has been officially announced and it’s probably going to be HTC’s flagship Windows Mobile 6.5 for a while. With specs like a Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor and a 4.3-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen display the HD2 is definitely a phone worth buying.

According to O2’ customer support, the phone will be available in O2 stores starting with October 19. The price hasn’t been specified at this point so we’ll be back with more details once O2 is ready to launch the phone.

U.S. customers, get ready to wait some more for the HD2! The phone will be available in the USA only in the first quarter of 2010.

via Mirror

Tags: hd2, HTC, HTC, Mobile News, O2, Other Brands, UK, usa

If you’re an anxious Sprint customer waiting for the HTC Hero to finally drop and a Best Buy Reward Zone members hold onto your pants because the handset is available for you today.

That’s right, Best Buy has announced today that members of their Reward Zone program will be able the buy the handset early for $179.99 with a 2-year contract.

As for everyone else? Well, you’re still stuck waiting until October 11th.

via engadget

Tags: best buy, Cell Phones, early access, HTC, htc hero, members, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Reward Zone, Sprint

If you’re on Sprint and really looking to secure yourself an HTC Hero when it is made available, rumors are surfacing that you are now able to pre-order it.

Of course, you’re not going to be able to just hop on their website and slap down a pre-order instead you’re going to have to call up Sprint’s telesales and haggle with them until the let you pre-order it.

Either way, the chances of the HTC Hero completely selling out are slim so you shouldn’t have a problem if you don’t want to deal with Sprint’s customer service.

via engadget

Tags: Cell Phones, HTC, htc hero, Mobile News, Mobile Software, pre-order, rumor, Sprint, Sprint, telesales

HTC is one of my favorite cell phone makers right now. Their Android phones pop one after the other and they are definitely innovators when it comes to making Android smartphones and not only that you’d expect them to be pulling in some serious cash from this whole Android endeavor, right? Well it looks like they don’t bring in that much cash at all.

HTC has announced its Q3 financial results and it looks like they lost 18% compared to the same period of last year; that’s $179 million compared to $217 million last year. Let’s forget for a second that the worldwide financial crisis is affecting the way we buy stuff, cell phones included, and remember the fact that HTC is “the largest maker of phones using Microsoft Corp.’s operating system by shipments.” Is Windows Mobile bad for HTC? Should they make the definitive switch to Android?

via WSJ

Tags: Android, HTC, HTC, microsoft, Mobile News, Portable Devices, Report Financial, Windows Mobile

If you’re a fan of touchscreens, Google’s Android and guitars then boy does T-Mobile have a device for you — A partnership between T-Mobile and Fender was recently made known that will bring the myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition to the carrier later this year.

Not much has changed hardware wise but the Fender Limited Edition adds a 3.5mm headphone jack along with woodgrain finish. In addition to that you will be given a 16GB microSD card with some preloaded music.

No word on price yet but we’ll let you know as soon as we find out.

via Press

Tags: 3.5mm, Cell Phones, fender, Google, HTC, limited edition, Mobile News, Mobile Software, MyTouch 3G, Portable Devices, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

Verizon Wireless has a brand new phone displayed on its website. The HTC Imagio will be available for $199.99 after a $100 online discount and with a 2-year contract. The good news is that this handset comes with Windows Mobile 6.5 on board and Verizon is not afraid to show that. After all today is the day when Windows Mobile 6.5 got official and Microsoft partners are proud to announce all these phones capable of running its latest mobile OS.

The Imagio will offer you a 3.6-inch touchscreen WVGA display, a 5-megapixel camera, HTC’s TouchFLO 3D UI and a few popular Verizon services like: VZ Navigator, Visual Voice Mail and V CAST Mobile TV. Any takers?

via Verizon

Tags: HTC, HTC, Imagio, microsoft, microsoft, Mobile News, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, Windows Mobile 6.5

In case you don’t know, Verizon and Google reached an important agreement today. Ignoring Microsoft’s special day, the two giants said that they will work together to bring the Android experience to Verizon subscribers soon.

The first two phones coming to Verizon stores are the Motorola Droid, rumored to be available on October 30 and HTC’s Hero which will hit the streets sometime in November. We don’t have the precise details yet but everything is confirmed. Check out Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon’s CEO Lowell McAdam holding Verizon branded Android phones in the picture above. What more of a confirmation do we need?

via Verizon

Tags: Android, Droid, Google, Google, Hero, HTC, HTC, Motorola, Motorola, Verizon, Verizon

It’s finally happened! The HD2 or Leo is now an official HTC phone. It has been confirmed by both Microsoft and, more importantly by HTC.

The HD2 is a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone which will bring you a confirmed 4.3-inch capacitive WVGA touchscreen display, a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, a 5-megapixel camera, WiFi, Microsoft Exchange, proximity and light sensors and a Twitter application, HTC Peep.

The phone will be available in France from Orange this month with other European markets to follow soon. U.S. customers will see the HD2 only early next year so you’ll have to wait a while to get it. Official pricing for the HD2 hasn’t been announced yet. How much would you pay for it?

via HTC

Tags: france, hd2, HTC, HTC, Leo, Orange, Windows Mobile 6.5

About a month ago we told you that the HTC Tilt 2 would be made available for AT&T on October 6th. Well, it seems that BGR dug up some dirt on the phone and have found out that it will in fact be shipping on October 8th.

So, those of you who are looking to access that newly launched Windows 6.5 Marketplace you now have another option to choose from. Of course you’re going to have to wait until Q3 when AT&T pushes out that free Windows Mobile 6.1 - 6.5 update.

Tags: At&T, At&T, Cell Phones, HTC, htc tilt 2, marketplace, microsoft, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Windows Mobile 6.5

Cellular South picked the HTC Hero a few weeks ago, and today they started accepting pre-orders for the smartphone. And the best part is that there is a “good” deal to go with it, related to the monthly plans.

At $80 per month you get the best package - Smartphone Unlimited Plan - which includes everything unlimited such as talk, text, web and email. In case you want to add another phone to this plan, it only costs half the price of the original, and for $40 you get the same. The HTC Hero can be pre-ordered online or at Cellular South stores for $100 after rebate.

Tags: Cell Phones, cellular south, HTC, htc hero

AT&T has decided to come clean and officially launch the HTC Tilt 2 and the HTC Pure. The first Windows Mobile 6.5 phones available from AT&T will sell for $299 and $149.99 as long as you get a new two-year contract. As you already know, the HTC Pure has been available in AT&T stores since yesterday while the Tilt 2 will only arrive in the following weeks. Don’t hurry to grab the Pure yet! Remember that tomorrow Windows Mobile 6.5 will be officially unveiled and we’re going to see around 30 phones capable to run Microsoft’s new OS soon.

via AT&T

Tags: At&T, HTC, HTC, Pure, Tilt 2, Windows Mobile 6.5

Rumors of the HTC Touch HD2 have been floating around for some time now but they have been more focused on the software side of things and not what we can expect to see under the hood.

Today, further rumors have surfaced that give us a look at the specs which are a 1Ghz Snapdragon processor, 7.2Mbps HSPA, a 4.3-inch WVGA touchscreen, FM radio, 5MP camera, Bluetooth 2.1, and a 3.5mm audio out jack.

Unfortunately, there aren’t any solid dates for when we will be seeing the HTC Touch HD2 but rumor has it we will be seeing the device hit T-Mobile UK at some point in the non-too-distant future.

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Tags: HTC, HTC, SnapDragon, T-Mobile UK, touch hd2, Windows Mobile 6.5

Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s App Store wasn’t schedule to go live until tomorrow October 6th but it seems that the guys over at Redmond have jumped the gun launching the Marketplace today, one day early.

Make note that the only phone currently available that is able to access the Marketplace is the HTC manufactured AT&T Pure which runs Windows Mobile 6.5. Everything else, you’re going to have to wait until the coming weeks where more Windows Mobile 6.5 powered phones are expected to be released.

via engadget

Tags: At&T, at&t pure, Cell Phones, HTC, marketplace, microsoft, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Windows Mobile 6.5

We’re not surprised to see stuff leaked from Best Buy and this time we have some details about the company’s upcoming holiday releases. And there are quite a few phones there ready to capture your imagination, but also a netbook we’ve seen in the news lately:

• Nokia Booklet netbook - October 25th launch (AT&T activation)
• Sprint HTC Hero - October 11th
• Sprint Palm Pixi - launch date TBD
• Verizon Storm II - launch date TBD
• Verizon Android device - launch date TBD
• T-Mobile CLIQ - launch date TBD

We’re particularly interested in that “new technology which doesn’t exist today” mentioned in the leaked documents and we definitely want to hear more about those BlackBerry and multiple Android phones which will also be available from Best Buy soon. We’ll be back with official prices and release dates so in the mean time you have plenty of time to decide what phone to ask from Santa this Christmas!

via BGR

Tags: Android, best buy, Booklet 3G, Cliq, Guide, Hero, Holiday, HTC, HTC, Mobile News, Motorola, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Pixi, Research In Motion, Sprint, Sprint, Storm 2, T-Mobile, Verizon, Verizon

What do you know folks, it looks like AT&T has quietly decided to start selling the Pure with a couple of days to go before Windows Mobile 6.5 goes official. In case you forgot the Pure is HTC’s Touch Diamond2, one of the first phones announced to run Microsoft’s latest mobile OS. Notice the date on the phone in the picture here and feel free to run to your closest AT&T store to get it. Of course, you could always reconsider and wait for a different Windows Mobile 6.5 to arrive. I hear there are 30 phones ready to run the OS by the end of the year?

via Engadget

Tags: At&T, At&T, HTC, HTC, microsoft, Pure, Windows Mobile 6.5