T-Mobile prepping HTC Touch Dual to launch as the MDA Touch Plus

In another move that rivals HTC’s own penchant for naming/renaming their handsets with more model-names than we care to (or can hope to) ever remember, T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) has announced that they’ll be launching the HTC Touch Dual as the T-Mobile branded MDA Touch Plus. T-Mobile tends to rename their HTC-smartphones with the “MDA” moniker, so the renaming of the HTC Touch Dual isn’t all that surprising – it’s a pain to memorize all these model-names, but hey, at least T-Mobile kept the “Touch” branding.

As you’ll recall, the HTC Touch Dual (codename: Nike) is the keypad-toting, vertical-sliding sibling to the HTC Touch. T-Mobile has opted to go with the 16-key numeric keypad variant in favor of the semi-QWERTY, SureType-esque keyboard on the original HTC Touch Dual design reference – following in the footsteps of France’s Orange. And, as such, we’re expecting the T-Mobile MDA Touch Plus to rock that awesome TouchFLO interface, 400Mhz processor, 2.6 inch touchscreen display, 256MB ROM/128MB RAM, Bluetooth 2.0, and microSD card slot – all powered by Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional. We couldn’t find any reference to a WiFi connection in the T-Mobile MDA Touch Plus’s user-manual, so it looks like the WiFi goodness that the Japanese are enjoying won’t be making it’s way Stateside.

Update: Post edited. Of course the MDA Touch Plus is headed to the UK – that was a huge oversight. Apologies for getting your hopes up.

PDF user-manual (warning: 6.4MB)

[Via: MoDaCo]