HTC announces updated HTC Advantage

Here’s one for the HTC Advantage fans. In case you were eyeing the Windows Mobile superphone, maybe you should wait just a bit more, or in case you already have one, well, more luck next time.

At the Mobile World Congress, HTC has unveiled the updated version of its bad-ass smartphone that now includes:

• More storage – 16GB instead of 8GB
• Different (personally I think worse) haptic feedback keyboard
• Opera Mobile 9
• Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps
• An updated version of VueFLO using a G-sensor that recognises the screen orientation
• HTC TouchFLO software for easier finger navigation
• HTC Home today screen which provides “one-touch access to emails, text messages, missed calls, calendar appointments and contacts, as well as current weather conditions and forecasts for hundreds of cities around the world.”

Everything else is pretty much the same and it’s kinda fair to expect HTC will update the software of the existing Advantage through the future firmware updates. In the meantime, you’ll have to wait for March this year, when HTC said it will start selling the new Advantage in select countries across Europe.