HTC’s latest lower-end touchscreen smartphone, the HTC Touch Viva (Opal), is expected to bring once high-end features like a 2 megapixel camera and GPS down to a more affordable price-point. But, as the entry-level HTC Touch offering, the HTC Touch Viva doesn’t have the processing oomph to drive the beautiful TouchFLO 3D UI that we’ve…
Palm Treo Pro now available on Vodafone UK
Vodafone UK has added the latest Palm device, Treo Pro, to its business offering. The all-in-one Windows Mobile smartphone (GPS, WiFi, HSDPA and more) is available for business customers from free to 340.43 GBP depending on contract. If you’ve enjoyed using Palm’s earlier Windows Mobile powered phones, you’ll love the Treo Pro even more. Its…
HTC Touch Pro coming to Japan as KDDI au’s E30HT
HTC is set to rule the world, or at least the smartphone world. Apparently the Taiwanese smartphone maker will be bringing their super-cool Touch Pro smartphone to Japan during the spring of next year. KDDI au is the carrier partner, which will offer the device on its CDMA network as E30HT. Naturally Japanese customers require…
HTC Touch Diamond with US 3G support hits Best Buy
Getting your wares onto shelves at a big-box retailer like Best Buy is quite an achievement – it signals that you’ve arrived. Where exactly, we’re not sure, but getting some dedicated shelf space (even if it is only virtual shelf space at the moment) is definitely a huge step for our Windows Mobile smartphone ODM-turned-global-manufacturer.…
ASUS P552w smartphone ready to compete with HTC Touch
ASUS has recently unveiled its competitor to the original HTC Touch smartphone called P552w. The device competes with the original HTC Touch and not the Diamond because of the QVGA (240×320 pixels) screen, as opposed to VGA (480×640 pixels) which is used in the Diamond. The ASUS smartphone relies on the quite fast 624MHz CPU…
Alltel to get the HTC Touch Pro, too?
Every single big carrier seems to think about expanding its portfolio with one of the latest HTC smartphones. Alltel is not an exception hence they’ll be adding the HTC Touch Pro in the near future. What exactly is the “near future” we’re not sure at the moment. We do, however, find the image above as…
HTC Touch 3G hits the FCC
HTC’s on its way to US smartphone market glory with its new lineup of HTC Touch handsets. From the HTC Touch Diamond to the HTC Touch HD, the Taiwanese Windows Mobile smartphone maker is preparing to blitz our Yankee market with all manner of smartphones aimed at different price-points. The HTC Touch Viva is basically…
Palm Treo Pro coming to AT&T later this year?
Keep your fingers crossed. Following on the leaked AT&T product roadmap, Palm has just confirmed that they will be bringing the Palm Treo Pro to a US carrier. We’re going to go ahead and assume AT&T will be picking up the GSM handset, but pricing and availability information are still unclear. AT&T’s delays in getting…
Verizon Motorola Q9c gets Windows Mobile 6.1 update
Verizon customers still waiting on the Windows Mobile 6.1 update for their Motorola Q9c can finally get their aging smartphone up to speed with the rest fo the Windows Mobile 6.1-using world. Motorola has released the Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM for the Motorola Q9c on their software update support portal! The WM6.1 ROM update brings…
iPhone 3G vs HTC Touch HD – UI vs Hardware
It was inevitable. With a 3.8-inch WVGA display that completely dominates the entire front-face, and a form-factor that seems to at least have been inspired by the iPhone 3G, the HTC Touch HD was bound to be compared to the iPhone 3G. And, now we have side-by-side picture comparisons to see just how the iPhone…