HTC Touch Diamond2

HTC is following up on its ultra-sexy touchphone, the Touch Diamond, with the new Touch Diamond2, which seems quite worthy of the title of successor. This time around there's much more room for screen, with a huge 3.6-inch 480 x 800 LCD up front, and around back there's a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus. The other main addition is a "touch zoom bar" below the screen -- just like on big brother Touch Pro2 -- which we presume provides expected (and welcome) functionality. There's also the new version of TouchFLO 3D running on Windows Mobile, but under the hood there's the same old 528MHz processor, and the whole kit is actually a tad thicker a 0.54-inches. Still, memory is up to 512MB ROM and 288MB RAM, and if HTC keeps hoisting pixels and sexy on us at this rate we can hardly complain. This phone should hit major markets in Europe and Asia in "early Q2 2009," with more spots to follow later in the year.

HTC Touch Cruise 09

The HTC Touch Cruise, emphasizing GPS features with an application called "Footprint." Available by June,2009. its 3.2-megapixel camera, combining a picture, audio file, notes and GPS coordinates into a smart-looking package. Neat.

It's also adept at turn-by-turn navigation, and when you dock it in its car cradle, gives you navigational capability just like the big boys.

Features

• Qualcomm MSM7225, 528 MHz chipset
• WCDMA/HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps Connectivity
• 2.8-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with QVGA resolution display
• 512 MB flash ROM, 256 MB RAM internal memory
• microSD memory card (SD 2.0 compatible) expansion slots
• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS
• HTC TouchFLO, 4-Way navigation wheel with Enter and HTC Footprints buttons
• 3.2 MP, with fixed focus camera
• GPS/A-GPS
• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
• Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR
• Up to 400 minutes talktime (GSM)
• Up to two weeks standby (GSM)
• 102 x 53.5 x 14.5mm
• 103 grams

HTC Smart Phone with Dual Keypads

HTC is now introducing the S740, the latest smartphone with piano black finish and faceted back, resembling a diamond. It is thinner than the Touch Pro. This new model runs on Windows Mobile Standard operating system and its screen is not touch sensitive. It has a side-slider with full QWERTY and a 12-key numeric keypad when closed. The QWERTY is different this time, it is in four instead of five rows. The phone is a quad-band GSM and dual-band 900/2100 MHz UMTS/HSDPA 7.2 Mbps phone. Other features include 3.2MP camera without auto focus, aGPS, 2.4-inch QVGA display, microSD slot, 256MB of internal memory and 256MB RAM

Specifications:

• Networks: GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 2100/900
• OS: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard
• Screen: 2.4 inches, TFT, 65K colors,240 x 320 pixels,
• Memory: microSD (TransFlash, 256 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM, Qualcomm MSM7225, 528MHz processor
• Form factor: Side-slider
• Size: 116.3 x 43.4 x 16.3 mm
• Weight: 140 g
• Color: Black

Key Features:

• 3.2 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, video
• GPRS
• HSDPA, 7.2 MBPS
• Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
• Built-in GPS with A-GPS
• WLAN
• USB v2.0 (miniUSB)
• Pocket Office(Word, Excel, Outlook, PDF viewer)
• Java MIDP 2.0
• Voice memo
• MP3/AAC player
• Video/audio album
• Built-in handsfree

G1 Google Phone HTC

Even before Apple announced the iPhone, rumors had been swirling around the tech blogs about the infamous new mobile handset. While the phone is about to drop for the first time in the next few weeks, there are already rumors from Microsoft, Yahoo, and even Google about handsets of their own. Now I have seen screen shots and have been hearing rumors for months about the Google Phone but up until now there hasn’t been any word from Google concerning this nor any reliable source writing an article about the phone… yes, up until now.

The NY Times recently wrote an article titled Big Money in Little Screens where they state that Google isn’t just considering the cellphone market, but they have “gone so far as to build a prototype phone with its own software inside.” The source, according to the NY Times is a supposed insider who “has seen it.”

Typically I wouldn’t argue with the NY times, but if Google is so far into the market that they are already running and testing a prototype then why wouldn’t they announce it and build up some more hype? Maybe articles like this build more hype over time than an announcement a year or two before they are ready to show something? I guess we will just have to wait and see.

Demo tours HTC G1 Google Phone