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Orange has announced that it will be the exclusive seller of the new HTC Touch HD device in the UK. The new deal means that Orange will join the other major mobile operators, who all have exclusive high-end devices on their books.

Orange has also stated that customers will have to pay for the device, even on its £40 a month tariffs. The HTC Touch HD is expected to ship in mid November and will directly rival the other four mobile operator’s exclusive devices.

T-Mobile has the first android OS phone, the HTC Google G1 as its exclusive device. Vodafone has the Blackberry Storm, RIM’s first touchscreen device. 3 will be selling the Nokia N95 – Comes With Music enabled phone to their customers and of course O2 has the exclusive rights to the hugely popular iPhone 3G, which the other devices are trying to catch.

HTC has released a successor to one of its first touch screen phones the HTC Touch. The new device, the HTC Touch 3G looks a lot like the previous device, but has subtle differences and sleeker appearance. The HTC Touch 3G has also had a bit of colour injected into it and is available in black, blue, brown and gold; colours will probably depend on the network you choose.

As with the rest of HTC’s touch series, the Touch 3G is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, which is capable of displaying and sending emails, writing and editing Word documents and browsing the internet effortlessly.

The Touch 3G also features a 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen, HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0 and a 3.2 megapixel camera. Navigating through the phone is easy with HTC’s superb TouchFLO user interface and your images and files can be stored on a microSD card via the card slot.

A built in multimedia player is also onboard, but the downside is that there is no 3.5mm headphone socket. Instead there is a HTC ExtUSB connection that is used charging/synchronisation and listening to audio and video files.

The HTC Touch 3G is bound to be popular with people who want a functional and powerful Smartphone. The Touch 3G is expected to be out sometime this month, on a range of networks; price to be confirmed.

The wait is over, T-Mobile and Google have announced the long awaited Android Smartphone this week. The phone, which is simply called the G1 is the first device to use the open source Android operating system and bids to become the must have Smartphone.

The G1 will be exclusive to T-Mobile and is manufactured by Smartphone maker HTC. The G1 is quad-band and features a 3.2 inch touch sensitive screen, Wi-Fi and 3G connections, Bluetooth and a microSD card slot for expandable memory. The device also features a full QWERTY keyboard and trackball for alternative navigation through the phone and will have direct access to Android Market, so you can download new applications and games.

The T-Mobile G1 will synchronise with Google apps like Gmail and Google Calendar, but won’t include desktop synchronisation software; but expect the third party developers to make one soon. The device will support PDF, Word and Excel files and comes with an MP3 player to listen to music on the go.

The device also includes a 3 megapixel camera with autofocus for capturing those spontaneous pictures, and has access to GPS navigation and Google Maps.

The G1 will be released in the US first; on the 22nd October and priced at $179 on selected tariffs. UK is expected to follow in November, with the rest of Europe expecting a first quarter 2009 release. There is no word on UK and Europe prices yet.

The new mobile phone operating system Google Android will get its first outing next week. Reports say that the new Android OS will be showcased at a press conference in New York on September the 23rd.

It is widely believed that the first phone to run Google Android will be manufactured by Smartphone maker HTC and feature a touchscreen display and slide out QWERTY keyboard. The showcase will be in collaboration with T-Mobile, who will be the first network operator to offer the device.

Google Android is set to take on the likes of Windows Mobile, Apple and Symbian as a mobile phone operating system. The Android OS is also open-source, meaning that anyone can write applications for it.

Google is hoping that the Android system will encourage people to browse the internet more often from their mobile phone. The rumoured HTC Dream device will rival the iPhone, which is currently Google’s biggest source of mobile traffic.

HTC yesterday announced a new touch device for their Smartphone range called the Touch HD. Sporting the now familiar sleek black exterior of new HTC devices; the Touch HD features a huge 3.8 inch WVGA touchscreen with a resolution of up to 480×800 pixels.

The Touch HD has all the features that you would expect from a HTC Smartphone including, Wi-Fi and HSPDA connectivity, Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, GPS and A-GPS and Google Maps. The Touch HD also features an impressive 5 megapixel camera for capturing photos and videos.

HTC’s TouchFLO 3D user interface is also included to navigate through the device, as well as a media player capable of playing various audio and video files. A 3.5mm headphone sockets is also featured, making the Touch HD compatible with a wide range of headphones.

As stated above the operating system is Windows Mobile 6.1, which will keep you up to date with your emails and let you browse the internet effortlessly, and the Touch HD has a microSD card slot to store your data and media files.

HTC say the Touch HD will be released in Q4 of 2008; price and availability are to be confirmed.

HTC have released details of its upcoming new Smartphone the S740. Built to be the successor to the S730, the new S740 has been styled to look like the Touch Diamond and Touch pro but has two keypads; a front mounted numerical pad (as on standard mobiles) and a slide out QWERTY keyboard like the HTC Touch Pro.

The S740 features a 2.4 inch display, which unlike the Touch Pro and Touch Diamond is non-touchscreen. As well as the styling, other features have been lifted straight from the Touch Diamond including a 3.2 megapixel camera, HSDPA and Wi-Fi connections, Bluetooth and GPS/A-GPS.

Also included in the HTC S740 is an internal memory of 256Mb and a microSD card slot. The S740 is slightly bigger and heavier compared to the Touch Diamond, but with the integration of that QWERTY keyboard you can forgive a few extra grams.

HTC say the S740 will be shipped in September; prices are to be announced.

HTC’s new Smartphone device, the Touch Pro has similar specifications to the hugely popular Touch Diamond, but boasts a full QWERTY slider keyboard tucked away underneath. The HTC Touch Pro features a 2.8 inch touch sensitive screen, TouchFlo 3D navigation system and is 3G, HSDPA and Wi-Fi enabled.

Like the Touch Diamond, the Touch Pro has the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system controlling it, for easy access to the internet, emails and applications and a 3.2 megapixel camera for capturing photos on the move. The Touch Pro is 6mm thicker and 50 grams heavier than the Touch Diamond, but it’s a small price to pay for a practical and responsive QWERTY keyboard.

The Touch Pro also features Bluetooth and USB connections, GPS and A-GPS, TV out, Multimedia player, 4GB of internal storage and a front mounted VGA camera for video calling. The Only question now is which one do you want, the Touch Diamond or Touch Pro?

The HTC Touch Pro will be available in the next couple of months; contracts and price are to be announced soon.

The HTC Touch Diamond is already making waves in the Smartphone market, as it goes head to head with the likes of the iPhone and the Samsung F480. Undoubtedly one of the sexiest looking phones to hit the market in recent years, the HTC Touch Diamond has a 2.8 inch LCD touchscreen with VGA resolution ensuring that the picture is nice and crisp.

This powerhouse of a phone features the latest version of Windows Mobile (6.1 Professional), which makes it easy to write documents, send and receive emails and connect to the internet on the go. The Touch Diamond also features WiFi and HSDPA connectivity for internet speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps.

The TouchFLO 3D software allows the user to navigate through the applications, pictures, music and internet using the touchscreen and is similar in some respects to the iPhone system. An integrated 4GB hard drive has enough space for your files, audio and video and the 3.2 megapixel camera captures those memorable moments.

A secondary camera is mounted on the front for video calls and GPS, A-GPS and Bluetooth are all included. Talk time is good as well, 4.5 hours for WCDMA and 5.5 hours for GMS. All in all the HTC Touch Diamond is set to take the Smartphone market by storm; time will tell if it can knock the iPhone off top spot.

Coming within the next couple of weeks with many of the mobile networks stocking it, prices and contracts vary.