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We’ve been hearing about Verizon’s upcoming HTC Whitestone for a while now, and it looks like a new pic and specs for the upcoming dual-mode CDMA / GSM Touch Diamond2 variant have leaked out. Seems like a mixed bag — the revised case with a larger 3.6-inch WVGA display is impressive, but inside you’re looking at Windows Mobile 6.1 running on a 528MHz Qualcomm processor with 256MB of RAM, so you’ve certainly lived through this experience before. That’s pretty much the same case with the HTC Mega, which also leaked today: although it’ll ship with WinMo 6.5 and that hot new version of TouchFLO 2D, it’s a lower-end device with a 2.8-inch QVGA display, a three megapixel camera and yet another 528MHz Qualcomm proc with 256MB of RAM running the show. Oh, and just to round things out, there’s a pic of the Dopod-branded HTC Tachi, which probably means this one’s headed for China. Always nice to put a face to a name, though isn’t it? Pics of the Mega and Tachi at the read link.

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Verizon’s HTC Whitestone leaks out, along with the HTC Mega and Tachi originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve been asked not to reveal the URLs, but we can assure you we’ve seen this official support screen pictured above with our own two eyes, which means that the HTC Hero is all but confirmed in a juicy CDMA blend for Sprint. How (or if) that’ll affect the availability of the US 3G version unlocked or on any carrier is unclear, but given Hesse’s huffy language regarding Pre exclusivity, we wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve got this one locked down for a while as well. We’ve seen a similar support page for an Alltel-branded Snap, so if you’re still tied up in one of the carrier’s legacy divested markets and you’ve been pining after the Snap (and Ozone) on Sprint and Verizon, fear not — your own version is on the way. We’ll admit, if you had asked us a few months back what American carrier would get HTC’s highest-end Android phone to date, Sprint wouldn’t have been our first guess — but hey, good for them. If you can’t win the coverage battle against the Big Red juggernaut, may as well try to win the exclusive hardware battle, right?

[Thanks, Adam]

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HTC support site reveals Hero for Sprint, Snap for Alltel originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Looks like Verizon’s up to something (and we’re not talking about Sholes). A quick trip over to VZW’s site has confirmed that $99 — and a two-year contract — will land you just about any smartphone that they offer (one notable exception being the Samsung Saga), including HTC’s Touch Pro and Touch Diamond. Could this mean that the new Touch Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 are soon to rear their pretty little heads? We’d be down with that.

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Verizon: Touch Diamond, Touch Pro now $99 with contract originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sure, the Touch Pro2 from HTC is available from a variety of carriers around the world at this point — but you won’t find many (read: none) that are offering it in the US right now, which makes T-Mobile’s launch especially notable. As expected, it’ll be hitting on August 12, bringing a 3.2 megapixel camera, AWS 3G, GPS, a glorious 3.6-inch WVGA display, WiFi, and that unique Straight Talk tech that should make the phone one of the best speakerphones you’ve ever used (frequent conference callers, take note). Pricing hasn’t been announced, but expect it in the lovely shade pictures above, which is being termed “mocha” (your choice of vocabulary may vary).

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T-Mobile announces HTC Touch Pro2 for August 12 availability originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Is this really happening? Are we all collectively in some sort of lucid, dreamlike state where Garmin-branded cellphones flow like water, or is this the real deal? Correct us if we’re wrong, readers — but if we’re reading this press release correctly, Taiwanese folks will have a crack at Garmin-Asus’ nuvifone G60 come the 27th of this month, just a few days from now; Singapore and Malaysia will have theirs meanwhile by the end of August, and Europe and the US are “on schedule” for the second half of the year (we hesitate to associate the phrase “on schedule” with this product, but we’ll let it slide this time). If WinMo is more your cup of tea, the M20 will be coming to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia in August as expected — the US isn’t on the roadmap for this one, but Europe should have it later this half. These phones have taken so long to arrive that they’ll be fighting an uphill battle against irrelevance — but with the reality that handsets will be all but replacing dedicated portable nav units in the coming years, it’s a play that Garmin’s gotta still be eager to make nonetheless.

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Garmin-Asus confirms nuvifone G60 for sale this month in Taiwan, M20 soon after originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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