The Telus HTC Touch Pro2 is now available at Best Buy for CAD$249.99 (US$230). In case you didn’t know, the smartphone features a sliding QWERTY keyboard, a 3.2MP shooter with auto-focus, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, a microSD (HC) card slot, an FM radio with RDS and a 528Mhz Qualcomm CPU.

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Microsoft announces Windows Mobile 6.5.The new OS should be pre-installed on phones coming out in Q4 2009; sadly, it sounds as though no existing WinMo devices will be “officially” upgradeable.

What’s new at Windows Mobile 6.5 :

• Focus on Touch Friendliness with new Honeycomb Design
• New version of Internet Explorer which adds zoom slider and frequently-used commands
• New redesigned menus that can be used stylus-free
• Fingerable contacts and home screens

Acer today made official the first smartphones to launch under its own name. The Tempo X960, F900, M900, and DX900 smartphones.The Tempo X960 have a 2.8-inch touchscreen and a customized Windows Mobile 6.1 interface with large, finger-sized buttons for common tasks as well as widgets for weather and other quick but frequently accessed features. It comes with a relatively quick 533MHz Samsung processor and is outfitted with a 3.2-megapixel camera, GPS and Wi-Fi. A microSDHC slot and a directional pad provide storage and backup controls respectively. For business users, the F900 is a more media-oriented alternative to the X960 and drops non-touch input for the same 3.8-inch display as the M900 while keeping the 3.2-megapixel camera and other features of its X series equivalent.

The DX900 is tailored to Asians and Europeans that regularly use two SIM cards to mix prepaid services, roam continents, or to keep separate phone lines. It gets the same 2.8-inch display and 3.2-megapixel camera as the X960 along with its sibling’s other features.After you jump see all the features of the Tempo X960, F900, M900, and DX900 smartphones. Read the rest of this entry »

T-Mobile, announced the availability of the new T-Mobile Shadow. Featuring a more rounded and compact design with two new color options, support for T-Mobile Unlimited HotSpot Calling, and increased processing power, the new Shadow is the perfect device for sharing life’s special moments. The new Shadow comes with Windows Mobile 6.1 on board, being the first WM device to support the Unlimited HotSpot Calling service from T-Mobile.

Finally today, HTC revealed that it will bring out a North American version of its S740 slider. The S743 switches from the previously Europe-only HSPA 3G to a dual-band 850MHz/1,900MHz link suited to AT&T in the US and Rogers in Canada.This aside, the S743 is basically the same with the S740, hence it has that diamond shaped back cover and the weird, elongated case that hosts both an alphanumeric and a full QWERTY keyboard. HTC plans to ship the Windows Mobile 6.1 phone sometime in the first three months of the year as an unlocked, unsubsidized device. Pricing hasn’t been named but should be high without carrier discounts.

Motorola will soon begin selling its first communicator with Windows Mobile, which is designed for normal use. According to some Chinese sites Atila touchscreen phone will be called Motorola A3000 and/or A3100, depending on final final specs and operator.Motorola A3000/ A3100 Atila will be a pretty powerful toucscreen handset with:

* 850/1900/2100 Mhz GSM/GPRS/EDGE, UMTS/HSDPA connectivity
* 528 Mhz Qualcomm CPU, 256 ROM, 128MB RAM
* Windows Mobile 6.1
* 2.8″ QVGA 262K color display
* 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED Flash
* 1130 mAh battery

A few weeks ago,the T-Mobile G1 was made available in white color, HTC now unveiled another whitey, the HTC Touch Diamond. We all enjoyed the smartphone in black, but the snow started to show up in various places and it’s great to stay in fashion therefore a white Touch Diamond would be more than welcomed as a Christmas gift. Well, the white smartphone should be available in a couple of days so stay tuned.

Verizon on Tuesday became the first American carrier to offer the Samsung Omnia. The Omnia will be priced at $249.99, after a $70 mail-in rebate and the signing of a 2-yr contract agreement. The carrier doesn’t provide full specifications for its version of the handset but confirms a very close similarity to the original version previously limited to Europe and Korea. While switching to CDMA and EVDO, the Verizon Omnia continues to carry a 3.2-inch, 400×240 touch display with haptic (vibration) feedback and a customized on-screen keyboard; a touchpad at the bottom lets users control normal d-pad functions without losing precision.

It also provides a five-megapixel camera with an LED flash, Wi-Fi and more advanced media playback than Microsoft offers with support for DivX and XviD video along with regular media formats. Storage isn’t mentioned, but in foreign versions usually combines at least 4GB of built-in storage with a microSDHC card slot.