Category: HTC (Windows Phone)

Orange Touch HD Update

If you, like me, are waiting for the HTC Touch HD then listen up. We know already that it's available network-free from devicewire.com with free delivery, however there's still a lot of people waiting for Orange to make it available. We've had inform...

HTC Touch 3G Reviewed

Earlier this week we teased you with a quick look at the HTC Touch 3G. The full review is now online. It's got large portions of high-quality pictures, screen shots and videos of the phone in action. Head over to this page to see what we thought of …

HTC Touch HD Unboxing tease – and a warning

Now this is just cruel. If you're waiting for a parcel containing a HTC Touch HD this is going to be torture. Diego Cervia has been unboxing his Italian Touch HD here. If you can try not to look at the carpet too much it's an interesting climpse …

HTC Touch HD Status update

Waiting for the HTC Touch HD ? Well, news is that the first batch of phones are in a truck and on the way to devicewire.com right now. If you're interetsed in getting it network-free don't forget that our free delivery code will still work, plus the b...

HTC Touch 3G action – review coming soon!

The original HTC Touch was a huge success and changed the way that Pocket PC handsets were viewed. It was small, sexy and had a funky new interface. Sure, there was a lot packed into the small package, but now people are after more from their phone. T...

Touch HD update

Bonfire night should be even more special this year - I've just noticed that that the HTC Touch HD is now showing a delivery date of November 5th. So, if you're after one network-free you should be taking delivery very soon indeed. We've also been con...

HTC Touch HD appears on Orange website

Right, the Touch HD. You can get it network free in a couple of weeks plus Orange have the network exclusive. Today it's popped up here on the Orange website as coming soon. Hopefully by now you'll know all about this handset. If not, check out the Or...

HTC Touch HD arriving earlier than expected

Devicewire have just shuffled forward their arrival date for the HTC Touch HD. Yesterday it was expected to arrived on November 30th, but today it's now November 13th - just over two weeks away! Pricing is yet to be confirmed, but get your name down i...

White HTC Diamond pictured

I've just been to Birmingham. During our shopping trip to Birmingham I've seen about a dozen adverts for the Samsung Omnia. It's everywhere. In the Bullring, on billboards across the M6 at Junction 9 and inside nearly every in-store phone catalogue. D...

Touch HD appears in Orange magazines

Harv Singh has just spotted the HTC Touch HD in the coming soon section of the Orange Business magazine for October. There's rumours of an exclusivity agreement on Orange, although we're still hearing that the Touch HD will be on Vodafone too. The Tou...

o2 XDA Serra in store catalogues, coming soon

Lee Sainsbury popped into his local o2 shop this afternoon and had a looksie in their catalogue. The o2 XDA Serra (HTC Touch Pro) is listed as coming soon with a pictures and specs. Staff in store reckon it'll be out in the first week of November, wit...

HTC T8290 WiMax handset pops onto the web

This is the HTC T8290. It's just appeared over on nedge2k.com and looks like a thinner version of the Touch HD, but that's where the similarity ends. Sure, this device has GSM, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0, but there's also WiMax too (read more about WiMax ...

HTC Touch Cruise gets Windows Mobile 6.1 too

Last year I took the HTC Touch Cruise around a local safari park as part of our review. It's a touch-screen device with a 400MHz processor, 3G / HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS and dual cameras (3 megapixel at the back and a CMOS cam up front for …

T-Mobile Shadow II – Right around the corner?

Back in April we spotted some blurry shots of the T-Mobile Shadow II. Now more have appeared, courtesy of CellPhone Signal. It looks like the phone is getting ready for market at last and it seems to function a lot like the HTC Touch Dual. Rumour has ...

HTC S740 Pricing and ETA

If you read our HTC S740 review and are busy saving up, there's some good news from Devicewire. They've got the unlocked HTC S740 priced up at £339.99 (which is £289.35 without the VAT) and stock is expected in just a few weeks time on October 23rd....

HTC Touch HD Product Tour

HTC have just uploaded this Touch HD product tour. Although there's no true hands-on action, it gives you a taster of how you can watch movies, surf the web and communicate in high-definition widescreen quality. Read on to watch the video or click th...

HTC Touch Pro and S740 Coming to Orange ?

We've had a couple of interesting bits of news regarding upcoming handsets on Orange. First we're hearing that the HTC S740 should be turning up on the network towards the end of October. There's nothing on the coming soon pages just yet, but we'll ke...

HTC S740 – The review

Here it is at last - the HTC S740 review. We got a chance to video, photograph and fully test this handset last week. The resulting review is now online complete with example photos from the phone and screenshots of the interface. This is the first tr...

A Weekend with the HTC S740 – Day 2

Well, the HTC S740 has sadly had to go back home, but we do have a review coming very soon and day 2 of our "Weekend With" is now online. This one is over at Google Video due to the length. I've crammed in as much as possible …

A Dream come true

OK, you know the deal. Today the T-Mobile G1 will be announced. It's the Google phone, the Dream, the Android thing. Built by HTC it's already slipped onto the net in these T-Mobile product shots. We've already seen it several times, but this time it...

A Weekend with the HTC S740 – Day 1

We're spending the weekend with the HTC S740. Here's day 1 of the video blog - a tour around the handset showing the two keyboards and the HTC Sliding Panels interface. We also have a look at the screen switching speed and the overall design of the de...

HTC Touch HD – Yet more shots, go on, you want to

While I'm busy on eBay selling anything that isn't nailed down to afford one, the HTC Touch HD is appearing in yet more photo specials. Following the photos and video yesterday, there's now even more shots over on cnet.com. Close-ups? Check. Compari...

More HTC Dream shots, plus no Viva for the UK

A couple of quick HTC-related news bits for your Friday afternoon. Firstly, yet more pictures of the upcoming HTC Dream G1 from rizzn.com show the device, quite literally, out and about. It should be announced on T-Mobile US this coming Tuesday. Also,...

Introducing – A Weekend with the HTC S740

Here it is, the HTC S740. First impressions? It's narrow, it's fast and the screen is vivid and clear. The S740 also appears to be called the "HTC Rose" in the settings screens and the firmware includes the HTC Album along with an RSS and PDF reader. ...

Touch me – Pricing revealed for new HTC handsets

We've just been handed the prices for those new HTC handsets. The HTC Touch HD will be selling for an RRP of £514.99, whilst the HTC Touch 3G is to sell for £319.99 without any navigation software or £349.99 with maps. The HTC Touch Viva will be up...

HTC Touch HD vs iPhone – Now video too

Following the up-close pictures of the HTC Touch HD, French site generation-phonehouse.fr now has a video of the HTC Touch HD. Head over to view it or click the read link below to watch it. It looks really smooth and, yet again, there's a direct compa...

A Week(end) with the HTC S740

Regular readers will hopefully be aware of our "Week With" video blogs. We've covered the HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro. This time we've managed to get hold of the new HTC S740 that and we'll be doing it all over again. Unfortunately we don't ha...

HTC Touch HD vs iPhone shoot-out

Take a look ! We've found these shots over at generation-phonehouse.fr of the upcoming Touch HD. There's a huge dollop of photographic goodness to look at with a video promised shortly. This machine translated version should give you a little bit more...

HTC Dream Launch – September 23rd

The HTC-built Dream handset sporting the Google Android OS is set to be launched on the 23rd in New York. Word on the street is that sales will begin on October 20th with two colours to choose from - black, or white. T-Mobile will be carrying it and …

HTC Touch Diamond – in white

Want the HTC Touch Diamond but fancy it in a different shade? According to tele-online.dk a white version is available if you hunt around enough. It's stil got all the juicy specs of the original, there's just a different shade of paint. Link - tele-o...

We’re Touched…

OK, so today three handsets slipped out of the HTC website. The press releases for all three phones are now on the HTC website with .. tomorrows date on. You can read the press release for the HTC Touch 3G and Viva here with the Touch HD release …

OFFICIAL – Touch Viva on HTC website

Over at the HTC website there's another handset lurking too. It's that Viva handset we mentioned before (aka the Opal). Nieuwemobiel.nl have managed to get shots from the HTC Touch Viva pages on HTC.com. Although we couldn't find the "offical" front-...

OFFICIAL – Touch 3G goes live on the HTC website

Following our story from literally seconds ago we can now confirm that the HTC Touch 3G is now live and official. Inside you've got a Qualcomm MSM7225 CPU running at 528 MHz with Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro and 256MB ROM with 192MB RAM. It's only 102mm X 5...

HTC Touch 3G shows up on htc.com too?!

Hello, hello. What's this ? While we were getting details of the HTC Touch HD we clicked Product Tour and got this - the HTC Touch 3G. There's a different link here, it's www.htc.com/www/product.aspx?id=64806, so this is a seperate product which is be...

OFFICIAL – Touch HD goes live on HTC website!

Woaha! Look what's just turned up on the HTC website! Yes, everything we've heard is true - ever since the first mention of it last month. 5 megapixel camera, 3.5mm audio jack, 800x480 3.8" screen, WiFi, aGPS, 3G / HSDPA, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD, 512MB...

HTC Opal to be the HTC Touch Viva?

WindowsMobileItaly.com appears to have more details on the HTC Opal we reported on a few days back. It's commerical name, according to the article, will be the HTC Touch Viva and will probably be launched on September 30th. We're hearing the the Black...

HTC Blackstone / HTC Touch HD – More details

Last month we told you about a mysterious new device called the HTC Blackstone. There were rumours of a 3.7" screen and VGA screen and now we can reveal that yes, the Blackstone is real. The HTC Blackstone is the device shown today as the HTC Touch HD...

HTC Touch Pro now available on Vodafone UK

Head on over to vodafone if you're after the HTC Touch Pro we reviewed recently. Priced from nothing all the way up to £340.43, it now joins the HTC Diamond, Omnia and upcoming Sony Ericsson - all on Vodafone. The Touch Pro brings all the stuff we s...

HTC Touch HD appears

MoDaCo have news on a new device from HTC called the HTC Touch HD. Equipped with a 5 megapixel camera, GPS, 3G and sporting a massive WVGA screen at 480x800 it's powered by a 528Mhz Qualcomm CPU. 512MB Flash, 288MB RAM and a minimalistic controls also...

QUAR100 – The HTC Quartz?

A new HTC device called the "QUAR100" has just popped up on the Bluetooth SIG site and wi-fi.org. Various sites are already calling this the "HTC Quartz" or "HTC Touch Quartz" and indeed it would fit in with a gemstone-based naming convention followin...