What’s that you say? Pre-Order sold out? If you were looking to pre-order the G1 for launch day through T-Mobile, you apparently weren’t looking hard enough. The window to guarantee one of these bad boys on launch day is officially closed, but don’t fret! Rumor has it that only 60,000 units were made available for pre-order. That’s expected to be only 10 percent of the total number that HTC is looking to put out by the end of the year. Many are making the bold assumption that you’ll be able to walk right into a T-Mobile store on October 22nd and simply pick one up.

I guess we’ll have to wait and see!

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The T-Mobile live press conference has just come to an end and it looks like Google Android is going to be a hit. The demo videos they’ve shown has allowed us to see what the phone can really do.

The launch phone will be out for $179 for a 2 year contract on T-Mobile. The launch date is October 22nd and the phone is looking pretty sharp. It weighs about 5.6 ounces and measures up at 4.6 x 2.16 x 0.63 inches. The screen is a sharp 480 x 320 HVGA display and the phone takes full advantage of the 3G network and GPS.

Of course you’ll be able to take excellent pictures on the 3.1 megapixel camera, talk for up to 5 hours, and take full advantage of the 8GB internal memory.

It is missing Bluetooth stereo and video capture right now. But that’s what apps are for!

Tags: bluetooth, g1, google android, htc, htc dream, t-mobile, t-mobile g1

Not too sure exactly what makes Microsoft so confident that they can continue to take hits like this in the cell phone market, but apparently Windows Mobile 7 has been pushed back to the second half of 2009.

The last bit of information we had received had been focused on the fact that Windows Mobile 7 was to appear in the early part of 2009. While Microsoft has neither confirmed nor denied this information, it does seem particularly confusing as to why they wouldn’t shut this down with such a huge Google Android announcement today.

If Microsoft is lucky, they’ll have people like HTC busting their butt to make customized tweaks to their out dated operating system. Or perhaps everything will just run Android?

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HTC has been pumping out more information for one of their latest phones, the HTC Opal, and it looks like this could be the phone to rightfully take the place of the HTC Touch.

Recently some information has been leaked around the net providing insight into what exactly this phone will be capable of doing. The HTC Opal will be running the new TouchFLO 3D UI that operates over the Windows Mobile 6.1 OS. It will carry the same processor as it’s predecessor (TI OMAP 850) but with the following additional features: quad-band GSM / EDGE, WiFi, MicroSD slot, Bluetooth 2.0, 2 megapixel camera, and a 2.8 inch 240 x 320 resoltuion touchscreen.

Tags: bluetooth, Cell Phones, htc, htc opal, htc touch, microSD, touchflo 3d ui, windows mobile 6.1

With the expected October launch date for the Nokia N79 and N85 in Europe coming on us fast, it’s high time that the specs of both systems get solidified.

Considering these phones have already received an FCC approval (just no set date as of yet for a stateside launch) we’ve got all the information you’ll need to decide if these phones are for you.

The N85 is a powerhouse with it’s 2.6 in screen, GPS, 5 megapixel camera, N-Gage compatibility, 8GB of storage, WiFi, and a purported battery life of 28-hours when it comes to playing music.

The N79 bumps the N78 out of the way, offering a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, GPS, 4GB storage, WiFi, swappable covers, and up to 24 hours of music playback.

Either choice seems like a winner in our book.

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HTC has managed to win over many phone users in the past several years. Whether swinging them from their existing smart phone or breaking them into the scene, HTC has been there for it all. But the main turn off for a lot of people interested in the HTC was the lack of standard keypad for dialing if it had a keyboard.

HTC has decided to fix that issue by revamping their old S710 series, but making it tough enough to stand with the big dogs. The phone runs Windows Mobile Stanard and offers a full QWERTY keypad that can be slid out from underneath. You’re also looking at 7.2Mbps HSDPA speeds on both 900 and 2100MHz bands, quadband EDGE, a 3.2 megapixel camera, WiFi, GPS, and a very sharp 2.4 inch QVGA display.

The candy bar styling will keep things nice and simple until you truly need to bust out that full keyboard for whatever reason you may have.

Tags: 3.2 megapixel camera, Cell Phone, GPS, htc, htc s710, Nokia, qvga, wifi

When asking your magic eight ball about the expected launch of HTC’s Android based phones, all signs are starting to point to “no”. Either that or my eight ball is broken….

HTC has been working hard on getting their Android ready phones up and running, particularly the HTC Dream, but it may not be hard enough. The features that Google is demanding out of the phones launching with Android, plus the revenue share have been enough for HTC to possibly question how strong a selling point Android will be.

With the iPhone SDK updating like crazy and providing an active community for developers, it’s difficult for people to choose investing in Android when the updates are so scarce lately (unless you’re one of the elite few). Add in the fact that Windows Mobile, Symbian, and BlackBerry are also a part of this pie, and it will make perfect sense as to why HTC is waiting a bit on this game.

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HTC’s latest incarnation, the Touch Pro, has been slated for a European launch this summer. With all the hype behind the HTC Diamond getting FCC approved, the Touch Pro has managed to slip under the general radar. Sporting a mouthful of specs, this not so tiny slider phone is capable of built in WiFi, HSPA, Bluetooth, a 2.8-inch VGA display, Windows Mobile 6.1 with HTC’s own TouchFLO 3D interface, a 3.2 megapixel camera, 512MB ROM, and 288MB of RAM.

With it’s start in Europe, the phone will be operating on both 900MHz and 2100MHz 3G with quadband GSM and EDGE as well.

Tags: htc, htc diamond, htc touch pro

This may not be the best spy shot we have of the new HTC Pharos 3470 Windows Mobile Smartphone (that’s a mouth full) – but for now it will do. The new phone is reported to have use the HTC TouchFlo interface (which doesn’t need a keyboard) and has a 2.8” QVGA screen, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, 200MHz OMAP processor, and 128MB of Ram. On the downside the phone will be missing a few essentials that HTC consumers are used to which include 3G and WiFi. Read the rest of this entry…

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