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GSMArena has posted a thorough 9-page review, where they compared two high-end touchscreen smartphones - HTC's Touch Diamond and Samsung's i900 Omnia. Reviewers have carefully examined everything, including UI, hardware, features and overall usability. If you're interested, just follow the source link.

This is a new Chinese clone of the Sony Ericsson's XPERIA X1. It's pretty cool, I must say, and I even wonder why they didn't make it earlier.

Actually, the original X1 was not cloned completely: it was slightly modified to offer a tilting display, similar to the one on the HTC TyTN II. Other features include a 5Mpix camera, 3", 16 million color touchscreen, and a built-in TV tuner.

FCC has unveiled the new HTC NEON400. It has a Touch Dual form-factor, i.e. the original Touch with a slider keyboard, and apparently supports CDMA 850 / 1900 bands. This means it could very well be launched on Sprint, Verizon, and Alltel networks - we'll just have to wait before it is officially announced by someone other than FCC.

Good news for Telus customers. The carrier will soon be bringing the CDMA version of the HTC Touch Diamond to Canada. The handset will cost $149.99 CAD with a 3-year contract and one of the data plans randing from $15 to $30.

Sprint, now it's your turn.

Judging by the picture leaked from the PPCGeeks forum, apparently there's a CDMA version of the HTC Touch Diamond coming soon to Sprint. Specifications remain the same with the GSM variant, only the interface is slightly different.

No word on pricing and availability yet, so stay tuned...

The CDMA version of the anticipated HTC Touch Pro WM-based slider has just passed the FCC. It bears the “RAPH800” model number and supports 850MHz/1900MHz CDMA and EVDO bands. Well, it's good news for Sprint and Verizon customers, let's just hope the device launches in time.

Why do we need the Dream, when other HTC handsets, like Touch Diamond and Touch Pro are perfectly compatible with Google Android OS?

The latest model to get the Android port is the HTC Touch Cruise, also known as the Polaris.

Of course, the system is not so stable and functional as Windows Mobile and still needs to be worked on, but it's a start, and a good sign for those who own a handset capable of running Android.

Good news for Sprint customers, owners of the HTC Touch Vogue.

After HTC Mogul this handset is the next to receive a Windows Mobile 6.1 update. You can download it here.

Sprint subscribers can take advantage of an official Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM update for their HTC Mogul smartphone.

ROM build version is 19208.1.0.2 of CE OS 5.2.19208, and the radio version is 3.42.02.

All willing can get it at xda-developers forums.

We don't know what to think... Many sources now indicate that we won't see Google Android based handsets till the fourth quarter. However, originally it was implied that the first phones will be available in 2H 2008, but when exactly was not mentioned. Knowing this, all we can say for sure is that the first Android-based HTC smartphones will be available from T-Mobile sometime this year.