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Today HTC has announced its Touch Cruise smartphone, bundled with a new software feature called Footprints. This feature will allow users to take notes and an audio clip associated with images taken with the phone's cam, while identifying its specific geographical location. In addition to geo-tagging images, Footprints also auto-names them with the general location or area where the picture was taken.

A blurry spy shot of what it appears to be the HTC G2 has leaked in the Web. Just when we were starting to forget about this handset... The G2 here looks real, and as we expected features a better 3.2Mpix camera, full touchscreen display, and no physical keyboard.

According to Gizmodo, the handset will be released sometime in May. We in our turn will wait for the official announcement.

Reportedly, T-Mobile will release the HTC Touch Viva as the MDA Basic on its network in early February. While this phone isn't high-end, it still offers a set of decent features such as a 2Mpix camera, GSM/EDGE, TouchFLO 2D, Wi-Fi and GPS.

T-Mobile UK has released the MDA Vario IV (HTC Touch Pro) for its customers, and became the second carrier after Vodafone to offer this handset in the UK.

The device is available online via telephone upgrades, and many customers have already ordered it.

Acording to TmoNews, one of the HTC handsets that were leaked yesterday is actually the future T-Mobile G2, while the other source is saying that the upcoming Rhodium model, also found among the leaked ones, is the Wing II that will replace the old original.

Thus, if this information is true, T-Mobile will be getting two solid additions to its smartphone lineup this year.

Telstra's senior executive announced today that HTC will be releasing a new touchscreen handset that will become a direct competitor to the iPhone and the new Palm Pre. In particular he stated that the upcoming HTC phone is "better and more functional" than the Pre (whatever this means). The new handset is supposedly developed using an HTC's combination of the Google Android OS and Linux based software.

By the looks of it the HTC's 2009 line-up has leaked in the Web. The source provided several new phone names alond with pictures of the corresponding models, including Topaz, Willow W, Thoth, Whitestone W, Rhodium, Citrine and others. You can see them all by visiting ppcgeeks.com forum.

A few days back a new HTC phone called Iolite was leaked on Expansys, and today we know its real specifications thanks to jouwmobiel.nl, where the device is now featured. Check them out below:

• 528 MHz CPU;
• Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro;
• 512MB ROM/288MB RAM;
• 3G support;
• HSDPA/HSUPA with Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE;
• Wi-Fi connectivity;
• 3.

The new yet unannounced HTC Iolite smartphone has been spotted at the Expansys.com online store. Most likely, it is the first phone for the company's 2009 lineup. Known specifications are as follows:

• 2.8" WQVGA (240x400 pixels) touchscreen;
• Quad-band GSM/3G (900/2100 MHz);
• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS;
• TouchFLO 3D interface;
• Built-in GPS;
• Wi-Fi

We expect it to be annonced at CES 2009 in a couple of days, but who knows.

Just to let you know: according to some sources, HTC might soon stop using Qualcomm’s sluggish 3G chips, and will instead go for Ericsson’s Mobile Platform (EMP), especially since the latter produces one of the smallest tri-band 3.5G chipsets.