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“Ultra-Mobile PC” has become somewhat of a dirty word this past year, especially as lower-cost, mini laptops like the Eee PC have captured the imagination (and wallets) of hundreds of thousands of customers. The HTC Shift X9000, the smart phone maker’s first stab at a full Windows machine, is different, however.

The newest addition to HTC’s Windows Mobile 6 Professional line-up,the P3470, will offer sat-nav software and a touch interface via its 2.8in LCD screen, the company said this week. Measuring 108 x 58.3 x 15.7mm, and weighing 122g, the P3470 comes with 128MB RAM of internal memory, 256MB of Flash memory and is capable of […]

When Riyad and I first saw HTC’s S710 we were both blown away. Riyad even gave it a coveted Editor’s Choice award when he reviewed it in its guise as the Orange SPV E650. The reason for our fandom was simple. HTC had taken a Windows Mobile Smartphone and made it functional for text creation.

When HTC launched the original Touch phone in June, they beat Apple to the launch of a small form factor touch screen phone by a couple of months. We liked the original touch for its small size, interface and inclusion of Wi-fi, but found it a little fiddly enter text using the on screen keyboard. […]

The HTC TyTN II is the company’s answer attempt to give you a powerful smartphone in a relativity small form factor, but does it work? We get mobile working with the device to find out. While on the surface the HTC TyTN II might look like a small brick, on closer inspection is really is. […]

The Shadow is an appropriate name for T-Mobile’s new slick slider. That’s because it doesn’t wear its smartphoneness on its sleeve . In fact, it’s really more akin to an LG Chocolate–with a brain and Wi-Fi–than your typical BlackBerry, Treo, or BlackJack. Even better, this handset hides (but doesn’t eliminate) the confusing Windows Mobile desktop […]

The HTC Touch for Sprint is the second incarnation of HTC’s finger based smartphone the company has put out. The original version of the Touch was made for GSM networks and was also the first device to offer HTC’s TouchFLO user interface extension that allow users to use a finger where in the past a […]

Whilst looking like a standard phone at first glance - i.e., large screen, dial pad, shortcut keys - the HTC S710 also conceals a slide-out QWERTY keyboard underneath and a screen which switches automatically between portrait and landscape when you pop the keyboard out. The keyboard is easy to use as long as you don’t […]

Handset maker HTC (Hi-Tech Computer) Monday unveiled its hotly-anticipated Shift UMPC (ultra-mobile PC), along with details of when it will be launched in the U.K. The HTC Shift will run Windows Vista and will have a 7in widescreen display. The screen will be touch-sensitive and will tilt and slide, providing access to the keyboard hidden […]

At an event in London today, HTC showed off its fall lineup of Windows Mobile 6 smartphones. Touch Dual: The Dual takes the Touch a step further by incorporating 2100 MHz HSDPA 3.6Mbps and a slide out keypad, making it a dual slider. It has the same TouchFLO interface as the Touch and adds the […]