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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Verizon Wireless, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA

And then there was one. Following a November 24 launch of the Touch Pro on Verizon, that’ll leave just T-Mobile among the big four US carriers without a version of HTC’s top-of-the-line QWERTY set — though at a staggering $419.99 on a two-year contract, we’re not sure that we’d bother anyway. To be fair, that price comes before a $70 mail-in rebate, but that only knocks it down to $350, which still makes the Touch Pro one of Verizon’s priciest devices. Following telesales availability, we’ll get to see it, touch it, and take it home from retail locations starting on December 1, which gives us a few days to collect soda cans and take ‘em to Michigan for the 10-cent deposits.

[Thanks, anonymous tipster]

Touch Pro launching on Verizon November 24, in stores December 1 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: HTC, Android

Teardown specialist iSuppli is at it again, digging through the G1’s guts this time around in an effort to wrap its inquisitive brain around the inaugural Android handset’s bill of materials. The result? $144, which naturally doesn’t reflect HTC’s R&D — an additional expense that might have been unusually low for the G1 considering HTC’s overwhelming expertise in manufacturing all things mobile. For the record, this is about $30 less than iSuppli’s July estimate for the 8GB iPhone 3G, though the comparison isn’t terribly fair considering that the G1 has a mere pittance of internal storage by comparison. There’s no telling what T-Mobile pays HTC for each and every G1 it sells, but we pay $179 (or less) on contract — so it seems HTC is making itself a nice little profit right out of the gate and customers aren’t footing much of the bill. At least, not until they’ve gone a few months into their two-year agreements.

iSuppli says T-Mobile G1 costs $144 to make, nothing to love originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE

Hey Sprint, you listening? Granted, GSM doesn’t do Sprint a whole lot of good in the States, but swapping a CDMA radio into HTC’s first WiMAX effort in this place would make for a downright mighty response to the Touch HD. The previously-seen T8920 has turned out to be the MAX 4G, an 800 x 480 monster with 8GB of Flash on board, two cameras, an FM radio, GPS, WiFi, triband EDGE, and — most importantly — WiMAX support, making it the first GSM / WiMAX handset anywhere in the world. It’ll be launching on Scartel’s Yota network in Russia, and if you have friends cool enough to have a MAX 4G of their own, calls between the two of y’all will automatically be routed over the WiMAX airwaves using VoIP. A launch Dat. hasn’t been declare, but unless you’re in Russia, there’s probably not much point in even bothering to lust after this one.

HTC MAX 4G officially declare, world’s first GSM / WiMAX phone originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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