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

Hard as it may be to believe, not every CDMA phone out of HTC is destined for North American soil. The company clearly sees the potential for its Touch Pro to win the hearts and minds of Windows Mobile lovers the world over, so it has partnered with KDDI au to bring it to Japan as the E30HT next spring. Thing is, au’s a CDMA network through and through — with EV-DO, of course — so it comes as no surprise that the version launching over there looks suspiciously like the one coming to Sprint and other CDMA carriers in the coming months. Can’t wait until the first part of 2009 to put it in your pocket? Well, tough cookies — but at least you’ll be able to catch an early glimpse at CEATEC at the end of this month where the E30HT is scheduled to make a cameo.

[Via Engadget Japanese]

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

Hard as it may be to believe, not every CDMA phone out of HTC is destined for North American soil. The company clearly sees the potential for its Touch Pro to win the hearts and minds of Windows Mobile lovers the world over, so it has partnered with KDDI au to bring it to Japan as the E30HT next spring. Thing is, au’s a CDMA network through and through — with EV-DO, of course — so it comes as no surprise that the version launching over there looks suspiciously like the one coming to Sprint and other CDMA carriers in the coming months. Can’t wait until the first part of 2009 to put it in your pocket? Well, tough cookies — but at least you’ll be able to catch an early glimpse at CEATEC at the end of this month where the E30HT is scheduled to make a cameo.

[Via Engadget Japanese]

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Filed under: Handsets, Features, Nokia, EV-DO, CDMA

Sure, you might be the biggest Christian Bale fan in the world right at this time, but what about this time next year when The Dark Knight DVDs are already collecting dust on bookshelves around the globe? That was the million-dollar question on our minds when we heard that Verizon was commemorating the launch of its Nokia 6205 and the latest Batman flick with a tied-in version of the low end flip. Turns out it’s all good, though — a look through the custom packaging revealed a grand total of two battery covers, one with the Batman logo and one without, so it should be pretty easy to avoid those embarrassing “what’s with the batphone?” queries in a few months’ time. Otherwise, there’s very little to say about the phone — it truly is a minimalist flip — though we’re definitely excited to see Nokia’s apparently renewed commitment to working not just with CDMA, but with CDMA carriers in North America.

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