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

Alright T-Mobile, seriously, how can you charge $299.99 for a Wing on contract with a straight face (do carriers have faces?) while every single one of your competitors is rocking a device that’s essentially two generations fresher for the same price? Alltel becomes the latest to add HTC’s quintessential WinMo QWERTY smartphone to its stable, charging $279.99 for the privilege of adding a Touch Pro to your account on contract after $100 rebate. From the looks of things, it’s basically Sprint’s version with a tweaked version of the TouchFLO 3D UI that’s either prettier or uglier than the stock build, depending on your point of view. Let’s be honest, though: doesn’t everything look good in VGA resolution?

[Thanks, theups]

Alltel releases the HTC Touch Pro originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tags: 3d Ui, Alltel, Alltel Mobile, Engadget Mobile, Faces, Htc Touch, Nbsp, Point Of View, Privilege, Single One, Smartphone, Sprint, Stable, Stock, Straight Face, T Mobile, Tweaked Version, Two Generations, Vga Resolution, Winmo

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia

By all accounts, chin. will eventually end up with LTE along with the rest of the world — thank goodness — but in the meantime, there’s a hodgepodge of 3G techs brewing in the Far East including a healthy dose of the country’s homegrown TD-SCDMA “standard.” Not to worry though, denizens of the world’s most populous country; turns out you won’t be stuck with domestic handsets and the occasional Samsung or Motorola to get your high-speed fill. Nokia has mentioned at Macau’s Mobile Asia Congress this week that it has a strong commitment to TD-SCDMA (and with a market that big, it’s pretty hard to ignore) — but what’s more, they’re hard at work on an S60-based smartphone for TD-SCDMA that will see launch by the end of 2009. With that kind of talk, the Sprints, Verizons, Bells, and Teluses of the world have to be screaming bloody murder that they can’t bother to do the same for good, old-fashioned, well-established CDMA — but then again, the North American market is still a little bit of a mystery to Nokia, isn’t it?

Nokia says “yes” to TD-SCDMA, has S60 phone in the works originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tags: Bells, Denizens, Far East, Goodness, Handsets, High Speed, Hodgepodge, Homegrown, Launch, Little Bit, Lte, Motorola, Nbsp, Nokia, Populous Country, Rest Of The World, Scdma, Screaming Bloody Murder, Smartphone, Strong Commitment

Filed under: Handsets, LG, ATT, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

LG and AT&T have done a pretty commendable job of keeping leaks about their glossy new WinMo set to a bare minimum, but you can only keep a phone this ritzy under wraps for so long, right? Word on the street is that AT&T stores will be ordering the LG Incite as of this Thursday, filling a gap in the lineup between the Vu and the Eternity — full touchscreen dumbphones — and the Fuze, the hot new QWERTY smartphone of the range. If the rumored specs hold up, we’re looking at a WQVGA display, 3-megapixel cam, 3.6Mbps HSDPA, and Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. Any would-be Fuze buyers second-guessing their persons at this time?

[Thanks, Kal]

LG Incite release imminent on AT&T originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tags: 17 Nov, Amp, Att Mobile, Bare Minimum, Commendable Job, Engadget Mobile, Eternity, Fuze, Gap, Gsm Edge, Leaks, Nbsp, Smartphone, Umts, Winmo, Word On The Street, Wraps