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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Telus Mobility

While Sprint and Verizon still haven’t officially nailed down an exact release date for their incarnations of HTC’s desirable Touch Diamond, Telus isn’t keeping its customers (or potential ones) in the dark any longer, with it at this time declaring that the handset will be available on August 14th. Prices will start at just $150 on a three-year contract, and jump to $350 on a two-year one, $400 on a one-year deal, and a full $450 if you don’t want any strings attached at all. You can also expect to pay $15 a month for a basic email and IM plan, or $30 for email, web browsing and IM — on top of your usual voice plan, of course.

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

Though the Sprint version is the most well-scooped CDMA variant thus far, Telus is actually becoming the first carrier ’round these parts to announce the Touch Diamond imbued with a little EV-DO for your data-consumption pleasure. The phone will run $149.99 CAD (which is just about a wash in US dollars) on a three-year contract, accompanied by Dat. plans ranging from $15 for email and instant messaging to $30 for email, IM, and web browsing. Sprint, Verizon, we anxiously await your press releases.

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Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA

Nokia’s bringing some new, unsurprising, E series hotness to the States in the form of the new E66 slider. Featuring GSM, EDGE, WCDMA and HSDPA bands galore, the phone is slated for a Q3 release this year. Features include a 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera, along with a front-facing cam for video calls, WiFi, A-GPS, 3.6mbps web browsing and a 2.4-inch QVGA screen. What really sets it apart from its E series forebears is the 13.6mm thickness, and some rather sexy new styling. Nokia’s also worked in a sort of business / pleasure switch to change profile from your work email and documents to your personal accounts and such — you can also swap to landscape mode by turning the device. Battery life is certainly no slouch, with 14 days of standby, and 7.5 hours of talk on GSM, or 3.5 hours of talk on 3G. There’s only 110MB of internal memory, but you can supplement that with an 8GB microSD card. The phone comes in “grey steel” or “white steel” (what, no blue steel?), but brace yourself for the pricepoint: Nokia’s quoting this at “under $500,” and probably won’t have any carriers Stateside subsidizing it in the short term. Truly a hefty price for a QVGA phone with little built-in storage, but some Nokia fanboy is certainly plan to get a kick out of it.

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