HTC has announced the first smartphone made specially with Windows Mobile 6.5 in mind - with the HTC Touch2 smartphone carrying the new Windows Phone moniker.

The phone - described by HTC as 'compact and stylish' is the successor to the popular HTC Touch, and will take advantage of new Microsoft features such as MyPhone and Windows Marketplace.

The phone, which includes HTC's TouchFLO technology, Google Maps for Mobile, YouTube 'and more', will also feature the newly designed Internet Explorer for mobile and all the Exchange email goodies you would expect from a Windows Phone.

The HTC Touch2 will available to customers on October.

via: engadgetmobile.com

via: http://www.AllTouchPro2.com

If you don't know what a HTC Legend is you can take a look at http://www.youmobile.org/article/HTC-Legend

HTC today has announced HTC Legend to be carried by two carriers in Australia, specifically Vodafone 3 Mobile.  HTC Legend will be available for $0 upfront on the $49 cap plan, or can be purchased outright for a RRP of $599. It will be available from Vodafone stores and dealers from 3rd June and launch dates to follow soon on 3 mobile.

Key Features

• Automatically lowers the ringer volume as soon as the phone is picked up
• Mutes the ringer when the phone is flipped face down
• Backs up certain data and settings to the microSD card automatically, such as SMS/MMS messages, bookmarks, and Wi-Fi passwords
• 3.5 mm stereo audio jack
• Social media integration including Facebook, HTC Peep for twittering and Friend Stream
• News widget that combines news feeds into a single easy accessible place
• Photo sharing on Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter
• Video sharing on YouTube
• Enhanced support for Exchange security features such as password protection and remote data wipe
• High fidelity experience with Adobe® Flash support brings to life the vast video and gaming content of the Internet

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Nokia today announced the Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition, an entertainment hub that combines mobile broadcast TV (DVB-H), social networking, music and gaming in one compact 3G device. With mobile broadcast TV consumption on the rise - by 2012 there will be over 300 million people worldwide watching TV on their mobile phones - this handset offers easy access to anyone wanting to enjoy an exceptional live, on-the-move TV experience.

• Watch TV. Anywhere.
• Catch up with friends. Anytime.
• Play music. Whenever.
• Keep up-to-date. Wherever.
• Mobile TV. Roll-out.

Click here to read the rest of the Press Release.

This is exciting.  If you one of the few that never heard about Mint.com you should go check it out.  I am a frequently Mint.com user.  It's a free site that manages your everyday finances.  You can link all your banking and credit accounts into mint.com and it will help you manage them in a nice orderly way.  You can setup alerts like over spending and under spending. etc etc.

Well, mint.com will be coming out with the Android app that could make it even easily to manage your finance through your android devices.  It's rumored to be release Feb of 2010.   I can't wait.!!!

Google has introduced the Google Maps for Mobile Version 4.1, it has some cool added features which make sense of a fast paced and changing world is difficult under the best of circumstances, but when you're on the go, it's even harder. With the new Google Maps for mobile 4.1, these few features that make sorting through search results or quickly seeing Maps info a bit easier.

• Updated Search Results Page
• Swipe for more results
• Latitude widget and Maps live wallpapers
• Switch Google Accounts

source: googlemobile.blogspot.com

Another cool business app update from MeLLmo, Inc, provider of innovative mobile apps that allow users to view and interact with critical business information on-the-go. They have announced the iPhone 4 support with their Roambi Mobile App, this app is currenty in Apple App Store.

Here are great features from Roambi mobile App:

Taking full advantage of Apple's latest mobile operating system, the Roambi App introduces the following features:

• Contextual Calendar Events: The collaboration option available for iOS 4 allows users to schedule a calendar event directly from a Roambi file, enabling the event invitation to be distributed with the Roambi mobile dashboard embedded for context.

• SMS Sharing: Any user browsing a Roambi mobile dashboard with iOS 4 will have the option to send it to an individual or group of people via text message.

• Multitasking: Roambi Pro and Roambi ES3 publishing services enable users to refresh their Roambi mobile dashboards on-the-go to ensure they have the most up-to-date information. Now, with iOS 4, users can choose to manually refresh their Roambi files in the background, while using other apps on iPhone.

If you like to check out more, visit their website at http://www.roambi.com/

Thanks iPhone 4 Forum

How about playing some Xbox Live on your windows mobile phone?  Cool right? 

The hints were already pretty strong on this one, but now Microsoft has come right out and said it, albeit in a job posting - the Xbox Live gaming platform is extending beyond the console and specifically onto WinMo phones.  the Xbox Live gaming platform is extending beyond the console and specifically onto WinMo phones.

via: engadget