HTC's Touch Dual makes US debut at CTIA

Brace yourself, US-based Touch Dual lovers -- the handset that your Japanese / European friends have been taunting you with for months is finally making the trip stateside. Slated to launch "later this quarter" (at Best Buy initially, of all places), the US Touch Dual will come rocking Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, TouchFLO, Office Mobile, Live HTC Home, a 2-megapixel camera, quad-band GSM support and HSDPA connectivity. Sadly, HTC didn't give us the pleasure of knowing a price, but we'll be keeping an ear to the ground for more exact details surrounding the release.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2008 1:43PM]

Is this going to finally have triband HSDPA? Why must they ditch the lovely 20key keyboard that I like.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2008 2:16PM]

Want.

Apparently it is 850/1900 HSDPA.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2008 4:43PM]

Still no video drivers, but maybe QTV drivers finally.

[compboss17 Posted Apr 1st 2008 5:35PM]

Front facing video camera? Video conferencing on ATT confirmed?

[BadWolfCubed Posted Apr 5th 2008 6:26PM]

The press release does list the 20-key keyboard variant, not the 16, so there is some hope!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2008 6:52PM]

This should be a great product, but I would prefer that the T-Mobile/HTC would release it for the US market. I would like this phone over the T-Mobile Shadow.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 14th 2008 12:59AM]

I work as a rep for tmo and there has been alot of talk about the 3G replacements for the winmo devices (shadow, wing, Dash) That and when i first went to the sort of debut thing for the shadow they said the ut was going to be the first in a series like the sidekicks. How sick would it be if the touch dual was the shadow 2. The other version has the same keypad as the current shadow and it will be out around time for 3g to roll out national. reply if you think this is plausible

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2008 4:50AM]

This should be a great product, but I would prefer that the T-Mobile/HTC would release it for the US market. I would like this phone over the T-Mobile Shadow.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2008 12:13PM]

his should be a great product, but I would prefer that the T-Mobile/HTC would release it for the US market. I would like this phone over the T-Mobile Shadow.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 17th 2008 11:53AM]

This should be a great product, but I would prefer that the T-Mobile/HTC would release it for the US market. I would like this phone over the T-Mobile Shadow.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 30th 2008 9:22AM]

The US Touch Dual is now on the Best buy mobile site. Listed as coming soon. Price $549.99