HTC Touches A Nerve With New Touch Screen Smartphones

Apple may have sold 1 million iPhones in less than three months, but HTC -- a Windows Mobile smartphone manufacturer -- gave the iPhone a run for its money with 800,000 HTC Touch phones sold in a similar period. It unveiled even more of them yesterday.

Last week I blogged about the increasing importance of touch screen interfaces on advanced phones. We all know about the iPhone. While it may not have garnered nearly the same amount of press as the converged device from Apple, the HTC Touch (released mere weeks ahead of the iPhone) has sold almost as many units. That's without any advertising, unlike the iPhone, which has received nearly constant attention from the media since it was announced.

The Touch is a Windows Mobile smartphone that has a touch screen overlay that users can interact with to access the Touch's multimedia and other programs. Yesterday, HTC updated the Touch Dual with a sliding keypad and improved touch interface. But that's not all -- HTC added blazing fast HSDPA 3G speeds, something the iPhone is sadly lacking.

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Palm in red as iPhone grabs sales

The US handheld computer maker Palm has reported a three-month loss as the launch of Apple's iPhone hit sales of its own smartphones.

It made a net loss of $841,000 (£412,000) between June and August, compared with a profit of $16.5m in the same three months of 2006.

Palm warned on 19 September that it was likely to report a loss.

Analysts blamed it on increased competition from Apple and other manufacturers of high-end phones.

It is the first set of results since Palm sold one quarter of its shares to the private equity house Elevation Partners.

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RIM's Touts Wi-Fi BlackBerry As An iPhone-Killer For Enterprise

Though it's not the first Wi-Fi/cellular device to arrive on American shores, it is the first of the popular BlackBerry smartphones to offer both forms of connectivity.

Priced to compete with the iPhone and offering a similar blend of cellular and Wi-Fi connectivity, the dual-mode BlackBerry 8820 is now available to U.S. customers through AT&T (T), the company said Thursday.

Introduced in July, the 8820 is the first BlackBerry to provide access to both public and private Wi-Fi networks, as well as cellular systems. It is now on sale at AT&T stores and on the AT&T Web site, at $349 for the device with a two-year service plan.

RIM (RIMM) launched a Wi-Fi-only BlackBerry in February 2005. Now, BlackBerry loyalists can use their cellular service for voice calls and e-mail, and their corporate in-house wireless LAN or public Wi-Fi hotspots for e-mail and limited Web browsing.

Though it's not the first Wi-Fi/cellular device to arrive on American shores, it is the first of the popular BlackBerry smartphones to offer both forms of connectivity. As such the 8820 is expected to be popular with enterprise customers accustomed to BlackBerry's iconic design and ease of use -- and to help blow open the long-anticipated, slow-to-arrive market for dual-mode handsets in this country.

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