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If you looked at the HTC Diamond and thought “Nah, I need a keyboard”, heads up: this might be the phone for you. Featuring much of the same look and feel of the HTC Diamond, the HTC Touch Pro boasts HSDPA and HSUPA connectivity (up to 7.2 mbps - glorious!), the same 2.8 inch VGA screen as the Diamond, a 1350 mAh battery, 512 MB of flash ROM storage, 288 MB of RAM (what a curious number - why not 256 MB?), microSD expansion, GPS capabilities (no real GPS, only AGPS? Really?), built-in TV-out functionality, and a 3.2 megapixel camera. The full press release is below, followed by a bunch of images of this beautiful device.

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Yesterday at a press event hosted in London, HTC unveiled its latest Windows Mobile device, the diamond.

The Diamond is equipped with a beefy 528 MHz processor, 4GB storage inbuilt, HSDPA, FM Radio, 3.2MP camera. Unlike the other “Touch” GPS built in and working out of the box. Check out the overview of the device:

The Diamond runs on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.1, Microsoft latest version of Windows Mobile. Unfortunately Microsoft hasn’t made many great improvements to the user interface of Windows Mobile, so what HTC has done is build in applications and customizations to work around the wonkiness of WM.These customizations are called TouchFlo 3D which adds the following sweetness to the device:

• Rather than having to initiate it with a swipe, it replaces Windows Mobile’s standard Today screen
• TouchFLO 3D also appears to be very well integrated in the OS. It’s less of an add-on and more of a new philosophy towards Windows Mobile. For example, the 5-way is also touch-sensitive so you can rotate your thumb around it to zoom in and out. It also demonstrates the power of Windows Mobile’s data structure — TouchFLO 3D has previews of emails, allows you to examine your pictures, and plays your music directly within the interface.
• TouchFLO 3D tech is also built-into a custom build of Opera 9.5. But get this, no matter what your zoom level is, the text automatically wraps to the zoom. This is in contrast to the iPhone’s browser, which sometimes is unable to get the text to wrap properly.
• TouchFLO 3D is, in fact, 3D in its animation effects. The Touch Diamond, unlike previous HTC devices, appears to be fully hardware accelerated and uses that power to full effect.

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If you don’t really use or care for the built in HTC TouchFlo you can disabled it… but it’s not as easy as hitting your settings menu. To do it you’ll need to modify your registry (check out Resco Registry editor) and modify the following key:

HKLM\Software\OEM\TFLOSettings:EnableScroll

Set the value for EnableScroll = 0

Well it FINALLY happened. HTC has dropped the 3rd ROM update for the Sprint Mogul and it includes EVDO RevA and GPS.

The details of the ROM update include

• Adds EV-DO Rev.A functionality for faster download and upload speeds when transmitting data wherever EV-DO Rev. A coverage is available.
• Adds advanced GPS functionality including the software for Sprint Navigation.
• Adds a Task Manager to the Today screen for easier access and management of Running Programs.
• Improves Bluetooth performance including usage with Phone As Modem and wireless stereo headsets.
• Corrects an issue where Windows Live Messenger content may be erased when the device power cycles.

The last Mogul ROM update was riddled with problems, so here’s to hoping they got it right this time. Oddly, there is no announcement for a Sprint Touch (aka HTC Vogue) enabling the same functionality. The Touch which sold over 2 million units last year uses the same chipset as the Mogul, hopefully we’ll see an update soon (it was after all announced GPS would be available end of Q1).

HTC official ROM update link.

Direct download link to Version 3.35.651.2.