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Say hello to the Samsung Intercept, the follow up to the Moment.  It will launch on Sprint July 11th for a yet to be disclosed price.  Features include a 3.2-inch touchscreen, full slide out QWERTY keyboard, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, microSD card, GPS and Android 2.1.  It may or may not have an improved camera.

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Motorola’s CLIQ is now available at T-Mobile for $199.99 after a 2-year contract signing or $399.99 if you opt for one of T-Mobile’s Even More Plus plans, which requires no annual contract.  Feature wise the CLIQ offers an always on home screen that automatically delivers messages, Facebook updates and more.  It also includes a 5 megapixel camera, Android OS, GPS, 3G, WiFi, microSD card slot, a full QWERTY keyboard and Bluetooth.

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Right now Verizon must be happier than a pig in poo.  Why?  They just launched HTC’s Touch Pro2, and despite being one of the last carriers to the gate with this smartphone, they’ve managed to undercut the competition by $150.  That’s right, you can grab the HTC Touch Pro2 (this Friday) for $200 after 2-year contract signing and $100 mail-in-rebate.  Meanwhile T-Mobile and Sprint are selling the same handset for $350.

In case you forgot the features of the HTC Touch Pro2:

• High-speed connectivity over Verizon Wireless’ Mobile Broadband network (1x/EV-DO Revision A 800/1900 M
• Global connectivity to allow customers to access e-mail and data in more than 180 destinations and to use the phone for voice calling in more than 220 destinations (GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz WCDMA/HSPA 2100 MHz)
• Wi-Fi capabilities (802.11 b/g)
• 3.6 inch WVGA resolution (480 x 800) tilting touch screen
• Advanced speakerphone with noise-cancelling technology
• 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera with video capture
• Touch-sensitive zoom bar
• Seamless connectivity with Microsoft® Exchange, Outlook and Office applications with Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
• Bluetooth® 2.1 with EDR and A2DP stereo
• Processor: Qualcomm MSM 7600A, 528 MHz
• Memory: 512 MB ROM, 288 MB RAM
• Dimensions: 4.57” x 2.33” x .68” (length x width x  height)
• Weight: 6.3 ounces (with standard battery)
• Extended 1500 mAh battery for longer operation times
• Up to 5.3 hours of talk time (CDMA) or up to 13.5 days of standby time (CDMA)

…Continue reading: Verizon’s HTC Touch Pro2 Going For $200, $150 Less Than T-Mobile Or Sprint

Is this the phone that will save Motorola’s handset division?

Called the Cliq, it’s the first of many Android handsets that are set to emerge from Motorola this year and next.  This one features a full QWERTY keyboard, WiFi, 5 megapixel camera, video recording abilities, 3G connectivity and a slew of other features.  But like Transformers, there’s more than meets the eye when it comes to the Cliq.

Sure, it runs Android, which probably stands to be the second most popular mobile OS, that is if Google has there way.  But what really stands out is MOTOBLUR, which is best described as Motorola’s proprietary home screen skin.  In essence it’s just another Android app, but MOTOBLUR is one smart cookie.  Not only does it display all your social networking info - messages, status updates and newsfeeds - on the home screen, but it can suck down your friend’s Facebook info and automatically update your contact list’s pictures, numbers, emails and other pertinent info. Furthermore, all info is synced with the MOTOBLUR secure server, so in the event that you lose the device you don’t lose the info.  You can either locate the device using the phone’s built-in GPS and/or wipe the device clean of any data.

The Motorola Cliq, with MOTOBLUR will launch on T-Mobile during the 4th quarter for a yet to be disclosed price.  The device will be renamed the Motorola DEXT for European and South American markets and will launch probably sometime next year. …Continue reading: Motorola’s First Android Handset: The Cliq With MOTOBLUR

Looky, looky, Nokia’s not the only one with a bit of handset news today.  Set to launch in Q4 of this year, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 will feature a variety of improvements over the first iteration and will ship with Windows Mobile 6.5.  The specs have yet to be published, but they let us know that it will include an 8.1 megapixel camera and 4GB microSD card loaded with 13 ‘panels’.  Sony Ericsson is currently in talks with a variety of service providers, but I’d expect it to launch in the EU and possibly Asia first.

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Nokia officially announced the slimmed down version of their N97, the Mini N97.  The cut backs aren’t drastic as this version features a 3.2-inch versus a 3.5-inch touchscreen, lacks a d-pad and a slightly smaller footprint.  Nokia also says they’ve injected this version with “flick-scrolling”, which should mean iPhone like scrolling through web pages and applications.

Specs:

• Dimensions: 113 x 52.5 x 14.2 mm
• Weight: 138 g
• Display:     3.2 inch TFT nHD 16:9 widescreen (640 x 360 pixels) with up to 16 million colors
• Camera: 5 megapixels with Carl Zeiss Tessar lens; autofocus and flash
• Video capture: MPEG-4 VGA (640x 480 px) at up to 30 fps
• Video playback: supports RealVideo and Flash Lite 3.0 with PAL/NTSC video-out
• Music playback: MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA
• Built-in GPS with A-GPS support
• 3.5mm AV connector for stereo headphone jack
• Memory: 8Gb internal memory with MicroSD expansion slot up to an additional 16 Gb
• Connectivity: High speed MicroUSB 2.0
• Data connectivity: WCDMA, GPRS/EDGE, HSDPA
• Talk time: Up to 7.1 hrs
• Standby time: Up to 320 hrs
• Music playback time: Up to 28 hrs
• Video playback time: Up to 3.5 hrs

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Last week we got our first official peak at Nokia’s newest phone, the N900. While we’ve known of its existence for a while, previous to Mobile-reviews official hands on we had only seen renders and heard rumors of the device. Now, today someone has leaked an official press shot and as you can see it matches up to last week’s leak. Nokia is set to kick off Nokia World on September 2nd, which is when we should get an official announcement along with specs and availability of the touchscreen phone.

[via Engadget]

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T-Mobile and Samsung officially launched the Gravity 2 today.  They’re billing it as an “affordable 3G messaging phone”, and at $30 with a 2-year contact signing I’d have to agree ($50 mail-in-rebate required).  It features a slide out QWERTY keyboard, 2 megapixel camera, GPS, microSD card slot, Bluetooth and is available in metallic pumpkin & berry mauve.

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Sprint is scrapping to make a come back and if anything is gonna help them, aside from the Palm PRE, it’s the Android powered devices.  The InstinctQ - a spin off of the original Instinct that Sprint launched a many a months ago - is set to run the Android OS and include a full slideout QWERTY keyboard underneath its hood.  The joystick appears to be of the optical flavor, while the ‘home’ button and ‘back’ buttons are integrated into the phone’s touchscreen.  There’s no word on an official launch date but I’d guess in time for the holiday shopping season.

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News has surfaced that T-Mobile is priming their guns to launch the HTC Touch Pro2.  This news comes as a surprise as we last saw the Touchpro2 in May adorned with a Verizon badge.  The launch date for the QWERTY, touchscreen handset is said to be August 12th, but price is currently unknown.

Other features include a 3.2 megapixel cameras, touchscreen, WiFi, GPS and 3G connectivity.  Like all HTC phones, or should I say most HTC phones, the Touch Pro2 will run Windows Mobile 6.1, but be skinned with HTC’s proprietary TouchFLO 3D UI.

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