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There is supposed to be a Tmobile touch pro (CODE NAMED VARIO) comming later this year but i take no credit for this except finding it but here is some info.



Take the HTC Touch Diamond (or T-Mobile MDA Compact IV) and add a QWERTY keyboard and a few other things, and you have the T-Mobile MDA Vario IV.


The Vario shares almost all the features of the Compact, including a large 2.8" 640 x 480 pixel display, a 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS, HSDPA and WiFi. The immediately obvious difference is the slide-out QWERTY keyboard (the one pictured has a German QWERTZ variant). The operating system is Windows Mobile 6.1 with what seems to be a TouchFLO-derived interface on top, and all the usual goodies that you would expect to see in a Windows smartphone.

It is also substantially heavier than the Compact at around 158 grams. This increase in weight is mainly due to the slide-out keyboard and the larger capacity battery - the cell on the Vario IV is a 1340 mAh unit compared with the rather puny 900 mAh one in the Compact.

According to T-Mobile, the Vario IV also has more operating RAM (256 MB), and comes with microSD expandable memory. The processor is the same 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM module found in the Compact and Touch Diamond.

We think that the keyboard on the Vario IV will appeal to a lot of users, but the overall "flat slider" layout is perhaps not as ergonomic as the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 or the Nokia E90. The E90 and X1 phones have a higher resolution display too.



T-Mobile MDA Vario IV (HTC Touch Pro) at a glance

Available:
Q3/Q4 2008

Network:
GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 +
UMTS 850 / 2100

Data:
GPRS + EDGE + UMTS (3G) + HSDPA +WiFi

Screen:
480 x 640 pixels, 65k colours

Camera:
3.2 megapixels

Size:
PDA style device
103 x 52 x 18mm / 158 grams

Bluetooth:
Yes

Memory card:
microSD

Infra-red:
No

Polyphonic:
Yes

Java:
Limited

GPS:
Yes

Battery life:
Not specified