HTC announced the HTC Touch Pro , code named Raphael (Who picks these?) as the latest addition to it’s touchy line up.

A successor to the stunning Diamond, the HTC Touch pro seems to be the Diamond geared towards the business community with it’s signature slider keyboard.
Touch goodness with horizontal keyboard efficiency, Not a bad combo…

Interesting tech specs include:

• Qualcomm 528 MHz Processor
• Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional OS
• 512 MB ROM
• 288MB RAM
• Slightly larger than the diamond @102 mm (L) X 51 mm (W) X 18.05 mm (T)
• Display    2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with VGA resolution
• HSDPA/WCDMA
• Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• Slide-out 5-row QWERTY keyboard
• Built in GPS and AGPS ready
• 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus and flash light
• VGA CMOS color video call camera

More Specs and Details @  HTC’s Offcial product page

I can’t remember the last time i heard or saw the word “Philips” while i was not in the kitchen or playing a quick game of curling with my old CD player.

Philips is trying to make it back into our world and guess with what ?
No not perfume silly , that’s for celebrities… Cell phones, a touch cell phone mind you.

The two new models from Philips are dubbed the X800 and Xenium X-Connect

The Philips X800 (pictured right) specs point it out to be a tri-band GSM handset with a 2.9-inch 262K color TFT display and of course with ..drum roll.. a touch sensitive screen.
There’s also a 2 megapixel auto focus camera in there.

In true iPhone ripoff fashion, the interface is fully touch based with a twist: It supports hand writing recognition .

The Philips Xenium X-Connect on the other hand  will run Windows Mobile 6 a slightly larger 3-inch display. GPRS/UMTS/HSDPA, integrated GPS-receiver are also on the roster.