AT&T gets its first Windows Mobile 6.5 phone for sale and before the official release of the new OS. HTC Diamond 2 presented as HTC Pure by AT&T is on the floors of AT&T at $150 with a 2-yr contract and after a $50 rebate. The same price rebate is available on HTC Tilt 2(codified version of HTC Touch Pro2)  as well, making it cost around $300 with a 2-yr agreement. The Tilt 2 release is said to be in the queue for a bit more weeks.

The Touch Flo 3D and the new mobile OS are the highlights of the devices. AT&T’s official site is updating itself for now.

Have a look at some tit-bits from the press release:

Marketplace

AT&T will support Windows Marketplace for Mobile in 2009 for access to a variety of applications on new AT&T devices, including the HTC PURE and HTC Tilt 2. Additionally, AT&T customers’ purchases from Windows Marketplace can be added to their monthly statements. After Microsoft delivers Windows Marketplace later this year for other versions of Windows Mobile, AT&T will make it available to customers using those versions.

Windows Mobile 6.5

Windows Mobile 6.5 received several upgrades that enhance ease-of-use, such as a touch-friendly user interface and improved browser with Flash support. Content and applications are just a fingertip away on the redesigned Start Menu and Internet Explorer Mobile will support the rich experiences that many Web pages offer for desktop computers.

HTC Tilt 2
Designed for the business professional, the HTC Tilt 2 is designed with distinct style and strength while delivering the most powerful productivity experience available on a mobile phone. The HTC Tilt 2 features a high-resolution 3.6-inch widescreen WVGA display which can be easily tilted for an expanded viewing area and a large QWERTY keyboard, which is optimized for heavy email use. A quality speakerphone experience is enabled by dual speakers and dual microphones with advanced noise cancellation, and HTC’s Straight Talk™ which allows for simplified conference calling and activation of the speakerphone by simply turning over the device. The HTC Tilt 2 also features a 3.2 megapixel camera.

HTC PURE
Leveraging HTC’s TouchFLO 3D experience, the all touch screen HTC PURE offers an advanced touch experience that is optimized for one-hand use, which further evolves the compact smartphone design. Incorporating a large, brilliant 3.2-inch WVGA touch screen, the HTC PURE is crafted to fit perfectly into the hand and accentuates one’s sense of style. With a crisp advanced five megapixel auto-focus camera with video capture, expandable memory, gravity sensor and an ambient light sensor, the HTC PURE brings many of the most sophisticated features to a broad consumer audience looking for the professional benefits of a smartphone, without sacrificing size, looks or functionality.

Pricing and Availability
The HTC PURE is available at AT&T retail stores nationwide and online at www.wireless.att.com for $149.99. The HTC Tilt 2, will be available in the following weeks for $299.99. (For the HTC PURE, pay $199.99 and receive $50 mail-in-rebate, for the HTC Tilt 2, pay $349.99 and receive a $50 mail-in-rebate. Two-year agreement on a minimum $69.99 plan required.)

Small business customers also can subscribe to AT&T’s new, industry-first BusinessTalk voice plans, which start at $60 a month for five users and 700 Anytime Minutes and can be expanded for $9.99 a line to accommodate up to 40 users and 20,000 Anytime Minutes. AT&T Music, AT&T Navigator, Video Share, Push-To-Talk and MobiTV all require separate monthly subscriptions.

Read the full release here.

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The XDA Developers have got the Touch Flo 3D 2.5 with a difference- the full screen mode. And it appears much faster, spacious and carefree. The experience is preferably for WVGA devices. Apart from a more pragmatic use of the Touch Flo 3D interface, it also gets the taskbar and the title bar open in case of any notification.

Here are some of the ‘over-and-above’ features:

• Automatic change to normal screen in level1 pages(music library,all contacts,clock,alarm) where u always need soft keys
  
• Automatic fullscreen on coming back to level 0
  
• Button to change fullscreen/normal screen
  
• High resolution full screen background
  
• Retractable slider bar

See the video below and download the cab from here.

 

 

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With WiMAX acting a nice competition to GSM and CDMA technologies, Samsung Mondi is here to prove its worth by making itself WiMAX enabled. But wait, its going to be cited only in three cities as of now-Vegas, Atlanta and Portland. The 4GB internal memory and 4.3’’ high resolution touchscreen device comes with 2G technology and is still high on expectations. See the Samsung’s official site for more of its attributes. [...]

Web Camera is an interesting app that lets you use your Windows Mobile device as a webcam as-well-as FTP camera. Here is the list of its features:

• Transforms your PDA or Smartphone to high-resolution web-camera.
• Use your PDA/Smartphone as microphone! Even through Wi-Fi!
• FTP-Camera feature. Transmit pictures directly from device on your FTP server.
• In any time and in any place you and your friends can see in browser what pictures transmit FTP-camera.
• You and your friend can see in any browser what picture transmit FTP-camera in real time from any place.
• Can work through any connection: USB ActiveSync, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS, 3G, LAN, WiMAX.
• Compatible with almost all modern Smartphones and PDAs (Windows Mobile 6.5 included).
• Can be used as web-camera in many programs: Skype, MSN Messager, Yahoo Messager, ICQ, Virtual Dub and many others.
• Can capture device screen and transmit video to Desktop PC.
• WebCamera Plus support English, Russian, German, Turkish, Norwegian, Romanian, Italian, French, Czech, Greek, Chinese (Taiwan), Japanese, Hungarian, Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish languages.

Although the application is bit pricey at $24.90, but if you need those features, there is no harm in giving its trial version a go before buying it. [...]