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According to the latest unconfirmed news, the HTC Leo could be launching as the HTC HD2, which could make it the true successor to the almighty HTC Touch HD. This could potentially be crushing my dreams of the HTC Touch HD2 running Android. The picture above also shows us that the large 4.3-inch multi-touchscreen capacitive display will be attracting your oily fingerprints.

[Engadget Mobile]

Yesterday morning, Ai.rs got the scoop on new pictures and a new video preview of the HTC Leo. Now they are saying that the HTC Leo will have a built-in digital compass, which is a great addition. This phone is definitely the WinMo handset to get - if you're into WinMo at least a little bit.

[WMPowerUser]

There's not much left to say here, but the HTC Leo really does make the HTC Touch Diamond 2 look puny to say the least. The Leo has a simplistic design on the front since the 4.3-inch multi-touchscreen capacitive WVGA display takes up almost all of the room on the front - it's almost borderless. Anyways, check out the Ai.rs blog here, because they have the phone in their possession right now. Looks like WinMo 6.5 will really have multitouch support built-in which is amazing.

Update: Make sure to scroll down just a bit more because there's now a video preview of the HTC Leo - thanks to Ai.rs blog and WMPowerUser.



[WMPowerUSer]

According to this video below, the HTC Leo / Firestone will have a multi-touchscreen display. Now, this is obviously unconfirmed since I'm pretty sure we were unaware that Windows Mobile 6.5 will have multi-touchscreen capabilities, but hey, it'll be great if it does. Take a look at the ever-so-exciting video below.



[Gizmodo, WMPowerUser]

We know that the HTC Whitestone (right side) is coming to Verizon and it will reportedly hit the US carrier in Q4 (September / October) of this year. The Whitestone is similar to the HTC Touch Diamond 2, but it does have some different features. The Whitestone will have: a 3.6-inch WVGA touchscreen display, a 5MP AF camera, aGPS support, 512MB of ROM, 256MB of RAM, a 528MHz Qualcomm CPU, and WinMo 6.1 on-board - possibly WinMo 6.5 when it gets released though.

Telstra Australia will be launching the HTC Leo / Firestone. We don't know the price or when it will launch, so just wait for it.

HTC Whitestone To Verizon: WMPowerUser
HTC Leo To Telstra Australia: WMPowerUser

There's not much to say here, you have the HTC Leo / Firestone on the left side and the Touch Pro 2 on the right side. The HTC Leo has: a 4.3-inch touchscreen display with a 480 x 800 resolution, a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, a 5MP camera with an LED flash, 320MB of RAM, 512MB of ROM, a microSD card slot, and it's clearly running Windows Mobile 6.5.

Update: GSM Arena scooped up a bit more photos of the HTC Leo / Firestone. Just like we heard back saw in mid-August this real unit has "HTC Pro Three" on the back. Keep in mind that this could be just a codename. The 5MP camera is also unconfirmed at the time.

[Engadget Mobile, Slash Gear]

Apparently, the HTC Leo / Firestone seems to be somewhat confirmed after Cell Passion located the Leo's user agent profile. The profile says that the Leo will have a 480 x 800 resolution touchscreen, two soft keys, Windows Mobile, and Internet Explorer Mobile 6. We'll just have to wait for more detail.

[Cell Passion]

Above and below are even newer renders of the HTC Leo / Firestone. There's nothing much to say here, it just looks damn sexy. Three days ago, we got a similar picture, but this time we have a picture of what the back of this mammoth handset could look like. Having a 4.3-inch touchscreen display, it'll take the 4.1-inch Toshiba TG01 off the top of the throne for the largest display on a mobile phone - I rhymed there. But, this handset will be a little bit thicker at 11mm - the TG01 is just 9.9mm thin. According to the rumours, this handset will be available in October. If so, I could be getting this since my mom could be headed to the Philippines later this year.

[Unwired View]

I'm sure you haven't forgotten about the mammoth HTC Leo / Firestone yet - it was good enough to make my top 10 phone list. It looks like this is a new render of what it will look like. It looks plain, but it's still sexy. The specs we've heard about before were pretty accurate, so we're seeing: a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen display with a 480 x 800 resolution, a Snpadragon MSM 8250 1GHz CPU, 512MB of ROM, a microSD card slot, 320MB of RAM, WiFi, aGPS support, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, GSM/EDGE/HSDPA support, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Before today, we heard that this handset would have a 5MP sensor, but today we're hearing that it will actually have an 8MP AF camera.

[WMPowerUser]

This photo is a rendered image of the upcoming HTC Leo aka Firestone. It looks similar to the photo of the Firestone that was pushed out in late June. I don't know what's with the speaker on the front and this handset also doesn't look 11mm thin, which is what we found out two days ago. You can check out the spec sheet here if you'd like. The Firestone / Leo is also expected to have a 1,230 mAh battery and aGPS support.

[Slash Gear]

Two days ago, I briefly talked about four HTC upcoming smartphones. Well today it looks like we got the scoop and specs on the HTC Leo. The picture above says it all, the HTC Leo has: a gigantic 4.3-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen display, a Qualcomm MSM8250 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, quad-band GSM/EDGE / dual-band 900/2100MHz HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, aGPS, a 5MP AF camera with a dual-LED flash, 320MB of RAM, a 3.5mm headphone jack, 512MB of internal memory, and a microSD card slot. This handset is only codenamed "Leo" so keep that in mind. It's also running WinMo 6.5, so it looks like it'll get a release later this year.

Our first reports about the HTC Leo mentioned that it would have two displays, but it doesn't look like it'll have 2 displays anymore. Either that or it hasn't been outlined yet. But, this looks like a full-spec sheet to me.

Update on July 22nd: According to Gizmodo, the HTC Leo could actually be the HTC Firestone. I've actually been hearing a ton of rumours about it, so I figured that I might as well post about it. The specs remain accurate.

[Slash Gear]

Following up on the HTC Dawn from this morning, it looks like HTC could be preparing more smartphones for the future. The HTC Leo, Click, Mega, and Rome smartphones are probably all just codenames because they would sound pretty dumb as actual smartphone names. Anyways, the HTC Leo looks like it could be a smartphone with two displays, a WVGA (480 x 800 resolution) internal and a QVGA external. The Leo is expected to support OpenGL 2.0 and could have a Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU - similar to the Toshiba TG01. Unwired View points out that this smartphone could be similar to the HTC Omni (mock-up picture above) which was scheduled to be released a few years ago.

The HTC Click is another smartphone that could be actually be classified as an "entry-level" Android-based handset. Unfortunately, there are absolutely no details on the HTC Mega or the HTC Rome. Hopefully, we'll know more details about all four of these handsets / smartphones in the near future.

[Unwired View]

Facebook will be changing their Home page layout. When i logged on today, i actually got a message saying that they will be changing the Home page layout, so it's good to see that Facebook is keeping its users up-to-date. This could be Facebook's answer to Twitter. I have a Twitter account, but i still don't know exactly what i can use it for. Twitter is basically made up of Facebook statuses and Facebook inboxes. Nothing else. Maybe i'm using it wrong or something, but i don't really see the point as to why its population is growing. I also don't know why this would be Facebook's "shot" at Twitter because Twitter is way behind Facebook in almost every aspect. If anything, Twitter should be trying to take Facebook off of it's throne. All of that said, Facebook has decided to take off the 5,000 friend limit and they've changed the overall layout of the home page. There is also word that instead of updating your home page about every 10 minutes, it will do so at a much faster pace (live updates?). If you want to read more about Facebook's changes, go to the links below.

Go Canada! RIM has released the app store for their Blackberries. It is called... wait for it... BlackBerry App World. Who needs an App Store or an Android Market when you've got the world. +1 RIM.

Just in case you cared about Windows Vista [still], Microsoft has released the Vista SP2 RC to the public. Everyone just do yourself a favour and get your hands on the Windows 7 beta because Vista is officially dead.

Some of HTC's upcoming phones have been revealed. Partially, that is. Some new leaks have revealed some new specs for 5 devices / phones, including: Whitestone, Firestone (supposed HTC Touch HD successor), Thor (or Thoth or Athena 2), Twin and Maple. Keep in mind that [i think] these are just codenames. Anyways, let's start it off with the Whitestone. This phone will have a 3.6-inch touchscreen, a Qualcomm 7600 528MHz processor, a 5MP camera and will run on WinMo 6.1 Pro (sucks). This will be available in September through Verizon. Next up is the Firestone which will have a 3.6-inch touchscreen, a Qualcomm 8250 600MHz processor, an 8MP camera and will run on WinMo 6.5 which is a slight improvement. This phone is said to be the HTC Touch HD successor, but i still prefer the Touch HD's looks over this one. This phone will be available in September also, but the carrier is unknown. The next device is the Thor. I call it a device because i'm not sure if it is a phone, seeing how it supposedly has a 4.8-inch touchscreen (could be a typo from Boy Genius Reports). Anyways, it has a Qualcomm 8250 1GHz processor, a 5MP camera and will also run on WinMo 6.5. Again, it will also be released in September, but the carrier is unknown. The Twin looks like it is the most basic phone out of all of the aforementioned ones. The Twin will have a VGA display (size unknown), a Qualcomm 7501A 528MHz processor and a 3.2 MP camera. Availability is unknown. The last phone on the list is the Maple which i've already talked about before. It will have a 2.4-inch screen, a Qualcomm 7228 528MHz processor, 2MP camera and will run on WinMo 6.1. It is scheduled to be released in May. This phone could also have the QWERTY keypad and "Inner Circle" that was also mentioned in my other post.

Facebook Redesigning Home Page (and picture): http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/04/facebooks-response-to-twitter/
Facbook Changes The Home Page: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/03/04/facebook-relaunching-home-page-news-feed-going-live-next-wednesday/
RIM's App Store (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/rim-names-its-app-store-blackberry-app-world/
Windows Vista SP2 RC: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2224
HTC's Lineup Partially Revealed (and picture): http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/03/04/htcs-2009-line-up-gets-specd/
HTC Firestone picture): http://i.gizmodo.com/5164375/htcs-2009-lineup-leaked-includes-touch-hd-successor