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HTC has just announced that its coveted TouchFLO and Windows Mobile 6.1 equipped “Touch Dual” smartphone will be seeing US shores exclusively through Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile retail outlets. The phone will be sold unlocked.

“At Best Buy we are committed to providing customers with a wide selection of high-quality handsets,” said David Ryan, director of merchandising, Best Buy Mobile. “We look forward to adding the innovative HTC Touch Dual to our current lineup of unlocked phones.”

The Touch Dual will be among the first mobile devices to run Windows Mobile 6.1 in the US. With collaboration from Microsoft, HTC plans on extending the functionality of the Touch Dual through release updates—providing easy navigation, strong security, and support for Microsoft Office Mobile applications and System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008.

Highlights of the device includes: a 2.6-inch touchscreen display with TouchFLO technology, 2-megapixel camera, and its combinational use of a slide-out 20-key keyboard and touchscreen, which allows users to choose their preferred input method. The Dual Touch is a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) phone with HSDPA (850/1900Mhz) connectivity. The phone will also come with Live HTC Home featuring time and weather information, an application quick launcher, and one-touch ring tone settings.

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