What is it with HTC and doing triple announcements on Tuesdays? Anyway, today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona they announced three new devices: Desire, Legend and HD mini. The Desire is the "Nexus One with Sense" or "HD2 with Android" that everyone has been waiting for (unsurirpsingly, apparently "all key networks in all key countries" want to sell it). The Legend is an upgrade to the Hero, with an aluminium unibody (unlike the Touch Diamond2, announced at MWC last year, the Legend is more stylish than its predecessor). The HD mini is, as the name implies, a small HD2 - it's the only one of the three to run Windows Mobile (6.5.3, I believe), although I must point out that I have an issue with them still calling it HD (it implies that their "HD" line is more of a design style than anything to do with the screen quality). Anyway, videos of the new devices (and of the HTC Smart) were uploaded today - check them out:

HTC Desire


HTC Legend


HTC HD mini


HTC Smart


In other news, Windows Phone 7 Series (Windows Mobile 7, to those familiar with Windows Mobile) was announced yesterday. It's definitely the change that Microsoft needed (a complete rewrite of the OS and big changes to key concepts), but I'm not sure that I'm a fan - I do want my phone to be a PC to an extent. What do you think?

An interesting series of videos from YouTube is below - they demonstrate various parts of the designing and manufacturing process for the Nexus One (including a rare peek inside HTC's manufacturing facility). Presumably the process is fairly similar for many of HTC's phones.

I just did a brief bit of digging to see if I could find any technical details about some of HTC's more interesting rumored/leaked upcoming devices on HTCMMS.com.tw, and I did.

- HTC Bravo
- HTC Dragon
- HTC/Google Nexus One

I also found the Leo 1.5, which is presumably the American version of the HD2. Strangely, the Nexus One claims to have a physical phone keypad and a landscape screen by default. Also, the Dragon claims to have a HVGA screen whereas the Bravo and Nexus One have WVGA screens. Anyway, have a look at the data yourself.

It's official here, here and here. More will follow soon...

[Edit: 15:24 WEST, 07/10/2009]
I said more will follow soon, so here is more:

The specs are equal to the best non-stupid rumors - things like the digital compass, multi-touch and micro-USB are all there. In fact, there was even one nice surprise that wasn't predicted by the rumors - it will have 448MB of RAM rather than the 320MB seen on pre-production models. There has been no mention of a Windows Mobile 7 upgrade yet, but I wouldn't expect there to be so soon after the launch of Windows Mobile 6.5. Also, I'd like to point out that HTC has not ditched TouchFLO 3D as some websites are saying - TouchFLO 3D is a part of HTC Sense, which the HD2 does come with. Also, the battery (1230mAh) was slightly worrying (I know that Snapdragon is more power efficient than older Qualcomm stuff, but it was hard to tell how much more efficient - the TG01 was the only device available, with Snapdragon), but apparently it has quite a decent life - it's certainly officially significantly better than the Touch Diamond (I should point out that batteries get worse as they age and these days my Touch Diamond will only last for a day).

I have yet more exclusive news on the HTC HD2: the HTC HD2 will be coming to O2 UK, T-Mobile and Vodafone.

Proof
O2: I have two copies of the O2 brochure featuring the HTC HD2 that is all over the internet now - you can pick your own copy up from an O2 store if you're still unconvinced.
T-Mobile: I've found a T-Mobile version of the information about the HTC HD2 on HTCMMS.com.tw: http://www.htcmms.com.tw/tmo/HTC_HD2-1.0.xml
Vodafone: I've found a Vodafone version of the information about the HTC HD2 on HTCMMS.com.tw: http://www.htcmms.com.tw/voda/HTC_HD2-1.0.xml

For more explanation about HTCMMS.com.tw, see my previous post about the HTC HD2. If you're wondering why the O2 version isn't on HTCMMS.com, it may well be there - I just haven't yet guessed its URL. Also, for the same reason, I don't know whether or not it will be available on Orange - hopefully it will, as they had its predecessor, the Touch HD.

Interesting note
Check out the modification dates of the data for the T-Mobile and Vodafone versions of the HD2 - the Vodafone version was last modified all the way back on the 2nd of September, whereas the T-Mobile version was modified on the 24th of September. The data for the unlocked version was last modified on the 21st of August and the initial data on the hardware (when it was known as the HTC Leo) was last modified on the 18th of June. The earlier dates aren't interesting, but it is interesting that the T-Mobile version has apparently only come about recently - perhaps because, having finally stopped O2's rebranding of their devices, HTC refused to let T-Mobile sell the HD2 if they were going to rebrand it and T-Mobile finally gave in because they need the HD2 to compete with the other networks.

Finally, this is personal speculation, but the sheer amount of information about the HD2 on the internet now and the rapidly approaching release date (which has, most likely, been delayed by a few weeks) makes me suspect that the HD2 will be announced this week - certainly within the next two weeks (as I said somewhere at some point, HTC won't/can't spoil the launch of WM6.5 by announcing a potentially WM7-compatible device).