Could AT&T be preparing to launch a new flagship Android smartphone manufactured by Samsung? According to the exclusive image and information BGR received, Samsung’s working on a new QWERTY Slider device for launch on AT&T. Details are minimal at this point and we have no idea of the specs, pricing, or availability, but if it more »

There does not seem to be a name for this handset just yet, however it looks like Samsung will have a new “flagship” device out sometime in February of next year. As for features, just to begin, the device will be running Android 2.3 — Gingerbread. Furthermore it will have specs to include a 4.3 more »

Nokia has unveiled a new flagship phone during the recent Nokia World 2008 event — the N97, and according to Nokia it is the “world’s most advanced mobile computer.” So, just what is the N97 packing that will make it the most advanced? Well, it seems that Nokia has packed the N97 about as full as they could. To begin with, the N97 has a 3.5-inch touchscreen display with a (16:9) 640 x 360 resolution, a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard and an incredible 32GB of built-in memory with a microSD card slot for added expansion.

Other features of the N97 will include HSDPA, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, Bluetooth, a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and video capture, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a TV-out. The N97 will be running S60 5th Edition. With a nice overall feature set, the N97 also has the power to back it up, it will offer up to 320 minutes of 3G talk time and up to 400 hours of standby. Additionally it will also allow for up to 37 hours of music playback and 4.5 hours of video playback in an offline mode.

As for pricing and availability, the N97 is expected to retail for €550 (around $694 US) and will be shipping sometime in the first half of 2009.

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HTC fans can rejoice as the Touch Diamond has begun to show up a little earlier than expected at a handful of online retailers. Originally scheduled for an “early-June” release date, it seems these lucky few retailers were fortunate enough to get an early shipment, and if you are willing to shell out the rather more »

While we can all read the specs and look at the images and dream about how much we would like to get our hands on the Touch Diamond, but with the phone not yet available, and only having been announced in London, hands on time is at a minimum. It seems that HTC has taken that into consideration and provided quite a bit of material to check it out in action, courtesy of their YouTube channel.

First up we have the introduction:

As we expected, Tuesday has come and so has the announcement from HTC. They have officially unveiled the Touch Diamond, which is being referred to as their new flagship product, and judging from the specs it seems worthy of that title.

The Touch Diamond will feature a 2.8-inch touchscreen VGA quality display, 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera as well as a second VGA camera on the front, 256MB ROM/192MB RAM, 4GB of internal memory, integrated GPS, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and an accelerometer. The handset will be running Windows Mobile 6.1 and powered by a Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 MHz processor.

The Touch Diamond will also have TouchFLO 3D, which is aimed to make using your phone easier, by reacting “perfectly to your finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, browsing the web, and launching media.” With the combination of the HSDPA 7.2 connectivity, TouchFLO 3D and the built-in Opera browser with zoom-in capabilities HTC is claiming the Touch Diamond will offer an “online experience to rival a notebook computer.” In addition the Touch Diamond will also feature one-touch music playback, a built-in microphone, speaker, FM radio with RDS and both a pre-loaded YouTube and Google Maps application.

The Touch Diamond will first be available via Orange in Europe beginning in June, with Asia and the Middle East to follow later in this quarter and both Latin and North America to follow during the second half of 2008. At this time a price has not been announced.

Keep reading for some more images of the HTC Touch Diamond…