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Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC has announced its latest mobile phone/personal navigation device, the Touch Cruise. The Touch Cruise is basically an update of 2008's popular HTC Touch, with a more compact build and plenty of new features.

Most notable among the new features is HTC's Footprints application, which will make its debut on the Touch Cruise. Footprints allows the user to keep a detailed account of any places they visit or moments they have that are of particular import, be it a memorable restaurant, store or other location, a great photo moment, or any other of innumerable reasons. The app basically lets the user capture a "digital postcard" on their phone in the form of a picture accompanied by notes and audio clips. Footprints

2008 proved to be a good year for HTC, especially at the end with the October release of the Android powered G1 smartphone. Obviously HTC wants this success to continue and it looks like their 2009 lineup that someone leaked at PPCGeeks packs a pretty big punch - if you believe it is true, that is.

With at least 16 new smartphones in this lineup it looks like HTC will be giving Apple, Blackberry, Palm et al. a run for their money in 2009. It also seems that there will be phones for Sprint, Verizon and AT&T.

It's hard to tell much just from seeing pictures. It appears that they have a Tree line (my term, not theirs) that will compete with the Blackberry Bold. This includes the Willow, Cedar and Maple, which is described as a 3G Excalibur.

Next there is the Element line which consists of full QWERTY horizontal sliders and includes the Rhodium which will be sold by VZW and the Tungsten for Sprint. There are two more sliders that aren't

Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC today announced the S740, a follow up to the S730 but with the design of the Diamond, minus the touch screen.

The S740 has the back of the Diamond, with many angles that make shapes that appear reminiscent of, well, diamonds. It features a slide out QWERTY keyboard for quick messaging. It sports a 2.4 inch TFT-LCD screen with backlight LEDs and QVGA resolution. It runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard and has a 528 MHz processor and 256 MB RAM. It operates on HSDPA/WCDMA: 900/2100 MHz and

Handset manufacturer High Tech Computer (HTC) has been developing a mobile phone that will run on Google's Android software. Called the Dream, it could very well be the first available mobile device to run on the Android platform.

The Dream will have a large screen and a full QWERTY keyboard. It will measure around 5 x 3 inches and the keyboard will be underneath the screen that will either slide or swivel out. Like the iPhone, the