Today Orange announced that they will be offering the HTC Touch HD exclusively on the Orange network in the UK starting in early November. The Touch HD though will be available to other carriers in 2009. This highly anticipated phone is such a desirable handset and will give Orange a nice boost.

The Touch HD boasts an extensive 3.8 inch, high resolution, Widescreen WVGA touch-screen that will deliver an unrivaled viewing experience when using Orange’s mobile TV service. Forget carrying your camera with you, with the Touch HD’s 5 megapixel auto focus camera you will always have one with you.

Director of Devices for Orange UK, Francois Mahieu, said: “We are very pleased to launch this state of the art mobile internet device exclusively on the Orange network. It is a great phone but also a wonderful multimedia handset which paves the way to even more innovations from Orange next year in the mobile internet space. The HTC Touch HD on Orange will be the must have device this Christmas for the person that wants it all”.

The phone is available through any Orange retail location or online at http://www.orange.co.uk. The HTC Touch HD will be offered on the Orange UK network until 2009 from £79.99 on an 18 month, £40 per month contact *Package includes inclusive option of anytime mobile internet browsing (subject to 250Mb per month).

Specifications:

Key Touch HDTM product specifications:
• Size: 115 x 62.8 x 12 mm
• Weight: 146.4 grams/5.164 oz with battery
• Connectivity: Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHzWCDMA / HSPA: 900/2100MHz.
• Software/Operating system: HTC TouchFLO 3D with Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
• Display: 3.8 inch Wide Screen VGA screen (480 x 800 WVGA)
• Camera: 5.0 megapixel with auto focus – Second Camera: VGA
• Internal memory: 512 MB flash; 288 MB RAM
• Memory card: microSD™ memory card (SDHC™ capable)
• WLAN: 802.11b/g
• Bluetooth®: 2.0 with EDR
• GPS: GPS/AGPS
• Interface: HTC ExtUSB™ (mini-USB and audio jack in one; USB 2.0 High-Speed)
• Battery: 1350 mAh
• Talk time: WCDMA: Up to 390 minutes*** / GSM: Up to 310 minutes***
• Standby time: WCDMA: Up to 450 hours*** / GSM: Up to 390 hours***
• Chipset: Qualcomm® MSM7201aâ„¢ 528 MHz

[Via Orange]