Is there room for another smartphone manufacturer?  Velocity Mobile certainly thinks so: its founders earned their stripes at Inventec, and now they’re planning a range of mobile devices that “engage and excite”, a tricky prospect, some might say, when you’re running Windows Mobile.  The two initial devices, announced at CTIA Wireless this week, are the QWERTY-blessed Velocity 111 and the VGA-touchscreen toting Velocity 103; both are quadband GSM and quadband HSDPA/HSUPA, have GPS, WiFi b/g and Bluetooth 2.0, as well as 2-megapixel cameras and TV/VGA out.

Running Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro, the 111 has a 320 x 240 QVGA touchscreen while the 103 has a 640 x 480 VGA touchscreen; both use the Qualcomm Mobile Station Modem MSM7201 chipset, have 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM and microSD expansion.

Availability is said to be Q2 for the Velocity 103 and Q3 for the Velocity 111; both will be sold SIM-free, as the company is yet to arrange distribution deals with carriers, and the prices are unknown beyond Velocity Mobile’s description of the pair as “low-cost”.