HTC Touch Pro2 (Tilt 2) on AT&T Starting with October 18

HTC Touch Pro2, the flagship Windows Mobile-powered mobile phone the Taiwanese handset maker HTC Corporation launched on the market this year, is already available in the United States via three of the country's major wireless carriers, including T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon, which launched the device recently exactly in this order.

The fourth major carrier in the US, AT&T, has been already rumored to plan adding the handset to its offering too, and now a few more details on this have emerged into the wild, including the fact that the carrier might release the HTC Touch Pro2 as soon as October 18. As many of you might already know, the handset is expected to land on AT&T's airwaves as Tilt 2.

While the other three mobile phone operators rushed to unleash the device on their networks, it seems that AT&T delayed the launch on purpose, so as to make it available with Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system right from the start. The device already rocks on the WinMo 6.1 area, and should prove a great option too when packed with WM 6.5.

Nothing is official for the time being, yet BGR says that the launch date should be marked in our calendars. Moreover, it also points towards the fact that Tilt 2 was originally expected to become available starting with October 6, the very same day other Windows phones would also hit the market, yet a series of bugs determined the carrier to push it back a little.

For what it's worth, the HTC Touch Pro2 seems set to soon become one Windows Mobile handset that will be available on the US market via all four major carriers in the country. No details on what price it might feature with AT&T, but we hope that it won't be as high as the one Sprint and T-Mobile offer it for. The $199 price tag on Verizon seems more attractive, one should agree. Watch this space for more updates on this.