Both are runing on Windows Mobile 5.0 platform

Jan 24, 2006 15:08 GMT  ·  By

The American division of T-Mobile announced that it will start sales of the T-Mobile MDA Handheld (HTC Wizard) and T-mobile SDA Smartphone (HTC Tornado). T-mobile stated on its site that the release will take place in February.

The HTC Wizard is running on the Pocket PC version of Windows Mobile 5.0 Operating System. It features a bar form-factor and a sliding-from-the-side full QWERTY keyboard. In addition, the quad-band GSM phone features GPRS and EDGE technology for high data transfers, a QVGA 65k color display and a 1.3 megapixel camera. It also offers messaging options, from simple text to powerful picture and video.

The HTC Tornado is a quad-band GSM Smartphone, operating on Windows Mobile 5.0 (Magneto). The smartphone has a super-sleek design and features a QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) 65k color TFT display and a 1.3 megapixel camera. It also includes high-speed data transfer EDGE and WiFi support.

There is no word about the price or availability yet, but these should be announced sometime soon.