The sweet Apple iPhone spawned a whole host of me too devices that looked to cash in on the ground breaking touch screen navigation Apple introduced. HTC was one of the players that jumped into touch in a big way.

HTC announced that its HTC Touch Dual handset would be coming to the U.S. this quarter and would be powered by the new Windows Mobile 6.1 OS. HTC says that Best Buy will be the first retailer to offer the HTC Touch Dual device.

Features of the handset include TouchFLO technology, a slide out 20-key keyboard for dialing, text and email. The device will feature Office Mobile or documents on the go and Outlook for email. A 2MP camera will capture images or photos and the device will operate on 850/900/1800/1900 MHz networks.

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