HTC has unveiled the HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa. Both devices offer easy access to Facebook with a dedicated Facebook button. They are powered by Android Gingerbread 2.3.3 and use the latest version of HTC Sense. When you make a phone call or receive a call, the screen shows your friend’s latest status and photos and if their birthday is coming up or not.

That fancy Facebook button is context-sensitive so if you’ve just taken a picture, you can push the button to upload it to Facebook. Pretty handy for you social butterflies. Want to let your friends know what you’re listening to? Just press the button while listening to music on the phone.

We have some leaked specs on the HTC Wildfire 2. It packs in a Qualcomm MSM 7227 600MHz processor, a 3.2″ TFT touchscreen display with 320 x 480 resolution, a 5-megapixel camera, 384MB RAM, a microSDHC memory card slot and Wi-Fi.

The rest of the specs are above for your perusal. Sounds like a good solid device. After all, the HTC Wildfire was a decent mid-range Android phone. Now all we need are some press shots and the cat will be completely out of the bag.

Best Buy has confirmed its HTC Thunderbolt pre-orders along with its exclusive access to the phone. The phone can be reserved in advance for a $50 deposit. Since Best Buy has a “national retail exclusive” on the Thunderbolt, it won’t have to compete with other third-party stores.

We still don’t have a ship date and the price still hasn’t been set by the carrier, but a February 14 ship date and a $250 contract price have both been leaked.

Everybody start singing AC/DC’s “thunderstuck” now. Best Buy stores around the nation are now accepting pre-orders for HTC’s Thunderbolt. We knew it wouldn’t be long and sure enough, the day has arrived. If you have the $50 necessary to put towards it, you better get in line.

Looks like the phone will be available for pickup on February 14th. Pick up one for that special someone and say Happy Valentines day. Are you getting one for yourself?

At last we have some dates on these two devices. One of Best Buy’s official Facebook pages have confirmed when the Motorola Xoom and HTC Thunderbolt will be arriving. Earlier insider leaks had the Xoom arriving on February 17th, but Best Buy is now promising to have the tablet on February 24th.

The other news regards HTC’s LTE-equipped 4.3-inche device, the Thunderbolt. That one will arriving on Valentine’s Day, a day after the similarly sized Inspire 4G hits AT&T. We don’t have long to wait now.

Verizon has hinted that the HTC Thunderbolt might arrive early. It reminded users that the iPhone is coming soon and also said that the Android-based 4G phone might come “sooner than expected.” No exact date was given.

Previous leaks from Verizon’s retail system have the Android flagship’s launch on February 14 and that could be the date Verizon is teasing, but it also might be moved up.

Once again Facebook has denied yet another rumor that a FB-branded handset is coming. There will be no facebook HTC device. Facebook addicts will just have to wait and hope.

Dan Rose, head of business development at the company, came forward with the following statement: “This is really just another example of a manufacturer who has taken our public APIs (application programming interfaces) and integrated them into their device in an interesting way. The rumors around there being something more to this HTC device are overblown.”

Last we heard, the official Facebook phone was just rumor. It was dismissed by Mark Zuckerberg himself after all. But that doesn’t mean that Facebook won’t license the brand to phone manufacturers. The latest rumors online suggest that they will do just that.

Rumor is that HTC will be unveiling two new Facebook smartphones at Mobile World Congress next month. These phones will feature the social network’s familiar color scheme and branding, with a modified version of Android built around and focusing on Facebook. One of the devices apparently has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, but we are short on other details.

Windows Phone 7 and Android have both been ported to the HTC HD2 in the past, but now they are both on the same device. The folks over at xda-developers have figured out a few ways to install both WP7 and Android on the HD2 while using the same SD card.

Thing is, as you might expect, none of the methods are easy, but that just means that if you do this you will be among the select few. If you want to try your hand at it, check it out here.

You know the drill, a new smartphone gets released and it then suffers an embarrassing teardown to satisfy our curiosity. So now some folks have taken apart the Windows Phone 7-powered HTC Surround, which features a Dolby surround stereo slide-out speaker and a kickstand.

If you are the type that likes the operating room, you can check out all of the details over at iFixit. And it should go without saying, but you should only teardown your device if you really know what you are doing.

Radio Shack has announced that the HTC Evo Shift 4G smartphone is now available for purchase in its stores. The Shift 4G was just unveiled officially at CES last week and the 4G smartphone will also work on the 3G network that Sprint operates.

Some features include a 3.6-inch touchscreen, slide out QWERTY keyboard, and a 5MP camera on the back that can record video in 720p resolution. The smartphone will also function as a 3G or 4G hotspot for up to eight devices.

John Garber, an employee at Club Halo in Atlanta, was shot outside his club, but don’t worry this story has a happy ending. Thanks to a bit of luck and his HTC Incredible, he is alive. The HTC Incredible was in his breast pocket and saved his life.

He will no doubt be an HTC fan for life. Though while his HTC took a bullet for him, some would say that the trade off might be radiation instead, since he had it in his breast pocket, but regardless he is glad he had it there.

It was only a matter of time before someone got their hands on the HTC EVO Shift 4G, and now it has happened. Some lucky guy out there has managed to get the device ahead of the official announcement. It looks like a close relative to the EVO 4G, but with a QWERTY keyboard, lower-resolution 5-megapixel camera and a smaller display.

We don’t see a front-facing camera though, so I guess you can forget video chat. Even so, looks great.

The full specifications have been revealed for the new HTC Thunderbolt 4G LTE, which includes a Qualcomm MSM8960 dual-core processor 1.2 GHz. This should be taken with a grain of salt since the actual processor mentioned still has not been released by Qualcomm, but the specs give you an idea of what to expect with this handset.

A leaked screen shot also shows that the HTC Thunderbolt 4G LTE might not just be restricted to Verizon and in Europe, O2 and Vodafone could be offering it soon as well. Below are the reported specs.

HTC’s HD2 Windows Mobile phone has been a popular device for Android ports and now the Dark Forces Team’s MAGLDR 1.09 might make things easier for Android fans. The program lets Android builds be flashed directly to the NAND ROM, which is where the stock Windows Mobile build normally resides.

Current Android ports require a WinCE-based bootloader to run. MAGLDR should be released to the public in just a few days time and Windows Phone 7 should be able to be ported to the HD2 using this tool as well.