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If you are in the market for a new business phone, the amount of options available can make the process of selecting the right one quite challenging. To make this is an easier process for you, our staff has gone through all of the latest business phones on the market. After hours of comparing and evaluating one phone after another, we are proud to present you with our list of the top 5 business phones of 2009:

#5 – HTC Touch Pro2

Price: $699.99 from Amazon

Strengths: Thanks to its Windows Mobile operating system, the HTC Touch Pro2 offers a long list of features specifically for business users, ranging from Microsoft Office Mobile Suite to real-time e-mail delivery. Using the phone is enjoyable thanks to its vibrant 3.6 inch touch screen with 480×800-pixel resolution.

Other notable features of the Touch Pro2 include a full physical keyboard, Wi-Fi, GPS navigation, and Bluetooth.

Weaknesses: Currently no 3G support in the US, large size, slow GPS and a high price tag.
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After a protracted “let’s be absolutely certain we’re in the clear” period, T-Mobile has gone ahead and lifted its self-imposed moratorium on Sidekick sales following that little meltdown you may have heard about. Oh, and there’s a bonus, too: they’re a little cheaper this time around. The Sidekick 2008 has dropped to $49.99 on contract while the top-of-the-line LX 2009 has shed $25 down to $149.99 on contract, so if you were looking for an excuse to live dangerously with your precious address book, this might be as good of a reason as any. Then again, what are the odds of lightning striking twice?

T-Mobile USA has recently made available Facebook and Twitter applications for Sidekick users. Of course the apps only work on select Sidekick models — it’s for the owners of the Sidekick Slide, Sidekick 2008 and Sidekick LX, including Tony Hawk Sidekick LX.

Price wise, the Facebook app is completely free, whereas Twitter incurs a $2 monthly charge. That’s [Twitter price] for non-Sidekick LX users, only — if you own the LX, you’ll get to use Twitter for free, too!

T-Mobile UK has announced the Huawei ‘Pulse’ coming in October for £179.99. Earlier Ben had noted rumblings that the Pulse may very well go for around 250 Euros… If you do the conversion of GBP to Euros, the £179.99 price in the UK would ring in around 200 Euros on the continent. At any rate, the new offering will be a pay-as-you-go, and runs Android OS… Pay-as-you-go and Android, I think that’s a first, no?

The T-Mobile Pulse will pack a 3.2MP camera with autofocus, GPS, WiFi, trackball for navi, SD card expansion slot, and a 3.5″ touchscreen. Not bad. The look of the device is quite nice as well. It looks to have a deep black finish, has a nice shine/glow to it, and from what I can tell it looks like it’s built to last. Of course, it’s always hard to tell until you get the thing in your hands, but if you’re a fan of Android in the UK… this one is definitely worth a look.

Stay tuned for more on this one. It’s going to be a great finish to the year for Android-lovers worldwide.

Followers, fans, and casual observers of  HTC alike all know that when the company launches a new landscape QWERTY model, it’s a big deal. In fact, it’s more than a big deal — it’s a Big Deal. Many describe it as the ultimate smartphone form factor, the perfect execution of everything a modern handset is capable of doing — and realistically, no company has as much experience or know-how at making powerhouse landscape QWERTY sliders than HTC does.

That’s why droves of subscribers on virtually every carrier are on the edge of their seats awaiting the Touch Pro2′s release. Whether you love, hate, or feel nothing but pure, unadulterated ambivalence toward Windows Mobile, it’s hard to argue that the Pro2 isn’t a gorgeous smartphone at a distance, and T-Mobile USA’s gently-tweaked version is no exception. Unless you’re desperate for SLR-quality photography (which you’re frankly not going to get regardless of what phone you buy), the spec sheet reads like a dream — an expansive 3.6-inch WVGA display, full QWERTY, tilt-up display, all the 3G and WiFi you could ever want, and HTC’s latest and greatest build of TouchFLO 3D constantly working to make sure that WinMo cleans up nice — but is it true love or just lipstick on a pig? Let’s have a look.

TeleNav has already launched its subscription turn-by-turn navigation service for the G1, so it stands to reason that official myTouch 3G support would be close behind — and sure enough, the company has announced that its GPS Navigator app will be available for download to T-Mobile‘s second Android device starting tomorrow, August 5. The app features all of the goodies that TeleNav users have come to know and love, including traffic and incident monitoring with automatic rerouting, gas prices, business information, and a choice between 2D and 3D maps; additionally, you’ve got automatic day / night coloration, carpool lane and tollroad avoidance, and speech recognition for destination input — a big plus when you’re on the road and you need to keep distractions to a minimum.

We’ve been playing with a cut of GPS Navigator on our myTouch recently, and it delivers a totally usable car navigation experience — a perfect complement to the comprehensive pedestrian capabilities of Google Maps. Most of the warnings from our G1-based review of the application carry over here — you need true GPS reception, not merely cellular triangulation, so your phone will need a view of the sky to have a shot at picking up satellites (this also means that getting a location lock is a more time-consuming process, though it typically didn’t take longer than a few seconds to do its thing). We’re not digging how the colored lines that convey traffic information on highways flash; we’d rather they just stayed a solid color, the way most GPS systems handle it. We also found that the menus are a little wonky — bringing your finger in contact with a menu item and swiping up or down to scroll would occasionally trigger the first item you touched, which ends up being a fairly annoying bug in practice. All told, though, if you can justify the expense, your $10 a month is going to net you a genuinely reasonable way to consolidate all of your help-me-I’m-lost needs — whether by foot or by car — into a single device.

T-Mobile UK has confirmed today that they’ve decided to go a slightly different route with the soon-to-be-released T-Mobile G1 Touch. The Android-powered HTC Hero was recently unveiled to much fanfare in the UK, and was  initially expected to be known as the T-Mobile G1 Touch. Now, it seems T-Mobile’s UK arm is going with the marginally less confusing T-Mobile G2 Touch moniker – presumably an attempt to further differentiate the G1 from the Hero.

The HTC Hero will come to market with HTC’s custom-made Sense UI overlaid on the Android OS. The widget-based UI has been well-received, to say the least, and could very well be a milestone moment for the Android platform. And, with a 528 Mhz processor, 5-megapixel camera, WiFi and 3G data tucked under that 3.2-inch 320 x 480 capacitance-based touchscreen display, the Hero’s hardware will no doubt impress.

We’re still looking to see the HTC Hero dropping on T-Mobile UK sometime in July. The T-Mobile G2 Touch will apparently be available for free when purchased with a new 18-month contract with at least a £40 monthly Flext tariff (with £225 of credit included).