AI & Cloud

Cellular News notes that HTC has announced the introduction of the HTC S740, a slim smartphone that provides a combination of a traditional 12-key phone design with HTC's sliding QWERTY keyboard. The HTC S740 will be available across Europe from September 2008.

A US website dedicated to the Android mobile operating system has released further details and images of the HTC Dream, reportedly the first phone based on Google's platform set for launch by T-Mobile USA before the end of the year.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that T-Mobile USA will sell the hotly anticipated HTC Dream - the first device based on Google's Android mobile operating system - for US$199 on a contract.

TelecomPaper notes that HTC has unveiled three new touchscreen mobile phones.

Reuters reports that Google is in "the final stages" of launching the first phone based on its Android operating system, widely tipped to be the HTC Dream scheduled for launch on September 23 via T-Mobile USA.

Senior executives from T-Mobile, Google and HTC officially launched the 'G1' - the first device based on Google's Android mobile operating system - at an event in New York earlier today.

Telecompaper notes that UK-based European mobile broadband provider The Cloud has closed a €15 million funding round from current investors (€7.25 million), a new Norwegian investor Ferd Venture (€7.5 million) and GP Bullhound (€0.3 million).