HTC Touch and LG Rumor

Sprint at a late-night event on Thursday has confirmed both the Palm Centro and a pair of new higher-end phones. The CDMA-based HTC Touch is real and will be more than just a switch to Sprint's network, according to the presentation. The touchscreen phone will double in processor speed to 400MHz and sport 128MB of RAM; although it may run only on Sprint's standard EVDO network when it launches, the new Touch will receive an upgrade to faster EVDO Revision A service and gain TeleNav GPS support in the process.

Software unique the Sprint version will also allow for more easily struck on-screen keys and should enable access to both Sprint's Internet music store as well as streaming media services. Costs were not ready for the early preview, though Sprint has said it will deliver the new HTC phone at the rumored November launch.

Equally on tap is a new phone dubbed the LG Rumor, Sprint says. The device should resemble a horizontal slider version of the fold-out LG enV (shown) with a single screen and a mail client reportedly improved over that of the enV, which ships only with Verizon. A 1.3-megapixel camera and EVDO will be standard when the Rumor launches later in the year.

Minor details were also revealed about the Sprint Airave, an in-home cell router that lets users make calls indoors and shares access either publicly or with up to 50 specific phones, and an adaptation of the Cradlepoint CTR-350, an EVDO-to-Wi-Fi bridge that takes the Internet access from a phone or modem and shares it with a local network. Prices for these and other devices have not been set. [via Gearlog]

By Electronista Staff