Carrier: T-Mobile
Retail Price: $329.99
Phone Price: $129.99
Hot Features: Soft Touch Navigation Pad, MOTOBLUR

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It’s no secret that Google and China have been undergoing negotiations (if you want to call it that) regarding censorship on the internet for some time now.

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HTC and T-Mobile threw down in NYC last night to celebrate the launch of the US version of the HD2. Kristi made it to the soiree and has some hands-on impressions of the phone (and the party) coming soon. Video of the device in action is, of course, on the way as well.

HD2 will be available starting March 24 for $199.99 with a two year contract from T-Mobile, and the carrier is touting the device as being “Larger Than Life” thanks to its whopping 4.3″ capacitive touch display. The official press release talks up the device as coming “ready with access to millions of eBooks, movies, television programs and more,” and I think I see a few Barnes and Noble, Blockbuster and mobiTV logos in the photos Kristi sent from the shindig. Along, of course, with shots of live bands and what looks to have been a larger than life bar.

More photos below. Video coming soon!

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Sprint is offering a new online tool that consumers will be able to use to test out phones before they purchase them.

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Worry not, DROID users - Android 2.1 is coming your way.

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Live from the HTC T-Mobile HD2 launch party in NYC, March 16, 2010. Hands-on with the HD2 and its massive 4.3″ capacitive touch display.

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I have to wonder if Eric Schmidt woke up yesterday morning and said “aw, heck, why not….let’s give the Nexus One to AT&T and Sprint as well.”

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I don’t know about you, but there’s nothing like a little mid-afternoon rumor to tickle my fancy.

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I honestly have no idea what’s going on. Literally, I’m so confused that I’m listening to Crosby, Stills & Nash’s “Southern Cross” over and over again, looking for an answer in soft rock harmonies and lyrics like,

“Whatever brought you and me / Cannot be forgotten.”

And I’m still befuddled.

Microsoft went on record this week at MIX10 saying that Windows Phone 7 Series won’t have cut and paste. And now it’s the dreamy guitar interlude again and I’m just lost in a daze.

“And we never failed to fail / It was the easiest thing to do”

What’s funny is that I didn’t intend to built a WP7S post around lame post-hippie song lyrics. But it’s working out kinda well, no?

See, the first lyric and the second lyric both reinforce the idea that Microsoft is really trying to pull an iPhone here, in all kinds of ways both good and bad. To wit:

Lock Down

Microsoft’s going for their version of Apple’s lock-down approach to mobile hardware/software integration. Since MSFT doesn’t actually make hardware, they can’t quite go all-in here, but they’re coming close: WP7S will only work on a handful of hardware “chasis” designs, apps will only be allowed in two resolutions (WVGA and, later on, HVGA) …

One-Tasking

Multitasking? Nope. Speaking of iPhone, it looks like Microsoft will be saving us from ourselves by not allowing true multitasking on WP7S. Funny, because WinMo 6 supports multitasking. But lots of blowhards (me) kinda hate WinMo 6 at this point. So maybe mono-tasking is the new multitasking, after all? I have no idea. I just know that Android and webOS fans - let alone those die-hard Symbian addicts - make fun of iPhoners to no end over the whole multitasking thing. So it makes … sense? … that Microsoft’s brand spanking new state-of-the-future-of-the-art OS won’t support multitasking. What’s great about this is that everyone and their cousin is now betting on iPhone OS 4.0 supporting multitasking when it likely debuts in a few months.

I get that multitasking can lead to severe battery life issues on a cell phone. But when you’re planning your big comeback and everyone’s talking about how multitasking is so modern and so just-what-I-wanted, how can you justify leaving it out altogether? Add some power management, add some clever UI for reminding users to kill background apps … add something! Don’t just cut it out entirely. Weren’t you the ones making fun of iPhone for the past three years for not multitasking? Weren’t you?

Appopriately enough, iTunes just shuffled me over to Pink Floyd’s “Brain Damage / Eclipse.” Seriously.

“The lunatic is on the grass