MWC 09: HTC announcements live

10.43: HTC Touch Pro II. HTC is including a 3.6-inch WVGA display. There's a proximity sensor and slide and tilt display. There's a spacious keyboard, two speakers, two microphones for noise cancellation. If you're reading an email, there's a call button so you can talk to the person who sent you the email instantly. If there are multiple people cc'd on the email, you can conference call. You can turn the phone over to make it into a conference call bridge with two speakers.

10.39: People centric communcation. If you want to get in contact with someone, you enter the phonebook and slide the tab to get threaded SMS communication. You can slide again to get to email conversation, then slide again to get phonecall information. You don't have to launch any applications to get this information.

10.38: Push internet pops up again. You can select your favourite websites and have the content pushed to your devce at predefined times.

10.36: HTC Touch Diamond II. It continues the tradition of great design, with a 3.2-inch WVGA screen. With one hand you can zoom into the browser or increase the font size on emails. HTC Touch Diamond II features a 5-megapixel camera and the battery life has been improved by 50 per cent.

10.32: John Wang, CMO of HTC: HTC is changing expectations of devices. GPS - HTC Footprints. GPS phones are not about GPS but the chronicles of your life. You can take a photo of your favourite locations, add details then add to your footprints folder. You can then flip through them to find your favourite places.

10.31: HTC is today introducing push internet. How we make mobile internet smarter and easy.

10.26: The press conference has started, filled to the brim. Apparently HTC has a very exciting product to launch today...People are changing the way they use their phone, to interact and entertain; to get their life more organised. 2008 was an exciting year for HTC with TouchFLO, and the launch of the T-Mobile G1, the first Android phone.