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The Android-powered T-Mobile G1 may be getting all the ink (even here), but Taiwanese phone maker HTC makes other phones. Coming to a Sprint store near you on October 19, three days before the G1, is HTC's Touch Pro ($299.99 with a two-year contract), the third of its Touch-series touchscreen phones.

The Pro is an expanded version of the recent HTC Touch Diamond. Both share a 2.8-inch touchscreen, a 3.2 MP camera with auto focus and a flash, an Opera Web browser, WiFi connectivity, a direct link to YouTube, GPS, a sensor that shifts the screen image from portrait to landscape and vice versa simply by tilting the phone, access to Sprint's streaming TV services, and both text and email capabilities. Both also employ HTC's TouchFLO 3D pan-and-zoom touch navigation control.

But this Touch is a professional model, which means it packs more business-specific applications, including the ability to read and edit Microsoft Office documents. Physically, the Pro adds a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a microSD card slot (a 1 GB card is included), and a business card scanner application.

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