HTC expands WinMo touch market with Cruise

Yesterday, HTC officially unveiled the updated Touch Cruise that had leaked to the Web as "Lolita." Pushed more as an update rather than a full-blown new phone, the new Touch Cruise features many of the same features found in AT&T's Fuze, and the previous Cruise model.

Connectivity is WCDMA/HSPA: 900/2100 MHz, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, and then there's the requisite 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, and GPS/A-GPS. The operating system is once again Windows Mobile 6.1 with HTC's TouchFlo interface, but the noteworthy inclusion this time is the new HTC Footprints.

Footprints is a geo-tagging application that allows pictures, notes, and audio clips to be assigned to a set of GPS coordinates and saved as a "postcard." The device is expected to be launched globally in the Spring and cost between $500-600 unlocked.