Patrick Kortendick

The HTC Touch Pro 2, which was announced earlier today, is coming more to light. The device will feature a Qualcomm® MSM7200A™ processor running at 528 MHz., with 512MB of ROM and 288MB of RAM. Slightly larger and heavier than the Fuze, it will have also have a tilt screen, with a 3.6″ 800x480px touch screen. Many of the other features have been present in the earlier devices, such as GPS, a 3.2MP camera, (now customizable) TF3D,  and the navigation wheel has been replaced by a new ‘zoom bar.’ Overall, the hardware is pretty similar to the Fuze, and there hasn’t been any improvements to the battery life. It seems that the updated software and features are the real selling point here. This is also the first device in the line with raised keys.

For the full specs sheet, check out HTC’s website.

See some short promotional videos after the break.

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Astraware has released a new title, Bubble Shuffle for the Pocket PC (among other platforms). See the press release below.

STAFFORDSHIRE, UK – February 6th 2009 – Astraware(R) – the Handmark(R) Games StudioTM has today released a fun new word game featuring ever-friendly, fishy host, Wordsworth Smartygills. Bubble ShuffleTM follows on from Bubble Babble in the ‘Bubble’ word game series.

Bubble Shuffle is a simple undersea-themed word-building game that challenges players to create words from a given set of bubble letters. Perfect for adults and children, the game begins with 4 letters to work from and increases over multiple levels to 7 letters. To progress from level to level players must create at least one word from all of the letters. Players can shuffle the bubbles as many times as they want, to help them find more words.

The game features 4 fun game modes – 2 timed, and 2 more relaxing untimed games, each with a variation on the basic gameplay. Wordsworth Smartygills guides you through how to play, and can provide hints and clues throughout the game just by tapping him. Bubble Shuffle includes 4 levels of difficulty, and advanced anagram-anglers are rewarded for finding more unusual and esoteric words, with the option of requiring rare words from the inbuilt extended dictionary!

Players can earn a collection of colorful seahorse pets for Wordsworth by various achievements, from reaching new difficulty levels to the challenge of finding all of the possible words within the time limit.

Bubble Shuffle is available for Palm OS(R), Windows Mobile(R), iPhoneTM and iPod(R) touch. For more information, visit http://www.astraware.com/bubbleshuffle.

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