HTC has surely raised the bar, as they say, in mobile internet and entertainment. The HTC Touch HD, which was leaked few days ago, is now official, and its most astonishing feature is the 3.8" touchscreen display with WVGA resolution (480x800 pixels).

If that wasn't enough, the Touch HD has a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus but no flash, a 3.5mm audio jack, 512MB internal memory, 288MB RAM, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, built-in A-GPS, HSDPA at 7.2mbps, HSPA, Qualcomm® MSM7201a™ 528 MHz CPU, runs on Windows Mobile 6.1, has the HTC TouchFLO 3D user interface, and only weighs 146g.

The phone supports microSD memory card but the battery capacity is a mere 1350mAh.

This will be the direct competitor of the BlackBerry Storm, and as you can see, the front housing is very similar.

The only reason this won't be my next phone is that it does not run on Symbian OS9.5, which I'm very much used to, as there is enormous variety of applications, games, themes, and of course, users.

Press release after the jump.

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We have just received clear and very revealing pictures of the upcoming HTC Touch HD, which might just make you forget about the Touch Diamond.

The phone looks almost exactly like the BlackBerry Thunder, and of that phone, we have a video published not long ago.

What we we do know about the Touch HD is that it runs on a Qualcomm 7201A CPU with 528MHz, 288MB of RAM, 512MB of ROM, 327MB internal memory, 480x800 pixels of resolution, and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR. By the looks of it, the display seems to be larger than 3.2", and the Touch FLO 3D is included, as well as 3G. Perhaps we can expect HSDPA and HSUPA as well.

Further details from the forum confirm that there should be a 5 megapixel camera with no flash, GPS, the dimensions are 115mm x 62.8mm x 12mm, microSD memory card slot, 1350mAh battery, 3.5mm audio jack, Quadband HSDPA/HSUPA.

The HTC Touch HD should be released by December this year, to make even time for Windows Mobile 7 devices. More pictures after the jump.

[via MoDaco, CrackBerry Forums, via the::unwired]

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