HTC's touch slider handed a release date and official price

Early June is set to be a busy couple of weeks for mobile phone launches, with the Palm Pre going on sale on the 6th, the new iPhone expected to be announced on the 8th, and now the HTC Touch Pro2 smartphone given a June 12th release date.

eXpansys has updated its pre-order date for the Touch Pro2, with a sale price of £519.99. The phone features HTC's new TouchFLO 3D skin over Windows Mobile, seen on the 3.6-inch widescreen display. There's also HSDPA and GPS connectivity, and hardware-wise, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.

A 3.2-megapixel camera and microSD finish the Touch Pro2 off, which is very similar in spec to the recently-reviewed Touch Diamond2 from HTC.