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•  HTC Sense Not Coming to T-Mobile G1 or myTouch 3G
• Sprint Testing HTC Hero, Developing Android WiMax Phone?
• HTC Hero Passes FCC, Could Be Headed To AT&T or Rogers

• Contest: Win a BlackBerry Tour Courtesy of CrackBerry.com!
• Verizon BlackBerry Tour Available for Pre Order
• Bolt Browser Beta 3 Released - Faster/Better Web Browsing on BlackBerry

• Nokia N97 NAM Firmware Update Available
• First Impressions of the Nokia N86

• Palm Closes Homebrew App Install by Email Loophole
• Palm Pre as Webserver is a Go
• Palm Pre Keyboard Tricks and Tips

• Apple releases iPhone 3.1 Beta and SDK to developers
• Original hacker unveils iPhone 3GS purplera1n jailbreak
• iPhone App Store Just Says No to Nudity — For Now?

• Malatesta reviews the HTC Snap on Sprint.
• Skype 3.0 out of beta.
• Skyfire updated, is still blocked by Hulu.

Happy Fourth of July to everybody (and a belated Canada Day, too). We fully intend on spending the rest of the weekend stuffing ourselves with round patties of beef and intestine-cased pork products, all washed down with copious amounts of watered-down fermented beverages.

But if you just have to get your smartphone news on, here's what we'd be working on if we weren't forcing ourselves to have fun:

• Along with the recent update to the Skyfire browser is the implementation of upgrade notifications. Huzzah!
• Canada's Telus is getting the HTC Snap and Touch Pro 2. [Mobilesyrup - via]
• Dear Microsoft: Please, no Windows Mobile commercials from Bobcat Goldthwait. We beg you. [Valleywag]
• Check out all of Microsoft's official Twitter accounts.
• Not sure why you'd want to, but a hack is out at XDA that lets you skin Kinoma Play.
• A new version of SKTools is out. [pocketnow]
• Don't like your Google Voice number? You can swap it for $10. That is, if you've gotten your invite in the first place. :(

Samsung has announced the pricing and (ballpark) availability dates for the Samsung Omnia II and Omnia Pro. European pricing and availability that is.

According to Unwired View the Samsung Omnia Pro will be available in Europe later this month at a cost of 499 Euro (about $700 US).

The Samsung Omnia II will be available in August with a price point of 549 Euro (about $770 US). Both European prices include the European Value Added Tax (VAT) and hopefully the final U.S. price will be lower. Toss in potential service provider contractual discounts and the prices may fall further.

Both the Omnia Pro and Omnia II will initially ship with Windows Mobile 6.1 but upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5.

The 1GHz Snapdragon-powered Toshiba TG01 is set for its big coming-out party in London next week, and we learn that it'll be available on the UK's Orange network. Price and actual release date aren't known. But whatever they want for that monster processor and 4.1-inch touchscreen, we'd gladly pay it.

Via coolsmartphone

Bad news for you T-Mobile fans waiting patiently for the HTC Touch Pro 2. TmoNews is citing an anonymous source in saying that release has been moved from July 22 to Aug. 12. Hey, you've waited this long. What's a couple more weeks?

TMN is still going with the July 8 launch date for the Dash 3G, as well as the $170 price point (ouch!) with a two-year contract.

That said, do remember that no actual release date has been stated by T-Mobile for either phone, so anything's still possible. Hang in there, folks.

There's still no sign of the Toshiba TG01 getting any love in the United States, but one of the first Snapdragon-powered phones is sure starting to make the rounds elsewhere. Already released in Japan as the T01A, and appearing in a few other nations, an official coming out party is scheduled for July 9 in London.

We're still not totally sold on the TG01's custom interface. And we want to scream every time we see a touchscreen-only phone with icons that are smaller than a fingertip. But we're desperately wanting that 1GHz Snapdragon processor on a phone released here in the United States.

Slashgear via Engadget