HTC Touch HD will be available in the UK starting early November, exclusively through Orange.

This premium multimedia enhanced device features an extensive 3.8 inch, high resolution, widescreen WVGA touchscreen, 5 megapixel auto focus camera, Orange’s high speed data network (3G+), Orange’s mobile TV service, beautiful TouchFLO 3D user interface, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack,

The HTC Touch HD is exclusive on the Orange UK network until 2009 for £79.99 on an 18-month contract, £40 per month contract.

HTC, the Taiwan-based manufacturer of Windows Mobile handsets, has just released a short video of the new Touch HD.

HTC Touch HD’s features include: quad-band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz), dual-band HSDPA connectivity (900 / 2100 MHz), a 3.8-inch TFT touchscreen display with a WVGA resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, TouchFLO 3D User Interface, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, Wi-Fi, GPS navigation, a 5 Megapixel autofocus camera, accelerometer, a 3.5mm headset jack, YouTube dedicated player, Pocket Office and extendable memory. The touchscreen smartphone measures 115 x 63 x 12 millimeters.

The Pocket PC should be available before the end of 2008. The retail price was not unveiled.

HTC Touch HD video walk-through:

HTC has gone official with its Touch HD Pocket PC, a multimedia phone that brings more features than the Touch Diamond.

Measuring 115 x 62.8 x 12 millimeters and weighing 146.5 grams, the Touch HD brings the following features: a 3.8 inch TFT touchscreen display with a Wide-VGA (WVGA) resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, a 5 Megapixel auto focus camera, quad-band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) with GPRS and EDGE, dual-band HSDPA connectivity (900 / 2100 MHz) for data transfer speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps, a 3.5mm audio jack, HTC TouchFLO 3D interface to cover Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.1, a 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM720 processor, Wi-Fi, GPS, A-GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, 512 MB of Flash memory, 288 MB of RAM and a slot for microSD or microSDHC cards.

The Pocket PC brings a 1350 mAh battery which should be able to last up to 390 minutes in talk-time mode or up to 450 hours in stand-by.

The price of HTC Touch HD is not known, for the moment, it should be available in the last quarter of 2008, first via major European carriers.