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Verizon is expected to launch LG's mostly touch-screen Windows Mobile smartphone, the Prada, sometime this summer as part of its answer to AT&T's upcoming iPhone onslaught. The iPhone's got MultiTouch Prada an interface technology called ClearPad to make the most of its touch screen.

Now it appears Verizon (and perhaps Sprint) may be adding another weapon to its anti-iPhone arsenal, a CDMA edition of HTC's Touch smartphone; itself based on HTC's own advanced touch-screen interface for fingertip control and screen navigation, TouchFLO. Called the HTC Vogue, the CDMA version of the Touch is supposed to include many of the same features as the GSM edition, plus a few more added in for good measure.

For instance, while the GSM-based Touch tops out at GSM technology's 2.5G EDGE data transfer standard, Vogue will support CMDA carriers' much faster 3G EV-DO Rev.A standard. Vogue will also have a GPS radio, which the Touch lacks, and twice as much RAM; 128MB to the Touch's 64MB.

Touch is already available in Europe and is set to hit North America sometime in the fall. There's still no word as to when the Vogue will become available or exactly from whom. Verizon and Sprint are prime candidates, of course, as they're the two largest CDMA/EV-DO mobile operators in the U.S.

More on Touch/Vogue
The Touch/Vogue, as with the LG Prada, is a Windows Mobile 6 Professional (formally known as Pocket PC Phone) smartphone. With TouchFLO, it is capable of recognizing and responding to the sweep of a finger across the screen, according to HTC. The smartphone is even supposed to be intelligent enough to distinguish between finger and stylus input.

You sweep your fingers across the display to launch an animated, three-dimensional interface comprising three screens: Contacts, Media and Applications. The interface can be spun by swiping a finger right or left across the display, providing what appears to be easier access to these features for consumers than a normal Windows Mobile interface would.

TouchFLO also delivers finger touch scrolling and browsing of Web pages, documents, messages and contact lists.

As a Windows Mobile Professional device, the HTC Touch/Vogue will offer Outlook Mobile, Office Mobile for editing, the ability to read and edit native Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, Pocket Internet Explorer and Windows Live. With it, you can view HTML-formatted e-mail and push e-mail in an Exchange environment.

There's a 2 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 128MB of ROM and a microSD slot for extra storage. Its 2.8-inch display sports a 240 x 320 pixel (QVGA) resolution and supports 65,536 colors.

The device measures 3.9 x 2.3 x 0.5 inches (99.9 x 58 x 13.9 millimeters) and weighs 3.9 ounces (112 grams).