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Sprint, the carrier-home for HTC Touch Diamond, will soon add another HTC touch-screen model to its smartphone lineup, the Touch Pro. The mobile operator announced today that it'll launch the advanced Windows Mobile 6.1 Touch Pro on October 26th for $300 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate.

As with the Touch Diamond, the Touch Pro sports a new, enhanced edition of the HTC's touch screen interface, which runs on top of Windows Mobile. Called TouchFLO 3D, the interface is animated to provide quicker and easier access services and features.

The HTC Touch Pro is a business-focused smartphone—like Sprint's older HTC Mogul model, which it will likely replace. It includes a five-row, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, expandable storage capabilities with a microSD card slot (1 GB card included) and a business card scanner application. The Touch Pro integrates 288MB of RAM and 512MB of Flash ROM.

It measures 4.2 x 2.1 x 0.70 inches and weighs 5.3 ounces.

The Touch Pro includes an Opera-based web browser and a version of YouTube, as well as an edition of Google Maps that integrates with the smartphone's integrated GPS. Turn the HTC Touch Pro horizontal from vertical and, like the iPhone, the browser will do the same.

It sports a powerful 528 MHz processor, hi-res, 2.8-inch VGA (640 x 320 pixel) resolution touch display and 3.2 megapixel camera. The smartphone also integrates Bluetooth 2.0 with support for wireless stereo headsets, Wi-Fi, and support for Sprint's high-speed Ev-DO Rev. A data network.

This smartphones 1350 mAh battery is supposed to deliver up to 250 minutes of talk time.

Rumor has it AT&T will release a variation of on the Touch Pro, possibly as the Fuze, over the next few weeks. Its current Tilt model is based on the same HTC smartphone as Sprint's Mogul.