HTC has recently introduced the Merge (aka Lexikon), an Android smartphone with sliding QWERTY keyboardfor quick text input. To be released by Alltel, the HTC Merge will cost $124.99 with a 2-year contract. The phone is powered by a Qualcomm 800MHz processor and runs Android 2.2 with HTC Sense UI. It is HTC’s first Android-based CDMA world phone, meaning it also supports GSM/WCDMA network for roaming.

Announced back in October, HTC’s 7 Pro is heading to Sprint as the HTC Arrive, which is the first CDMA Window Phone to get a release date. Coming in 20 March, the Arrive will be for $199.99 on a two-year contract after $100 mail-in rebate.

HTC ChaCha

While INQ’s Cloud Touch and Cloud Q are the very first Facebook-focused smartphones with a social homescreen, HTC’s newly announced ChaCha and Salsa take a step further by offering one-touch Facebook access with a dedicated Facebook button for one-touch access to the key functions of the Facebook service that are integrated throughout the HTC Sense experience. Both phones run Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread.

Sprint is launching the new HTC EVO Shift 4G Android smartphone, the brother of the EVO 4G. The new EVO Shift comes with a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard and supports Sprint’s WiMAX 4G network. Powered by Qualcomm’s SnapDragon MSM7630 800MHz processor, the new EVO has 512MB RAM and 2GB of ROM.

PhoneArena posted a few shots of the HTC EVO Shift 4G Android smartphone, which is believed to be released by Sprint in January. The phone, like the original EVO 4G, supports Sprint’s WiMAX 4G network. It has a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard.

Here is another shot of T-Mobile’s MyTouch Slider, aka HTC Espresso. The phone is rumored to get a 320×480 touchscreen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a camera with LED …

Here are two shots of T-Mobile upcoming myTouch Slide, which is also known as the myTouch2 or HTC Espresso. The new device is a Android-based smartphone with a side-slide QWERTY keyboard and a 320×480 touchscreen display.

Verizon Wireless launches the HTC Touch Pro2 QWERTY smartphone. The phone features a slide-out QWERTY keypad. It has a 3.6-inch 480×800 tilting touchscreen display, a 3.2 Megapixel auto …

According to BGR, Verizon is going to launch the HTC OZone QWERTY phone which is basically Verizon’s version of the HTC Snap. It supports not …

A guy over at PPCGeeks shows us some live shots of Sprint’s upcoming HTC Willow (or the Star?), which will be launched on 7 June. The Willow is in fact the CDMA version of HTC’s Snap. It is boosted by a Qualcomm 528MHz processor, 192MB RAM and 256MB flash memory.