Virgin Mobile USA, a brand under Sprint, launches the new Samsung Restore QWERTY messaging phone. The eco-friendly device has a casing that contains 27 percent post-consumer recycled plastics and 3 percent of the phone is recyclable. Designed for messaing and social networking, the Restore comesw ith a slide-out full QWERTY 4-row keyboard.

Following the successful E71 and E72, Nokia introduces its new QWERTY business smartphone, the E6 running the latest Symbian Anna. The E6 combines a 2.46-inch LCD capacitive touchscreen with a 640×480 resolution (ie. 326ppi) with the QWERTY keyboard to deliver faster navigation and operation. The phone comes with a 8 Megapixel full focus camera with dual LED flash and 720p HD video recording at 25fps.

Here is a short hands-on video of the upcoming Blackberry Bold Touch 9930 Montana smartphone. The new Blackberry combines touchscreen and iconic QWERTY keyboard.

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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.

T-Mobile unveiled the new Samsung Sidekick 4G Android smartphone with support for HSPA+ 4G mobile network with up to 21Mbps theoretical peak download speeds. Like the other Sidekick phones, …

Here is a leaked shot of a QWERTY Symbian that is said to be known as the Nokia E6-00. The new phone runs Symbian^3. It comes with a 640×360 display, a …

Samsung is going to reveal another Android smartphone, this time a bar-type QWERTY called Galaxy Pro. The phone is powered by a 800MHz processor with 512MB RAM and 2GB storage and runs Android 2.2. The Galaxy Pro comes with a 2.8-inch 320×240 touchscreen, a QWERTY keyboard, and a 3 Megapixel camera.

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.

Other than the new Pre 3, HP also introduces the Veer, the smallest webOS smartphone to date. With a slide-out keyboard, the compact phone is about the size of a credit card and no thicker than a deck of cards. It measures just 54.5 mm x 84.0 mm x 15.1 mm and is only 103 grams. One special thing about the Veer is that it doesn’t have dedicated micro USB port and 3.5mm jack, instead it has a 5-pin magnetic connector for attaching charging adapter and 3.5mm jack adapter.