While O2 Germany's version of the HTC Nike, the O2 Xda star, follows the design of the Xda nova, HTC's Touch Dual follows the design of the HTC Touch. With a slightly different D-Pad and smaller call keys, HTC has released the HTC Touch Dual in two different keyboard versions: a kind of traditional 12-keys phone pad and a 20-keys SureType-like QWERTY keyboard.
Thanks to HTC I recently received a 12-keys phone pad HTC Touch Dual which is - other than the keypad layout - the same as O2's Xda star, the Orange's HTC Touch or T-Mobile's upcoming MDA Touch Plus, featuring Windows Mobile 6 Professional and a Qucalcomm CPU at 400 MHz and supporting triband GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as singleband UMTS/HSDPA up to 3.6 Mbps:

To be continued.

Cheers ~ Arne

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Once again, nice pictures

How is the keypad and the general one-hand handling?

It's not different to the Xda Star (which I reviewed before) except the keyboard layout which is - well - a mobile phone keypad we are used to use.
Quite handy are the Start button. The Internet Explorer Mobile and Inbox keys are nice but I used to use the TouchFLO interface instead.