HTC Touch Hopes to Touch iPhone

HTC announced today that it’s touch-screen smartphone, the HTC Touch, will be available in the US by the end of the year.  The HTC Touch uses touch-screen technology supposedly similar to that of the iPhone, and has a nifty user interface based on a rotating cube.  HTC boasts that the HTC Touch is the world’s first touch phone.  Hear that, Apple?  FIRST.  Sorry iPhone.  I didn’t mean that.  I still love you.

HTC hopes to compete with the iPhone, and since it’s packing the whole Windows package, it may offer a certain level of PC integration that allows it to do just that.  However, even with all it’s fancy rotating cubes, some critics (me) remain skeptical.