The Apple iPhone has brought touch-screens to the mainstream, but it's $500 price tag scares off many small businesses. It also lacks high-speed 3G capabilities and is locked into AT&T.

In the hunt for the iPhone killer, HTC is offering possibly the best alternative, the new HTC Touch. The device will be available from Sprint beginning November 4.

The HTC Touch (click to enlarge)

Among the Touch's features:

- a full-touch phone screen, dubbed TouchFlo -- optimized for a finger, not a stylus, like the iPhone

- the touch screen and user interface sits in front of a standard Windows Mobile operating system

- the phone operates on Sprint's broadband mobile network (Apple's iPhone runs on AT&T's last-generation data network)

For small businesses that like the flash of the Apple iPhone but need the business support of Windows Mobile, HTC Touch might fit the bill.

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