Reuters inform: “Germany’s three leading mobile operators will start selling the HTC Touch smartphone from end-June — earlier than Apple’s iPhone, which the HTC Touch hopes to rival. Taiwan’s High Tech Computer Corp., which makes the HTC Touch, said on Friday its touchscreen phone would retail for a recommended 450 euros ($599) if sold without a contract.”

“HTC said T-Mobile would sell a version of the HTC Touch — which has an integrated media player and is based on Microsoft software — under the brand MDA Touch. Vodafone will bring out a co-branded version designed jointly with HTC, while O2 Germany will sell another version branded Xda nova.”

“HTC has begun selling the HTC Touch in Taiwan and Britain and will extend that to the United States later this month. It has sold a better-than-expected 60,000 of the phones so far this month and JPMorgan expects it should be able to ship 2 million between July and December.”