The HTC Touch Pro2 is now available on the Verizon Wireless website at www.verizonwireless.com. If you buy it online, you get an instant $100 rebate (no need to file a mail-in rebate). You can get it for $199.99 with a 2-year contract, $269.99 for  a 1-year contract, or $489.99 for a Month to Month price.

The key features of the HTC Touch Pro 2 include a  3.2 Megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and Visual Voice Mail. It has Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, but I believe you can update to Windows Mobile 6.5 once it’s released in October.

Today Verizon announced in a press release that the HTC Touch Pro 2 will be available online at www.verizonwireless.com and in stores on Friday, September 11. The price is $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and a 2-year contract. The HTC Touch Pro 2 will be available in Black.

The phone uses Windows Mobile. Key features of Verizon’s HTC Touch Pro 2 include a 3.6 inch touch screen, QWERTY  keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera, TouchFLO 3D interface, 512 MB ROM, Qualcomm 528 MHz processor,  and WiFi. You can read the full specs at Verizon’s press release page.

According to research firm IDC, RIM’s BlackBerry Curve has taken the top spot as the top-selling smartphone for the second quarter in the US. Despite the iPhone and it’s success with the App Store, the BlackBerry has managed to do better in sales.

Here is the list of the top 10 selling smartphones for Q2:

1. BlackBerry Curve (8310, 8320, 8330, 8350i, and 8900)
2. Apple iPhone 3GS (16GB and 32GB)
3. BlackBerry Pearl (8110, 8120, 8130)
4. Apple iPhone 3G (8GB and 16GB)
5. BlackBerry Bold
6. BlackBerry Storm
7. HTC/T-Mobile G1
8. Palm Pre
9. HTC Touch Pro
10. HTC Touch Diamond

I’m surprised that the BlackBerry has been able to perform better than Apple. One of the major factors that I believe is bringing lower sales to the iPhone is that it’s only available on AT&T. If the iPhone was to be available on other carriers like Verizon, or Sprint I’m sure that  it would easily beat BlackBerry in sales.

If you read the list you’ll notice that there are five different models of the BlackBerry Curve, while there are only two different models of the iPhone 3GS. So the list is a bit unfair! IDC is also saying that they haven’t finalized the numbers yet, they’re preliminary.

The Palm Pre which was launched on June 6th ranked 8th in this list. It’s good to see that Palm’s new Pre at least ranked on this list.

[via Information Week]