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HTC Shift gets UK price cut; replacement or retirement imminent?
SlashGear — Is HTC planning the imminent demise of the Shift UMPC?  Retailer Expansys has slashed the cost of the compact touchscreen device by £450 ($656), bringing it down to $499.99 ($731), as part of a promotion through their email newsletter.  The Shift has a 7-inch touchscreen, runs Windows Vista, and has integrated tri-band UMTS/HSDPA; it’s based on a low-power 800MHz Intel processor that’s looking pretty tired compared to the chip company’s latest silicon offerings. Nothing with the exact Shift form-factor was seen among the HTC 2009 renders leaked on Monday, although the device has never ...

HTC Shift’s UK price gets lopped in half
CrunchGear — Got an e-mail from Expansys this morning announcing that it’s dropped the price on the HTC Shift X9500 in the UK to £499.99, almost half of what it’d previously been selling at. It’s hard to say if they’re trying to blow these things out because nobody’s buying them or because they’re coming out with a new version – maybe both? Whatever the case, we reviewed the US version and liked it pretty well so it’d be interesting to see what HTC would be able to come up with now with all the current netbook hoopla going around. HTC Shift X9500 [Expansys]