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It's been a big week for smartphone availability. While the HTC Desire HD was launched a while back it has started appearing on operator websites in the last day or so, a bit earlier than we had feared.
Coincidentally or not, the more-recently launched HTC WP7 phones have also become available to buy towards the end of the week.
And the Nokia N8, launched at the same time as the Desire HD and Nokia's latest attempt to crack the high-end smartphone market, has begun cropping up at a few more operators, a few weeks after it supposedly started shipping.
So we thought we'd give you a round-up of the new HTC offerings at the five UK operators, as represented by their online stores at the end of the week, and mention the Nokia N8 while we're at it.
So here's a handy reference table. Note the absence of the HTC Trophy from the Vodafone website, despite that being an exclusive (no sign of the LG Optimus 7 either, for that matter). There's also no sign that we could see of the HTC Desire Z. All the tariffs are 24 month and the lowest price we could see for a ‘free' phone. If they're in brackets they represent an online-only price.
| Operator | Desire HD | HD7 | Mozart | N8 |
| T-Mobile | 40 | 35 | ||
| O2 | 40 | 40 | ||
| Vodafone | (35) | (30) | ||
| Orange | (32.50) | |||
| Three | 40 |
