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Look what we have here! A slide that seems to be from some internal meeting at T-Mobile showing off what is essentially the carrier’s internal roadmap of what handsets they will offer through the first quarter of 2010. Do you notice something?

Yeah, me too. It’s a really boringly done slide. Someone should teach them about putting some excitement into PowerPoint presentations. However, the content of the slide kinda makes up for its drab nature. I seem to spy three really interesting phones that are coming up next month.

The obvious focus seems to be ‘low cost’ with one high-end model thrown in for good measure. So come the end of Q1 2010, T-Mobile customers will have the MOTO CLIQ XT, Nokia Nuron and HTC HD2 to choose from. The HD2 we are quite familiar with already but the other two are pretty intriguing. Oh, and there’s an annoying typo in the CLIQ XT’s name. Must’ve been a rush job presentation with a 5-year old running berserk in the house.

The CLIQ XT from Motorola seems like the Zeppelin model we were hearing about late last year. It is obviously an Android phone and T-Mobile users already have a lot of choices on that platform. the Nuron from Nokia (interesting name by the way) looks very, very familiar. In fact, how about you take a look at the 5230 right now and tell me it doesn’t look familiar?

World Mobile Congress AKA WMC is due in just a few days and that makes things slightly precarious because it is rumored that Steve Ballmer will bore the crowd once again. Oh, and he also might launch Windows Mobile 7.

The slide has no proof of authenticity but it is not ground-breaking enough to be suspected. You can safely expect these to be on offer in March. Credit goes to PPCGeeks for this slide.

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