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Sony Ericsson has unveiled the Aspen, a Microsoft-powered business smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard and a 2.4-inch, 240-by-320-pixel QVGA touch screen.

The phone itself looks fairly unremarkable, but it turns out the Aspen is running Windows Mobile 6.5.3, which would make it the first handset to do so. Windows Mobile 6.5.3 includes support for glass capacitive touch screens with multi-touch, meaning that we could finally see some Windows Mobile phones that respond properly with fingers instead of a stylus.

To date, the only Microsoft-powered phone I’ve tried that came close to approximating the Android/iPhone/Palm Pre touch experience is the HTC Imagio, which uses a finely tuned glass resistive touch screen. (The Imagio is still a good buy, even if the Droid is now our current Editors’ Choice; check out our brand-new Verizon smartphone guide for more details.)

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