HTC actually readying Diamond / Raphael smartphones?

Rumors of a so-called HTC Diamond have been circulating since last year, but it seems legitimate evidence is beginning to mount in favor of the firm actually releasing one. According to placeholders on the Bluetooth SIG's official website, HTC has a Diamond and Raphael "PDA Phone" queued for release in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. Unfortunately, this database isn't nearly as telling as the one maintained by the FCC, so we're at a loss when it comes to specifications, pictures and practically anything worth noting. One thing's for sure, though: the wait for more details just got a lot shorter.

[Via Cellpassion]

Read - HTC Diamond
Read - HTC Raphael

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 2:12AM]

The HTC Diamond should be the same device T-Mobile presented at CeBIT as the MDA Compact IV. I.e. a device HTC Touch the size of HTC Touch with VGA screen, GPS, HSDPA/HSUPA, WiFi, Windows Mobile 6.1, 4 GB in-built flash storage, etc. It should be announced this month.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 21st 2008 1:16PM]

fwiw, a special supplement to the Wall Street Journal, 3/31/08 "Coming to a Pone Near You" (print edition) contains a reference to the HTC Touch Diamond as a "2nd quarter" arrival to Sprint, and describes it as a slim
variation of the Touch.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 1:50PM]

the first comment is correct but it'll be 1gb moviNAND. raphael is the one to be looking for though ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 7th 2008 3:49PM]

heyy umm i was wondering if anybody new
1.if thee raphael was coming to sprint?
2.when it is going to be realeased
if anybody knows this please comment back!!
thanks