Unofficial Touch Diamond ROM magically unlocks GSM 850

We'd given up any hope of the Touch Diamonds out in the field ever being completely function on North American networks; the lack of 3G sucks enough as it is, but the mysterious absence of GSM 850 was the final slap in the face. xda-developers has taken its usual no-mountain-too-high approach, though, and has somehow managed to uncover and enable GSM 850 capability lying dormant in the Touch Diamond's circuitry. Granted, you'll still be poking along at EDGE speeds at best, but at least you'll be doing so in a wider swath of the colonies.

[Via wmpoweruser.com]

[JustinVincible Posted Jul 17th 2008 3:05PM]

With no word on when the GSM Diamond is coming to the states, this might make it worth it to import.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 17th 2008 9:38PM]

flashed my diamond a few days ago, and yes 850mhz is now freed from it's cage!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 11th 2008 8:21AM]

how did you hack it????

[bachviet Posted Jul 18th 2008 12:35AM]

XDA-Devs rocks!

[jlarex Posted Jul 18th 2008 9:06PM]

Why the hell did they lock it in the first place?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 19th 2008 5:36PM]

Why didn't this make breaking news on standard Engadget? This is huge! The iPhone stories must be hogging all the space...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 21st 2008 11:42AM]

This is huge but the Edge network is slower than the turtle that delivers these to North America. I guess something is better than nothing?? The 3g version will hit Sprint in September, at least according to Sprint employee memos and the FCC privacy document release dates which is August 15th.