Sprint, Bluefish taking names for Touch Diamond, September release confirmed
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Aug 30th 2008 10:02PM
posted Aug 30th 2008 10:02PM
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Hooray! This means the Touch Pro is at most 2 months away!
Rumors are for the 2nd or the 14th. I hope as hell its the 2nd though... going order one as soon as its out!
They need to say if it has that blasted red-back or not... that could be a deal breaker.
Why does it have a picture of the GSM Touch Diamond?
The Touch Pro is comming out October 19th for Sprint.
YIPPIE!!! I'm the first one to mention the iPhone! Wait...who gives a shit. Jobs blows goats and I have the pics.
This is DEFINITELY the BEST phone to land this year (Until the Touch Pro). I'm sure that there will not be a line of dumbasses around the block waiting for the store to open. But those of us who were brave enough to stick with Sprint's sorry ass will be walking past all of you glorified iPod owners petting "The Precious", and laughing while watching you try to make a call. See what you get for disobeying one of the Ten Commandments. Thou Shall Have No Other God... A.K.A. Thou Shall Not Worship Fruit!
Mind sharing those pics with the rest of the class? Please?
hey danny i hope your right, but what are your sources???
danny i hope you right!! but i wanna see your sources :-/
As a Sprint employee I got confirmation today that it will be on the 14th. In most in directs and retail stores around the 20th.....
I'm ordering this phone the first second i see its released.
HTC Touch Diamond
* Net Price: $249.99 (SRP: $549.99)
Score! Now all I need to do is wait on the Touch Pro.. then somehow twist their insurance into replacing my current PDA with one ftw!
Here on the right side of the pond this thing has been for sale for months; and belive me , my N95 8GB still makes every touch diamond owner hide in shame.
By October we have been promised the Samsung omnia and the SE X1 experia, plus the HTC dream before the holiday season.
Then , as soon as one of those shows up in Yurop I´ll pension my N95, but not before.
Surely not for a substandard AGPS , a puny 3Mpix camera, 4 GB of non expandable memory and an awkward UI.
I dunno about the touch pro but when finally it will come out it will surely have a tough time cutting out some space for itself against the competition.
The touch pro is already out "on the right side of the pond", and has been for a while. I have mine in my hand right now, and as a former N95 8GB owner, the TP wipes the floor with it in every respect bar none. And the only way the N95 beats the diamond is in capacity and camera (and I have a digital camera, I've never understood ones built into phones).
Both touches have better hardware, better interfaces, better software, and better build quality. The x1 is a buggy piece of poorly built **** which has been delayed until next year, and if you think the touch diamond UI is awkward then you have never used one, it's smooth, intuative and it works.
As for the omina, the widget interface is a nice toy, but not really practical. It's a great phone, but it doesn't cut it as a smartphone
Why would they just start carrying the Treo 800W, another high-end Windows Mobile device, then bring this out?
Cannibalization anyone?
I think the Treo 800 and these HTC phones are definitely targeted at different demographics...
I mean they are about as different as possible while still sharing a common feature (WM)
I don't think they will suffer much cannibalization. With this particular Diamond being a Sprint phone and not at all related to AT&T and GSM...
But, if they were then AT&T would be well-served to release multiple smartphones, provided each phone offers different benefits to the consumer. If you offer three of the same phone then yes, that would be a waste. The treo 800W has a different form-factor (some folks don't want a slide-out qwerty), the Touch Diamond has no keyboard but does have TouchFlo 3D, the Touch Pro has the interface AND slide-out qwerty...and the X1 (whenever it arrives) has a (slightly different 4-line) qwerty and panels interface. You really do have your pick as a consumer.
@Rogue_Genius:
Most simple folk like me probably figure that it would definitely take a genius to work AT&T and GSM into a conversation about Sprint phone models and cannibalization amongst Sprint sales. :-)
@ Dave: game. set. match. I clearly mis-read the post.
Link is now broken... Kind of like sprint
Link is back