HTC's Touch Diamond gets spotted in Sprint attire

Right, so it's not like we didn't know a CDMA version of HTC's hotly anticipated Touch Diamond was headed to Sprint, but who can honestly argue with in the wild photos proving that said assumption is true? What we have here is a bona fide Diamond in Sprint garb, although eagle-eyed readers will likely notice the mildly tweaked TouchFLO interface (which reeks of Bold there at the bottom, no?). At any rate, you can peek one more (blurry, of course) image of this bugger in the read link.

[Hamidxa @ Jul 1st 2008 6:18PM]

Nice and tempting, but Im going to hold out for the Touch Pro.
More RAM + slide-out keyboard are worth the wait.

[Dave @ Jul 1st 2008 6:46PM]

Exactly. Sprint and Verizon can go ahead and grab this one, since I would probably bet the house on AT&T grabbing the Touch Pro, which is a better phone anyways.

[Kris @ Jul 1st 2008 7:08PM]

Sprint is getting the Touch Pro too.... why else would it be at the FCC in CDMA?

[Hamidxa @ Jul 1st 2008 8:16PM]

Dave,

I was actually alluding to Sprint when I said I'll wait for the Touch Pro, heh.

But hopefully HTC will spread the love around and offer this phone for all carriers here.

[Dave @ Jul 1st 2008 9:23PM]

True good point. Guess I had a brain fart.

[kjb434 @ Jul 2nd 2008 9:09AM]

ATT or T-Mobile will get the Touch Pro after about 6-9 months of the CDMA version being released.

[Bradley @ Jul 2nd 2008 4:07PM]

The Touch Pro looks bulkier than my fatty 6700.

[DP @ Jul 1st 2008 6:19PM]

mmm... segzy. now how about some blurry touch pro pics?

[J-Rad @ Jul 1st 2008 6:19PM]

I hope Verizon gets this phone.
Come on Verizon! Please pull out!
[I dont want to be impregnated]

[blitzkrieg999 @ Jul 1st 2008 6:32PM]

Fear not, for Verizon WILL be getting this phone as wel!

Verizon and Sprint both getting Blessed with HTC Touch Pro and Diamond - Gizmodo

[Kamokazi @ Jul 1st 2008 6:24PM]

Here's to hopiong Verizon gets the Touch Pro then...

[ekimagem @ Jul 1st 2008 6:25PM]

WOOHOO!

I can upgrade my old touch to this. No wait....if theres shots of this then the Raphael shots are prolly out to sumwhere. Hopefully this ends the speculation of whos gettin this phone in the U.S first.

So yea...no verizon, or anyone else. Instinct now this, then the raphael after that. Sprints finally gettin sum decent phones.

[Derek @ Jul 1st 2008 6:29PM]

I sure hope you can get the original interface back easily, that Sprint theme is pretty ugly.

[mphayvanh @ Jul 1st 2008 6:40PM]

T-Mobile's pink/maroon scheme or Verizon's fugly red checkmark?! I'll take the yellow wing thingy.

[Derek @ Jul 1st 2008 6:42PM]

Or they could just not change what was already perfect. :)

[Matt @ Jul 1st 2008 8:28PM]

Wing thingy? It's a pin dropping.

[Matt @ Jul 1st 2008 10:52PM]

The great thing about Sprint and Windows Mobile devices is that it's pretty easy to change the theme if you don't dig the default sprint branded one.

[Alex @ Jul 1st 2008 6:31PM]

I hope this is real.

Damn mr. blurrycam...

[Lowest Ranked @ Jul 1st 2008 7:45PM]

He took the pictures with his iPhone, look at the reflection.

[Reid @ Jul 1st 2008 9:47PM]

Lowest Ranked,

took me awhile to see that after you pointed it out. Is he holding it sideways? If so, now I see it.

..but I came to this thread to say damn, is there a rule that if you have access to something before it's available to the general public, you must take the crappiest possible pic?

[Derek @ Jul 1st 2008 10:58PM]

Actually he used a Mogul, it says on PPCGeeks (where this is from).

[Elais @ Jul 2nd 2008 8:57AM]

Yeah they use a rule borrowed from japanese porn. Anything worth seeing has to be blurred out.

Anyway I agree with an earlier statement. This is nice, but I'm still gonna wait for the pro. I can't live without my full QWERTY goodness.

[blitzkrieg999 @ Jul 1st 2008 6:33PM]

Oh sure, just kill my link!

http://gizmodo.com/5020913/verizon-and-sprint-both-getting-blessed-with-htc-touch-pro-and-diamond

[John @ Jul 1st 2008 6:41PM]

Well.. at least Sprint tossed their logo in the upper right hand corner instead of where the HTC logo is. Agree though.. the Sprint themed TouchFLO 3D is icky.

[Nomi @ Jul 1st 2008 6:57PM]

whaat?!

[alexicov @ Jul 1st 2008 6:46PM]

the photos taken with another phone..
How ironic

[retro77 @ Jul 1st 2008 6:57PM]

Almost looks like an iPhone Gen1 in the reflection.

[John @ Jul 1st 2008 7:07PM]

Its a Mogul actually. I have one and it looks like it, not only that but the guy who took the shots said it was one.

[retro77 @ Jul 1st 2008 7:28PM]

Thank you, John. Much appreciated.

[retro77 @ Jul 1st 2008 6:56PM]

I'll donate a $1 to send this guy to photography class so that we can something we make out. Geez!

[Kimleng @ Jul 1st 2008 7:07PM]

You can be thankful that the phone used to take this picture didn't contain/or fire off a flash! Then we'd have something worse than this blob of a picture akin to graphics produced by a Sega Genesis. But, yes, having some Super Nintendo level pictures would be nice.

[Anthony H. @ Jul 1st 2008 7:08PM]

I'll donate $1 to send you to English class so that we can make out what your saying.

[Tony @ Jul 1st 2008 7:25PM]

@ Anthony H.

Looks like you could use some English classes too.

[retro77 @ Jul 1st 2008 7:27PM]

Ya, Anthony H., get a grip. I can't make out what you are saying.

[Nomi @ Jul 1st 2008 7:39PM]

It seems like people intentionally try to mess it up, even if you guess you have a 50% chance of getting it right....your, you're.

[retro77 @ Jul 1st 2008 7:41PM]

Nomi, that shall ym future gole, to purposely mess it pu all.

[bob cobb @ Jul 1st 2008 6:58PM]

Im so disappointed that they didnt make the screen bigger for this phone. Its basically what is making me switch from sprint for the 3g iPhone :(

[Pip @ Jul 1st 2008 7:10PM]

Here is the thread, the post is from someone in Sprint's testing group:

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=30023&page=3

This "leak" seems authorized by Sprint, since the poster is so up-front with his affiliation and position (and seemingly not afraid of losing his job).

And the pictures suck because they were taken with a Mogul, but ksemt says he will post pictures tonight from a real camera

[VampireHunter Z @ Jul 1st 2008 7:41PM]

My Mogul takes better pictures than this. This guy just did a crappy job.

[grull27 @ Jul 1st 2008 7:22PM]

I love the phone but I hate Windows Mobile. I've tried Windows Mobile phones (including the HTC Touch) and it was not user friendly at all! Hopefully they give us the easy-to-use interface I've seen in YouTube videos of this phone.

[Anthony @ Jul 1st 2008 7:32PM]

The Dream is also going to be for Alltel as well! I got to take a look at one at an Alltel seminar in Mankato, MN. There are some pretty sweet phones scheduled to hit Alltel stores this fall! Touch screen is the new black.

[Grant @ Jul 1st 2008 9:03PM]

you do know alltel=verizon now right?

[Tonyfoto @ Jul 1st 2008 7:36PM]

ooops, I just noticed that was the diamond! none the less the dream still is a sweet phone! hah

[Laxiepoo @ Jul 1st 2008 7:41PM]

I want! I want! So sick of my old Treo 700w...

[Harry_Bonds @ Jul 1st 2008 8:22PM]

ehh Iphone 3rd generation is what im waiting for, untill then sony xperia ftw! Or Maybe htc will pull its head out of there butts, and make a 3.5 inch screen thats touch.
anyways this looks nice for sprint users.

[Kyle @ Jul 1st 2008 10:28PM]

ummm....you do know that HTC made the Xperia right?

[Blad3 @ Jul 2nd 2008 9:09PM]

rofl, and you do know htc is coming out with the dream right? iphone = pwnt

[Grant @ Jul 1st 2008 9:05PM]

I want the pro pretty bad, unfortunately according to the source of the pictures "the Pro's FCC filing we saw yesterday requested confidentiality until October 19th".
So we're gonna be waiting a while. Oh well, i'm not up for a discounted phone til December anyways.

[Tonyfoto @ Jul 1st 2008 9:26PM]

Grant, you know the Alltel=Verizon still has to be approved by the FCC right? so as of right now the Dream is dressed up with an Alltel logo on it and will probably sell this fall as Alltel even if the merger is approved seeing how it will take about a year for anything noticeable to happen!

[Yu Gi Joe @ Jul 1st 2008 9:32PM]

That picture was obviously not taken with another Touch Diamond's forward facing camera for video calls which is quite obviously missing from the Sprint incarnation. Heck, I have an Aiptek VGA webcam, circa 1995 which takes better pictures than that. hehe