HTC's Touch Diamond gets spotted in Sprint attire
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 1st 2008 6:14PM
posted Jul 1st 2008 6:14PM
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Nice and tempting, but Im going to hold out for the Touch Pro.
More RAM + slide-out keyboard are worth the wait.
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.
Sprint is getting the Touch Pro too.... why else would it be at the FCC in CDMA?
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.
True good point. Guess I had a brain fart.
ATT or T-Mobile will get the Touch Pro after about 6-9 months of the CDMA version being released.
The Touch Pro looks bulkier than my fatty 6700.
mmm... segzy. now how about some blurry touch pro pics?
I hope Verizon gets this phone.
Come on Verizon! Please pull out!
[I dont want to be impregnated]
Fear not, for Verizon WILL be getting this phone as wel!
Verizon and Sprint both getting Blessed with HTC Touch Pro and Diamond - Gizmodo
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.
Here's to hopiong Verizon gets the Touch Pro then...
I sure hope you can get the original interface back easily, that Sprint theme is pretty ugly.
T-Mobile's pink/maroon scheme or Verizon's fugly red checkmark?! I'll take the yellow wing thingy.
Or they could just not change what was already perfect. :)
Wing thingy? It's a pin dropping.
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.
I hope this is real.
Damn mr. blurrycam...
He took the pictures with his iPhone, look at the reflection.
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?
Actually he used a Mogul, it says on PPCGeeks (where this is from).
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.
Oh sure, just kill my link!
http://gizmodo.com/5020913/verizon-and-sprint-both-getting-blessed-with-htc-touch-pro-and-diamond
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.
whaat?!
the photos taken with another phone..
How ironic
Almost looks like an iPhone Gen1 in the reflection.
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.
Thank you, John. Much appreciated.
I'll donate a $1 to send this guy to photography class so that we can something we make out. Geez!
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.
I'll donate $1 to send you to English class so that we can make out what your saying.
@ Anthony H.
Looks like you could use some English classes too.
Ya, Anthony H., get a grip. I can't make out what you are saying.
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.
Nomi, that shall ym future gole, to purposely mess it pu all.
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 :(
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
My Mogul takes better pictures than this. This guy just did a crappy job.
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.
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.
you do know alltel=verizon now right?
ooops, I just noticed that was the diamond! none the less the dream still is a sweet phone! hah
I want! I want! So sick of my old Treo 700w...
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.
ummm....you do know that HTC made the Xperia right?
rofl, and you do know htc is coming out with the dream right? iphone = pwnt
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.
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!
Nice now lets get the Touch Pro and discontinue mogul
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
wow, great picture, how come the crazy new things always have pics taken, and how come theyre always blurry
The blurrier the picture, the more credibility it has. :-)
I hope AT&T gets the Diamond. I am eligible to upgrade from the 8125 and I REALLY want the Diamond. Can't afford the iPhone and the rest of the phone selection sucks. Show the love, AT&T
awesome! this is definetely my next phone, especially since im eligible for upgrade in september :D
I'm sad to say it, but I don't think that's a touch diamond. It's something eerily similar, but if you notice the rounding on the top and bottom of the device, it's not consistent with the pictures of the diamond that even HTC's been posting.
Blurry camera or not, I don't think the mogul's camera is wide-angle enough to put that kind of curvature on the very sharp edges of the diamond. There is the possibility that the CDMA version has a slightly different footprint to fit in a different chipset, but that seems more unlikely than this either being fake or not a diamond at all.
Dude, STFU!
I dont understand why something like, I dont know, a hot new phone in the wild for a new carrier gets such "if we have to post it" treatment when there have been about 5 useless iphone posts today alone.
played with it today, my sprint rep had it.
Its very light, and the back is that rubbery material and lacks the artsy cuts the GSM version has.
the interface was actually silky smooth, but rotating the device has too much of a gyration delay.
Another note, the gyration is reallly accurate, there was a marble labrynth game where you have to avoid pits and it realy felt as if there was a little marble rolling around on my phone.
he tried to demo sprint tv, but it didnt connect.
he also mentioned the sprintified interface is still in beta.
I would have thought this would be hitting TMOB usa before sprint, anyone have any hints on when that might happen???
Aaron is right guys;
This is NOT a Touch Diamond; it is the Touch Pro, the one with the full keyboard.
One of the design differences is a less 'squarish' front. Check out the diamond here, and note the straight, flat edges and sharp corners:
http://www.pocketnow.com/html/portal/news/0000005341/NewsImage/HTC-Touch-Diamond-Dimensions.jpg
Wrong...
http://www.mobilmania.cz/getfile.aspx?id_file=902420920
http://www.mobilmania.cz/getfile.aspx?id_file=877154611
I'll wait for the Pro and only if it works with SERO.
I see dead people
With all of the people that spend hours examining each and every pixel of blurry product photography, am I the only one who sees the demon bunny photoshopped in underneath what appears to be the "Home" icon on that thing?
What is that "demon bunny" looking thing at the right hand corner of the phone display where the display meets the housing of the phone????
lol will have to phone my buddy and call him a sucker, he just bought the Instinct like 3 days ago. Which IMO was a horribly slow, crappy phone.
i have to say that that doesn't look quite like the diamond. the top and bottom edges are curved here and not on the diamond.