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.

[Silent Patriot Posted 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

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 1st 2008 10:07PM]

wow, great picture, how come the crazy new things always have pics taken, and how come theyre always blurry

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 2nd 2008 1:03AM]

The blurrier the picture, the more credibility it has. :-)

[SgtBilbo77 Posted Jul 1st 2008 10:39PM]

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

[cesium Posted Jul 1st 2008 10:32PM]

awesome! this is definetely my next phone, especially since im eligible for upgrade in september :D

[hebrewbacon Posted Jul 1st 2008 10:34PM]

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.

[derekwilkinson Posted Jul 2nd 2008 12:32AM]

Dude, STFU!

[Ioncloud9 Posted Jul 1st 2008 10:36PM]

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.

[uShak Posted Jul 1st 2008 10:56PM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 1st 2008 11:38PM]

I would have thought this would be hitting TMOB usa before sprint, anyone have any hints on when that might happen???

[matthewf01 Posted Jul 1st 2008 11:37PM]

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

[Roi Heenok Posted Jul 2nd 2008 4:30AM]

Wrong...
http://www.mobilmania.cz/getfile.aspx?id_file=902420920
http://www.mobilmania.cz/getfile.aspx?id_file=877154611

[Truckondo Posted Jul 2nd 2008 1:51AM]

I'll wait for the Pro and only if it works with SERO.

[scolen2 Posted Jul 2nd 2008 3:23AM]

I see dead people

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 2nd 2008 7:21AM]

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?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 2nd 2008 12:49PM]

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????

[Slarity Posted Jul 2nd 2008 9:46AM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 2nd 2008 1:30PM]

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.