Sketchy claims, pictures of first AT&T Touch Pro emerge

With all the Touch Diamond / Touch Pro news surfacing for these US CDMA carriers, quite a few AT&T subscribers are beginning to get restless. Calm down, folks -- it seems the AT&T Touch Pro is a reality waiting to happen after all. Based on some admittedly dodgy claims and even dodgier photographs, one particular soul has apparently paid $900 for a pre-release Touch Pro with North American 3G. Only time will tell if he got duped, but we're going to believe that AT&T wouldn't let this gem pass it by for too much longer until proven wrong.

[Via wmpoweruser]

[GDL @ Aug 11th 2008 9:39AM]

Oh! The better,the more expensive!

[Cool8man @ Aug 11th 2008 3:16PM]

That keyboard looks terrible! Why did they remove the numbers from the top row and put punctuation keys instead? :(

So they remove the front camera, ruin the keyboard, and call it the U.S. version?

[GDL @ Aug 15th 2008 3:32AM]

Maybe it's terrible,but HTC Touch Diamond hasn't keyboard!

[From My Cube @ Aug 11th 2008 9:43AM]

fuzzy or to dark to see a damn thing...pick your leak

[From My Cube @ Aug 11th 2008 10:04AM]

i would edit to fix that grammar mistake...but alas Endgadget doesnt believe in it

[cmaikai @ Aug 11th 2008 9:44AM]

Mmmmm. I can't wait to have this phone in my pants...pocket, of course.

[g00n @ Aug 11th 2008 10:30AM]

BEST FONE EVAR.

good game iphone.

[kjb434 @ Aug 11th 2008 9:46AM]

Well, when i does come to ATT, I'll move on up from my Tilt.

[rock99rock @ Aug 11th 2008 9:48AM]

$900 now, $300 in 2 months.

I got some Enron stocks i wanna sell this guy.

[CAHLITO @ Aug 11th 2008 9:48AM]

No phone is worth $900. I don't care what bragging rights you'll have.

[Nick @ Aug 11th 2008 9:58AM]

Yeah tell that to the sheep who picked up an iphone.

[Dale @ Aug 11th 2008 10:13AM]

Uh, because the iPhone cost $900?

How is this relevant?

[j_g_puff @ Aug 11th 2008 10:17AM]

ANY phone can be worth $999 if you put the correct app on it...

[virgoRV @ Aug 11th 2008 1:40PM]

Put the 'I am Rich' application on the iphone and it'll be $999 worth

[OziD @ Aug 11th 2008 2:34PM]

virgo you totally ruined that guys joke.

[cmaikai @ Aug 11th 2008 9:50AM]

I say get this guy to take a picture of the SIM card inside of the phone.

[Neumann @ Aug 11th 2008 5:01PM]

I believe if you look at the status in the top right, he doesn't have a SIM card loaded. Also he needs to charge his battery...

[TheJalAbides @ Aug 12th 2008 1:41AM]

@Neumann

if you read the thread, he hasn't received the phone yet. That is supposed to happen sometime later today (see post #3 on the xda thread). The pictures are from the seller.

[Nitecrawlah2 @ Aug 11th 2008 10:05AM]

Well, I for one am glad to (hopefully) finally hear this will be released for AT&T. Upgrade here I come!

[brentdanz @ Aug 11th 2008 10:07AM]

Nice Ariel font... looks like it's running Windows 3.1.

[BeyondtheTech @ Aug 11th 2008 10:08AM]

$900?! For less than a hundred more, he could have picked up "I Am Rich" instead.

I may be a fanboy and all for the iPhone, but I'm also all for good competition. Let's hope that HTC steps up to the plate and comes up with a winner with this one. IMO, the Tilt was a pretty good contender for what it offered hardware-wise.

[BluesK1d @ Aug 11th 2008 10:15AM]

Ugh! Leave it to the carriers to let a shit-chucking-ape ruin the UI provided by the manufacturer. The black flip clock looks like complete garbage against that hideous light colored ATT wallpaper. I'm sure it can be changed. It's just the principle.

[Xenoterranos @ Aug 11th 2008 10:19AM]

Is that like a biblical reference? Would that be chapter 6 verse 10 of the book of Phail?

[Computer_kid @ Aug 11th 2008 10:35AM]

If you are going to go with at&t, why not just get an iPhone.

[Hamidxa @ Aug 11th 2008 11:15AM]

Because you'd be paying more for less.

[Zak @ Aug 11th 2008 12:22PM]

Yes, because $199 is clearly more than $900.

Were you born stupid or did you get this way over time?

[O2 @ Aug 11th 2008 12:50PM]

He is a computer kid. He forgot to load the calculator.

[Phoenix @ Aug 11th 2008 1:48PM]

The real answer is because they're for different markets, only a small section of their target demographic overlaps

[Landon @ Aug 11th 2008 2:03PM]

Umm....the 900 was for a "pre-release" and that's all speculation anyways. I think that question and ya'lls comments could be better posted when this thing actually hits AT&T and we see how much it is then.

[bigdoggie @ Aug 11th 2008 10:41AM]

Wow, $900?

It's going for €500 here in Portugal!
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[Sarig @ Aug 11th 2008 11:18AM]

Heh, with the current exchange rate, that's almost the same :)

[Ayle @ Aug 11th 2008 11:31AM]

Didn't you know that E500 = $750... Add to that the import tax and you get $900 :D

[Riles @ Aug 11th 2008 10:43AM]

Doesn't it seem more than a little odd that it wouldn't actually be ATT branded on the phone itself, rather than just included on screen.

[Brian @ Aug 11th 2008 10:55AM]

it wont be 900 with a contract thats just a price an idiot payed for it earlier

but im so happy were finally getting some sort of details!
my 8525 is on its last legs getting the white screen a lot i need a touch pro very badly. and the bold just get delayed wich worries me they might push the touch back as well so they have phone come out every month or something

[zephxiii @ Aug 11th 2008 11:15AM]

They got rid of the top row being the number keys!!!! AWESOME. Score 1 for ATT heh. (I had 8125, it's number keys were spread across the top row too, it sucked. My 8525 has them in a cluster like a keypad, so much nicer to use.

[Abuzar Baloach @ Aug 11th 2008 12:10PM]

They got rid of DEDICATED number keys.


Way to screw shit up ATT.

[Phoenix @ Aug 11th 2008 12:32PM]

I KNOW! Why the FUCK would they do that? At least I'm in the UK! :) but I'll never be able to afford one :(

[Abuzar Baloach @ Aug 11th 2008 12:43PM]

Well I hope it's different in the final revision.

[Kent @ Aug 11th 2008 11:23AM]

I've been waiting to see what kinds of carriers this thing is coming to. Any new information is nice.

[Abuzar Baloach @ Aug 11th 2008 11:44AM]

YES! Time to switch to AT&T. I hope they get it released in a few months.

I would love to stick with T-Mobile. But I don't think T-Mobile will be having this one.

[blitzkrieg999 @ Aug 11th 2008 12:47PM]

I'm not convinced. The phone itself is unbranded, and all the stuff you see in TF3D could easily be done on any phone, not just an AT&T phone

[yode @ Aug 11th 2008 7:21PM]

do you thiink the guy photoshopped the top number keys to be punctuation keys? fail

[Sandra @ Aug 11th 2008 1:18PM]

Whatever, just stop teasing us and release a worth while phone AT&T, I need a new phone but the only nice phones are the VU which is only nice looking, the iPhone which is Apple and thus locked down more than fort knox, and the Tilt which is old, come on and give us the touch pro, omnia, xperia, or something else good already.

[Mycroft @ Aug 11th 2008 1:32PM]

Sprint EVDO Rev A or AT&T 3G HSPDA?

[syndrical.one @ Aug 11th 2008 3:11PM]

PLEASE hurry up and come to Canada!!!
That stupid Rogers 6Gig package expires on August 31st !!

[John H. @ Aug 11th 2008 3:15PM]

seems a tad janky

[Eleu @ Aug 11th 2008 4:12PM]

Went to the Cingular / ATT store today to check on this and while they will not, as always, tell you when a non-press released phone is going to sale, I did get one clerk to tell me that they are going for training on this end of next week.

This kid has apparently gotten the spotlight for somewhere around 2 weeks. Congratulations.

[Andrew R @ Aug 11th 2008 6:16PM]

What annoys me is we finally get a decent 5 true QWERTY row keyboard and instead of leaving well enough alone and AT&T looks like they are going to muck up that layout!!!!

AAAARRGGHHHHHH!!!!!!

[Macbeth @ Aug 11th 2008 9:02PM]

Fake. most likely an import photoshopped to look like an at&t phone

[Macbeth @ Aug 11th 2008 9:19PM]

My reasoning is that until now I have yet to see any phone w/o a brand or carrier logo on the face. And it looks like were to HTC logo usu is has been rubber stamped