HTC Touch Diamond launching on Sprint in September for $299.99?
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Aug 19th 2008 4:48PM
posted Aug 19th 2008 4:48PM
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YAY!!
its mine
I honestly recommend getting a HTC Touch Pro instead of the Diamond. I just sold my Touch Diamond and now I'm waiting for the Sony Ericsson X1.
You Suck!! WAAAAAHHH!!! I aleady have the Sprint Touch, which I love, but I want a Diamon Pro though. Oh well. It'll have to wait until 2010 when my contract ends. :( By then the new Hotness should be out anyways. :p
The Sprint Diamond has more RAM and a larger battery than the GSM version you had. I'm not interested in the Touch Pro cause it is very thick and I think it will be uncomfortable in the pocket. Not to mention Touch Pro will probably cost even more than this. Xperia looks great, but I think it will be extremely expensive.
What is MIR???
Rebate???
So it's actually $399 before rebates than...
Yep...likely Mail-in-Rebate.
And $549 for us that have the Employee Plan =(
What? No.
With the EDRP we get it for the after rebate price.
Either Mail-In Rebate or Manufacturer Instant Rebate. Instant rebate would be nicer I guess.
Too much. Should be $249 at most - $199 preferably.
Uh, free preferably...
Wait for the price to go down numskulls...
$300 in September, $200 at Christmas....
Bjguess...do you have any invites for Grandcentral? You mentioned it in a post on another story and I've been aware of it for awhile but it's closed to new users b/c Google bought it? you can e-mail me at andytbusiness (at) gmail.com. if you have ANY info on the Grand Central I'd be interested. Seems like a SWEET idea.
How long will we have to wait for a phone with FLASH and JAVA?>
It has both!
It has the official Opera Mobile browser (not the beta on Opera's website) that allows full youtube viewing.
It also has Java.
Strangely, I have all this on my ATT Tilt. The XDA Developers are doing awesome things by picking apart the Diamond's version of Windows Mobile and making it available for other phone users.
Skyfire FTW!
Skyfire, doesn't even do that much.
@John
Opera DOES support flash, you just have to install flash lite separately
and skyfire has server-side flash support. it's probably the best browser for flash
Dude, Skyfire does do that much.
Skyfire loads pages faster than IE or Mozilla. I would like to see a Skyfire PC Browser.
There is a browser being develop, The Skyfire, with flash/java meaning it is capable of streaming video without opening any player. Check out www.skyfire.com. It is still in it's beta stage and few can get it according to who the company feel like sharing the software with.
ew
Why are you such an Apple fanboy. I have an iMac and an iPhone 3G but I'm not stupid like you.
I smell a huge contradiction to the above statement.
BAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
humbug?
Ok, so who wants to buy my iPhone 3G for $300? Anyone?!
I'm going to be selling mine Also .....Way too many damn problems with my 3G IPHONE. I hate it! I also hate that stupid predictive texting you CAN'T TURN OFF!!
Stupid Apple!! You've lost me as a customer and countless others that you jacked with your buggy , problem full 3G Iphone.
$400 with a 2yr contract is a lot. Mail in rebate sucks. Telus is offering this phone for $150 w/ 3 yr contract. This makes the iPhone look really inexpensive (not that I would buy one, but it does come with 2-4 times the storage memory). Bad move Sprint/HTC.
I agree. This is an awful lot to pay for a phone with only 4gigs and no expansion. This does not bode well for the price of the htc touch pro.
@Sprint I really enjoy your network and I was hoping to stay with you, but you have to help us out.
??? MIB might suck but it’s still $100. And why does this make the iphone look really inexpensive? Did you do the math? SERO plan… $30/mo At&t for the same specs $70-80/mo
HTC $300 after MIB
Iphone $200
$100 difference… do the math…
Also the Iphone came out so expensive for first gen.
Either way I agree that it is too expensive. A more appropriate price would be $200. They will probably drop the price in a few months. Either that or people will find loop holes around it.
@ Deekoi
The problem is that SERO is no longer available. Great deal if you are grandfathered in. Not so great otherwise. When you compare the SEP to the iPhone plan you basically get text messaging as the only bonus. That's not good enough.
I really dislike the iPhone. However, it's hard to justify paying $100 more for the Diamond vs the iPhone.
so can I get this w/ my existing sero plan? If so, I guess I have to pay 549? I hope they don't lock this down to the simply everything plan...
For an extra $100 you get A2DP, 3.2 megapixels vs 2, an auto-focus camera vs a fixed focus one, and a higher resolution screen. You also avoid the kill switch ;)
Do the math for the cost of the phone, plus what your monthly rate would be for an iphone 3G vs, this device and I guarantee you will still spend $200 less on this phone over the life of your contract vs an iPhone. People are soooooo short sighted and well...stupid...AT&T and Apple upped the total cost from the original iPhone to the iPhone 3G, you actually are going to spend $300-500 more than the original despite them "dropping the sticker price" on the 3G. Maybe Sprint should have a commercial that does the math in real big numbers for people like you. LOL
Where is my Touch Diamond Verizon? kthxbai
that looks pretty cool. that's a 400-500 dollars off contract discount, considering compusa/tiger direct had it for 799 for a while.
$299??? I'M BROKE BIATCH!!
sell your pda and get the money up that way.
i sold my xv6800 in aticipation to get the pro from verizon. im using my 700wx until this bad boy is released.
you need to learn how to manage your phone purchases.
The only thing I can hope is they knock off some money like they did with the Instinct, when it went from $199 after rebates down to $129 in the days before it's release. Hopefully that is some sort of plan to keep the Instinct sales high for the next couple weeks.
I was planning on getting this, but making me put out double the cost of an Iphone, before I have to wait a couple months for my rebate and the fact that it's double the cost of the Canadian version is just all around ridiculous.
I guess I'm going to cancel Sprint to get the HTC Dream.
i wouldnt depend on that type of drop on business phones if i were you. the palm 800 hasnt done that, dont expect these phones to do that.
these are professional phones, the instinct is a toy
Its good to see Sprint cozy up with HTC. Maybe we will see the HTC Dream with Android on Sprint before too long.
Don't worry they will! They already have an agreement with HTC to develop an Android phone for them. I hate to say it, cause I couldn't wait to get out of my contract with Sprint, but what better company to be with right now than one that is fighting tooth and nail to keep my business? I mean I have always loved thier network, now with these new great phones that they are getting, the prices of their plans and the huge effort they are making to turn their customer service around they are starting to win me over. I mean at least they are not rolling over and dying right? I gotta hand it to them, they know they have a terrible reputation, but they are literally bending over backwards for their customer right now and making me think about sticking it out with them for another two years with this phone. Sprint, from someone who was about to jump ship and was the first to talk bad about you, I applaude your efforts!!! Startin to look like a new better company!!!
Don't worry they will! They already have an agreement with HTC to develop an Android phone for them. I hate to say it, cause I couldn't wait to get out of my contract with Sprint, but what better company to be with right now than one that is fighting tooth and nail to keep my business? I mean I have always loved thier network, now with these new great phones that they are getting, the prices of their plans and the huge effort they are making to turn their customer service around they are starting to win me over. I mean at least they are not rolling over and dying right? I gotta hand it to them, they know they have a terrible reputation, but they are literally bending over backwards for their customer right now and making me think about sticking it out with them for another two years with this phone. Sprint, from someone who was about to jump ship and was the first to talk bad about you, I applaude your efforts!!!
Startin to look like a new better company!!!
Don't worry they will! They already have an agreement with HTC to develop an Android phone for them. I hate to say it, cause I couldn't wait to get out of my contract with Sprint, but what better company to be with right now than one that is fighting tooth and nail to keep my business? I mean I have always loved thier network, now with these new great phones that they are getting, the prices of their plans and the huge effort they are making to turn their customer service around they are starting to win me over. I mean at least they are not rolling over and dying right? I gotta hand it to them, they know they have a terrible reputation, but they are literally bending over backwards for their customer right now and making me think about sticking it out with them for another two years with this phone. Sprint, from someone who was about to jump ship and was the first to talk bad about you, I applaude your efforts!!!
Startin to look like a new better company!!!
Sorry!! First time user here, couldn't figure out how to post comments, looks like I accidentally did it three times. My bad, won't happen again.
This won't save Sprint's butt....they will be gobbled up by someone (Verizon).
I'd put my money on Google gobbling Sprint:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/google-to-acquire-sprint-nextel-for-mobile-wimax/
i'm not homophobic or anything but...
Launch Presentation on Sept 2nd? I wonder how many days after a launch presentation does a phone typically get released?