HTC passes CDMA / GSM hybrid Touch Pro2 through the FCC

Remember that Touch Pro2 we saw in Sprint livery yesterday? A leaked roadmap indicated that this would be a global roaming device packing both CDMA and GSM radios -- and Telus' inventory system certainly corroborates the existence of such a device. Further proof now comes to us in the form of an FCC filing for yet another variant of the Rhodium (HTC's codename for the Touch Pro2), and while only CDMA is being tested here, there's also some assurance from HTC that the FCC needn't worry about the locked-down GSM radio lying dormant in there. In other words, it'll only be used outside US borders -- places the FCC doesn't give two flips about. Even better, there are actually two versions being referred to here -- the RHOD400 and RHOD500 -- which could very well represent separate bodies for Sprint and Verizon. As if you needed another reason to upgrade from the original Touch Pro, Sprint folks... well, here you go.

[SParklingCYaNide Posted May 20th 2009 6:18PM]

Sounds like good News to me! = D

[(Unverified) Posted May 20th 2009 7:47PM]

How long before someone hacks them and unlocks them? I know for a fact the GSM works in the US on these if the unit is unlocked.

[michaelbrandonw Posted May 20th 2009 8:39PM]

The other one better be for VZW! I am hoping for a summer TP2 release on VZW, September latest.

[reisse Posted May 21st 2009 1:53AM]

why would you want this on vzw they will just cripple it like they did with the touch pro

[Esquire0399 Posted May 21st 2009 11:19AM]

Because "crippled" or not, it would be nice for the VZW customers of us to have the opportunity to get the TP2 just like everyone else.

BTW, would everyone PLEASE stop using the word "crippled"? It's getting old. Find a new word please.

[Blad3 Posted May 21st 2009 3:02PM]

severely mentally handicapped?

[(Unverified) Posted May 21st 2009 3:39PM]

It would be nice for us VZW to get our hands on ANY of the new smartphones. I am a business user desperate to replace/upgrade from my Treo 700WX.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 4th 2009 12:06PM]

If you look at page 24 of the FCC HAC Test for T-Coil, they actually have a picture of the phone being tested . . . .

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 4th 2009 3:25PM]

CDMA is the main network in the US? Really?