We figured the suits over at T-Mobile USA were on some of that good stuff when they
slapped an almost comical $350 (on contract) price tag on HTC's
Touch Pro2, but evidently said "stuff" has made its way into the halls of Overland Park as well. After months of watching
evidence mount, Sprint has finally come clean and admitted that HTC's EV-DO Rev. A-equipped superphone is coming to its network, and with it will come access to Sprint TV as well as NFL Mobile Live and NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile apps. The smartphone will go on sale
September 8th, though you'll have to pony up $349.99 (after a $100 mail-in rebate) in order to secure one on a two-year contract. We're all about that 3.6-inch WVGA tilting screen, but with Palm's
Pre selling on this very network for a full $150 less, we're thinking this one won't appeal to many outside of the WinMo faithful.
posted Aug 31st 2009 2:47PM
YES!!!! This is all i need.
WinMo Rulezz!!!
Gonna buy this!!! All other crappy phones with craptastic OSes can say goodbye.
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yes. you can finally buy it. now please shut up.
Arrg.. More and more handset makers are moving away from Windows Mobile. Another word,
Windows Mobile has demised!
my comments were not offensive but they were removed, yet this comment is here?
Oops, original comment was deleted. My bad. :)
I consider myself WinMo faithful, but not *that* WinMo faithful. Will wait a few months and assume the price will drop...as long as people find a good workaround for the lack of D-pad.
I realized that the lack of D-Pad only affects my Tetris game. Outside of that, I never really use it.
I'm not so sure that the lack of D-Pad is a real issue. I've spent a great deal of time wit hthe Pro2 already and can say that you hardly notice it's gone. The screen is so big that it's almost impossible to think of another way to interact with the handset.
http://htcsource.com
I have had an HTC touchHD since last november and was thinking of upgrading to this TP2 until one of my collegues bought one and I actually had occasion to play a little with it and I realized that my old TouchHD (once you downloaded a nice k-board and pimped it up a bit) was still a better phone with a 5mpx cam instead of the 3mpx of the TP2, and it's much cooler, thin and sexy too.
Instead of the TP2 so I bought a Nokia N97, which disappointed me when I just bought it , but now after two new ROMs in a month and more than 1 update a day by Nokia, and themes and apps dowload has finally became the superphone it should have been from the beginning.
Before the N97 became great however I was still disappointed and so I bought an iPhone 3GS which disappointed me even more.
This time I ran back to the store before the 7 days return were gone and I had it exchanged with an HTC Hero, which I loved from the very first day, but lacks a voice dialing app which for me (sitting in a car most of my waking hours) is a pretty necessary function.
So, now I have the rejouvenated N97 which has become too good to give up; the HTC Hero which was a joy from the very beginning and wich has the best and the most free apps than any other OS; and I also have my old trusty HTC TouchHD because probably is still the best of them all.
Now I just wait for the N900 to sell them all, even though I know that when HTC will show me a Leo with its Spapdragon and Win 6.5 I don't think I will be able to resist no matter how good the N900 turns out to be.
this tells you how expensive Winmo 7 phones will be when they come out. Probably will get Hero if it's compatible with Sero.
Hero on Sero for zeu Win
dude... 350 is pretty steep. You can get this on T-Mobile through various deals for like 149
how so ? I have TMO
A quick search on letstalk.com shows a deal for $199.99. I think it requires new service though.
If I go to Sprint, it will be for the Hero.
I would of half-expected Sprint to have the better looking variant of the Pro2, considering the original's details on this specific carrier. Guess they have to balance the shiny pebble with a fuck-ugly brick. I would take the T-Mocha, though. Still an awesome phone.
Amazon has the Tmobile TouchPro2 right now for $149 with new service
The TMO version's $199 price point was available from day one through 3rd parties like letstalk, though I think the $150 took a while to happen. This despite the similar "$350?!?" blog posts all over the intertubes.
*sigh*
i was winmo faithful, now moving onwards.
too hard to use it with resistive screen, small objects and so forth.
looking forward to the HERO, it better be priced correctly too.
wouldnt small objects be even harder to manipulate on a capacitive then
yes it would be harder if winmo was capacitive (maybe? since none has come out yet), but capacitive screens are easier to use with different operating systems.
ie - iphone, android.
one can defend the winmo environment all they want, but at the end of the day, 6.X is long in the tooth and not optimized for today's average user. I may return to winmo with 7, who knows.
This isn't your grandpa's (or eh, you know, your slightly older twin's) resistive screen.
I wouldn't write it off based on older models.
Bout time.
You think that is crazy. The wackos over at ATT are still charging $350 for the old touch pro and they have the iPhone 3G for 99 on thier network.
The old touch pro is still $300 from Sprint. If it stays that way after the 8th that will be crazy.
Well, Windows Mobile has been losing ground in the consumer market. Maybe they figure this will only appeal to business users who can afford to pay more. Maybe they're tired of subsidizing the living daylights out of smartphones. Who knows?
So this means probably $400-$450 from verizon (after $70 rebate.)
Actually, Verizon undercut Sprint on the HTC Snap/Ozone... maybe they've figured out that since they're making craploads of money on their data plans anyway, the phone's base price doesn't matter as much.
I was thinking more like $500-600...but who knows, maybe they will suprise me.
Oh well, not like I am paying for it :-)
I am a WinMo faithful but I will not buy this for $350. It sucks because I have been looking forward to this phone to update my HTC Touch but not at that price. I have also been a Sprint customer for 8 years but will gladly jump ship for a better deal on a phone.
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Anyone know if it will available on some kind of sero plan? Not worth paying 350 and then add extra monthly charges as well.
WTF is wrong you sprint? This could easly be a $250 phone why mark it up so high? Err I guess Ill be sticking with my Pre for a while till the TD2 comes out!!!
Wow
and it was about that time that I realized Sprint was really a three-story tall Lochness monster...
and I said G** D**** MONSTER! I ain't givin you no tree-fiddy!
Thank you. This made bad news better. Well...I may be getting a Pre. Sprint is a God damned succubus.
AT&T is da devil!
I just had to log on to say BRAVO sir. Comment of the week.
T-Mobile, $150 Touch Pro 2 through Amazon
Once the phone launches, you'll have the option to pick it up from 3rd party vendors (Amazin, The Shack, Wirefly) probably for about $149. Onnly problem is that they will only give you that price if you are a NEW customer. If you're a Sprint customer already you'll have to pay the full $349
http://htcsource.com
I'm thinking they put too much stock in Palm to allow any other phone to actually compete strongly with it. Ditto for T-mobile and Android.
Because if they put the phone showing a vertical image on a landscaped device, it would be false advertising?
That is, unless the TouchPro 2's accelerometer somehow changes the orientation of the image, even when the device is slid open. Highly unlikely, though.
that's the price for show-offs who gotta have the latest. I will wait for my touch pro is no longer available as replacement and score a touch pro2 with a deductible on my SERO!
Ha, What do you think they will replace my "non-functioning" Moto Q with if I take it for replacement?
A Hero when it comes out?
How do you make your phone eligible for insurance replacement?
you'll score a touch pro refurb for replacement.... i did an "job" on my original moto Q just last year (long gone from Sprint's sales) and got a refurb (like new) moto Q.
Judging from that, ahem, "awesome" keyboard, it looks like Engadget types will be drooling over this WinMo-using brick. What WinMo faithful? You mean the handful of people that have been in comas for the last year or so. Or maybe the ones that get high from lapping up Steve Ballmer's sweat.
Or the people who use their phone instead of flaunt it as a fashion accessory. WinMo might not be as pretty as you Californian, Starbucks drinking, Mac using, She-Men like, but it has more apps and functionality then the iPhone, android, and WebOS.
$350 AFTER the $100 mail-in. I think the phone companies are assuming they can get us to pay more and keep us buying new phones every year. They'll learn otherwise soon enough.
It looks like a fantastic phone, but when I saw the price I backed away slowly.
But I don't get it. Doesn't this thing use the same processor, and same amount of ram as the Touch Pro 1? Isn't the only difference the screen, lack of hardware buttons on the face and size?
Slightly more memory than the Sprint Touch Pro (288 vs. 256), essentially the same processor, GSM capable, headphone jack, and a huge screen and thinner profile.
Most would have stopped reading after "essentially the same processor." The thing is a dog.
As if VGA wasn't enough of a strain on it. Toss in another 76,800 pixels to process. That will make things better.
HTC is dead to me while they are in "clear inventory" mode.
anyone who'd still "pay" for a WinMo phone this day and age has got to be _____