Comments on: First Official Sprint Diamond Images Surface, Specifications and Launch Date Set

By: rayce

rayce — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:02:16 +0000

Chris, does anyone know when the Touch Diamond Pro will be launched from Sprint?

By: conrad

conrad — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:09:13 +0000

i read this article… what do you think?

UNCONFIRMED: Sprint to launch the HTC Touch Diamond during August
While neither Sprint nor HTC made any official announcements yet, Taiwanese’ “The China Post” unveiled in its Saturday issue, that “the company [HTC] begin selling the handset [HTC Touch Diamond] through Sprint Nextel Corp. in August”. This would make perfect sense since the EVDO Touch Diamond is on sale in Canada already and photos of a Sprint branded HTC Touch Diamond was spotted earlier already.
If Sprint is going to release the HTC Touch Diamond in the U.S., it’s most likely that Sprint’s version shares the feature-set of Telus Mobility’s HTC Touch Diamond including Windows Mobile 6.1, EVDO Rev. A high-speed

By: JSS

JSS — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:18:28 +0000

garbage… the one i’m looking for is the HTC pro… any idea when it’s going to be launched in sprint?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:20:34 +0000

To Bob Fran: No, this is not the one with the full keyboard like the PPC cousin. That one is called the Pro (not sure what Sprint will be nicknaming it).

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:48:06 +0000

Yes, it will have GPS on Sprint, and probably on Verizon as well.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:33:46 +0000

GPS ?

By: kris H.

kris H. — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:46:09 +0000

How much will this be with a new 2 yr or upgrade?

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:23:17 +0000

QChat is a very complex system… it will be awhile before it shows up in a PDA or Smartphone. Sprint would love to have QChat in every phone, today. But, it’s a difficult platform with only one customer (Sprint). As such, device makers are struggling with getting it to pass Sprint’s quality standards. It has to work as good as Nextel/iDEN before Sprint will approve it.

I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that HTC hasn’t even started on QChat support.

By: ryan rydell

ryan rydell — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:43:07 +0000

good question dustin…

maybe its cause sprint thinks the majority of the DC customers are not gonna spend the money on this device, and/or even need/desire such a kick butt phone…which would be very smart of them

maybe its cause sprint thinks that only offering a small list of decent phones with QC is a good way of showing people they care about the DC customer and getting them to switch from iDEN to CDMA…which would be very stupid of them…

so, they are either really smart or really stupid…take your pick.

side note…am i the only one that is suprised to see more people talking about the source of the pic, rather than the news itself…HHMM

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:38:01 +0000

Josh, you may feel that you’re right, but your premise is incorrect.

If we announce who-leaks-what, it is a tacit approval of that process. We feel that is both a threat to sources, and to the media to do. As such, we only identify original sources.

Now, some would say why we report on this at all… the reason is, it is still news, and it would be equally wrong for us to not report on it.

So, we have to walk a fine line. There is no policy that will make everyone happy on this, we’re simply doing the best we can in a new age of media.