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Sprint Delays HTC Touch Pro Launch
Sprint is confirming that the long-awaited HTC Touch Pro smart device will be delayed from its original launch date of October 19th to a new window between the end of the month into early November.
The reason given by representatives for the delay concerns issues with adequate supply to meet the expected high demand for the device as the holiday season draws near, as well as having enough stock for third-party retailers such as Best Buy before the national launch through Sprint sales channels, making this the first Sprint HTC device to launch through a third-party before launching directly through the carrier sales network.
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Where is this news coming from? As of today internal paperwork still shows the 19th as the soft launch date (as in Telesales only).
I bet it will still launch through Telesales on 10-19-08. The company I work for ships Best Buy all their phones and we have yet to receive any from Sprint so it will not be launching through 3rd party stores this Sunday.
Well, I guess there’s one less thing I’ll be doing this weekend, picking up my Touch Pro from a local Sprint store.
I think a call to Telesales on Sunday wouldn’t be a bad idea, just in case.
I got the memo from a DM in Dallas last night that was sent out to all corporate employees a month ago regarding this and the story reflects multiple other Sprint representatives who are now saying the same thing regarding the Pro launch.
The store launch is pushed back to the 24th because HTC is experiencing production shortages and wants to make sure everyone can have enough stock. As of right now, the Rant, Highnote, and Lotus are listed in Brightpoint as active for launch this weekend.
nyack, new york sprint store says they will be selling it on the 19th. manager showed me one from stock. shhh.
Well, I cant tell you that retails store will not be selling the phone on the 19th as we do not have any stock of the Touch Pro. We do have stock on the High Note, Rant, and Lotus however.
who cares if they dont have enough let those of us who will get there first have them this weekend the slow pokes can wait till next week lol
PS i talked to a rep this afternoon err friday afternoon they said still plan to launch it sunday.
Can someone tell me what’s the difference between the diamond and pro…
The PRO has a Slide out Keyboard
512 Rom
Micro SD slot
Thats about it Jon
Did anyone get their hands on one this weekend?
it also comes with a flash
I work for sprint roughly about a month ago htc came by and brought 15 htc pro touch to give us some training i work as technical support played with for about 7 hours and it was Great!!!!!!! Ima trade in my instinct for the phone i was suppose to get it the 17th
pro has a the following differences vs diamond
- slide out keyboard
- camera flash
- external memory – micro sd
- business card reader with camera
- 512mb rom vs 256mb