Sprint, Bluefish taking names for Touch Diamond, September release confirmed

by Chris Ziegler posted Aug 30th 2008 at 10:02PM

Everything prior had been rumors, hearsay, speculation, and leaked documents -- but now that Sprint has something out in the open, it's going to be a whole hell of a lot more difficult to renege on that September time frame we'd all been pulling for. The carrier and partner Bluefish have thrown up a site taking names and email addresses to be notified when the Touch Diamond is available for purchase; no exact date is given (we wouldn't be surprised if Sprint still hadn't decided on that), but they do mention that it's "coming in September." That gives 'em a full 30 days to make good -- but if it just happened to roll out on September 2 like we'd originally heard, we don't think we'll be seeing too many complaints around here.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Sprint, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA

Tags: htc, pre order, PreOrder, sprint, touch diamond, TouchDiamond, touchflo 3d, Touchflo3d, windows mobile, windows mobile 6.1, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.1, winmo, wm6.1

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TIM @ Aug 30th 2008 10:59PM

Hooray! This means the Touch Pro is at most 2 months away!

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John @ Aug 30th 2008 11:00PM

Rumors are for the 2nd or the 14th. I hope as hell its the 2nd though... going order one as soon as its out!

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Derek @ Aug 30th 2008 11:30PM

They need to say if it has that blasted red-back or not... that could be a deal breaker.

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mafiaboy01 @ Aug 30th 2008 11:49PM

Why does it have a picture of the GSM Touch Diamond?

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Danny @ Aug 31st 2008 12:59AM

The Touch Pro is comming out October 19th for Sprint.

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VaLiuMDriP @ Aug 31st 2008 1:20AM

YIPPIE!!! I'm the first one to mention the iPhone! Wait...who gives a shit. Jobs blows goats and I have the pics.

This is DEFINITELY the BEST phone to land this year (Until the Touch Pro). I'm sure that there will not be a line of dumbasses around the block waiting for the store to open. But those of us who were brave enough to stick with Sprint's sorry ass will be walking past all of you glorified iPod owners petting "The Precious", and laughing while watching you try to make a call. See what you get for disobeying one of the Ten Commandments. Thou Shall Have No Other God... A.K.A. Thou Shall Not Worship Fruit!

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Yevon @ Aug 31st 2008 10:23AM

Mind sharing those pics with the rest of the class? Please?

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jondastunna84 @ Aug 31st 2008 1:39AM

hey danny i hope your right, but what are your sources???

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jondastunna84 @ Aug 31st 2008 1:41AM

danny i hope you right!! but i wanna see your sources :-/

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Jon Doe @ Aug 31st 2008 2:01AM

As a Sprint employee I got confirmation today that it will be on the 14th. In most in directs and retail stores around the 20th.....

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Ben @ Aug 31st 2008 2:03AM

I'm ordering this phone the first second i see its released.

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anon @ Aug 31st 2008 8:00AM

HTC Touch Diamond

* Net Price: $249.99 (SRP: $549.99)

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Level 5 @ Aug 31st 2008 10:10AM

Score! Now all I need to do is wait on the Touch Pro.. then somehow twist their insurance into replacing my current PDA with one ftw!

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KilgoreTrout @ Aug 31st 2008 3:10PM

Here on the right side of the pond this thing has been for sale for months; and belive me , my N95 8GB still makes every touch diamond owner hide in shame.
By October we have been promised the Samsung omnia and the SE X1 experia, plus the HTC dream before the holiday season.
Then , as soon as one of those shows up in Yurop I´ll pension my N95, but not before.
Surely not for a substandard AGPS , a puny 3Mpix camera, 4 GB of non expandable memory and an awkward UI.
I dunno about the touch pro but when finally it will come out it will surely have a tough time cutting out some space for itself against the competition.

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LostProphet @ Sep 1st 2008 10:21AM

The touch pro is already out "on the right side of the pond", and has been for a while. I have mine in my hand right now, and as a former N95 8GB owner, the TP wipes the floor with it in every respect bar none. And the only way the N95 beats the diamond is in capacity and camera (and I have a digital camera, I've never understood ones built into phones).

Both touches have better hardware, better interfaces, better software, and better build quality. The x1 is a buggy piece of poorly built **** which has been delayed until next year, and if you think the touch diamond UI is awkward then you have never used one, it's smooth, intuative and it works.

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LostProphet @ Sep 1st 2008 10:24AM

As for the omina, the widget interface is a nice toy, but not really practical. It's a great phone, but it doesn't cut it as a smartphone

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Freakin Ijit @ Aug 31st 2008 8:07PM

Why would they just start carrying the Treo 800W, another high-end Windows Mobile device, then bring this out?

Cannibalization anyone?

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cocoviper @ Sep 1st 2008 1:42PM

I think the Treo 800 and these HTC phones are definitely targeted at different demographics...

I mean they are about as different as possible while still sharing a common feature (WM)

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Rogue_Genius @ Sep 1st 2008 12:37PM

I don't think they will suffer much cannibalization. With this particular Diamond being a Sprint phone and not at all related to AT&T and GSM...

But, if they were then AT&T would be well-served to release multiple smartphones, provided each phone offers different benefits to the consumer. If you offer three of the same phone then yes, that would be a waste. The treo 800W has a different form-factor (some folks don't want a slide-out qwerty), the Touch Diamond has no keyboard but does have TouchFlo 3D, the Touch Pro has the interface AND slide-out qwerty...and the X1 (whenever it arrives) has a (slightly different 4-line) qwerty and panels interface. You really do have your pick as a consumer.

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