Best Buy preps unlocked Touch Diamond for retail

by Chris Ziegler posted Sep 7th 2008 at 5:57PM

So the good news here is that Best Buy's getting ready to open its arms to yet another HTC product that's impossible to find by wandering into the brick-and-mortar store of the US wireless carrier of your choice; the bad news, though, is that it doesn't seem to be the version we wanted. The Touch Diamond now has a Coming Soon page all its own on Best Buy's site, which is just fantastic considering that neither AT&T nor T-Mobile have yet bothered to pick it up -- but the problem is that the specifications make no mention of US 3G despite the fact that we know there's just such a version floating around. Our hope is that we've just caught the big box with its pants down (wouldn't be the first time) and they'll look into carrying the real deal by the time "coming soon" switches to "in stock," especially since they've given the Touch Dual the same courtesy.

[Thanks, Mark]

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Tags: best buy, BestBuy, htc, touch diamond, TouchDiamond, touchflo 3d, Touchflo3d, windows mobile, windows mobile 6.1, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.1, winmo, wm6.1

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Apple Rep. @ Sep 7th 2008 6:07PM

Im not liking the look of this at all. ill sum it up in one word, WINMO. Until microsoft is done copying apple to make winmo 7, i would never use it. (it will probably still suck)

winmo. lol. Its like a bad joke :)

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grull27 @ Sep 7th 2008 6:31PM

Did you have to post your crappy troll comment on Engadget and EngadgetMobile?!

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mweb586 @ Sep 7th 2008 6:37PM

First is the worst, second is the best. Expecially when the first guy is a WM hater.

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zephxiii @ Sep 7th 2008 6:48PM

@Apple rep: Why did you even bother posting such garbage?

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Blad3 @ Sep 7th 2008 8:47PM

its amazing all the apple complaints i've seen on many of apple's forums about some of this "stuff" you say makes the iphone better. hardly better if the 2nd gen has more problems than the 1st one had.

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X51v @ Sep 7th 2008 9:12PM

I think he speaks out of jealousy. I mean...in addition to iPhone's features, you also get: Copy/Paste, replaceable battery, syncronization with Exchange e-mail/calendar/tasklist right out of the box. Plus, all the things that Windows Mobile did first well before iPhone came out. I use Remote Desktop daily at work on my WM device...for the past 3 years.

I'd be a bitter iPhone user, too.

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mingkee @ Sep 7th 2008 9:43PM

at least WM is hackable, can it be done on iPhone?!

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zephxiii @ Sep 8th 2008 2:02PM

Garbage, as in Apple Rep.

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Connor Lugenbeel @ Sep 9th 2008 9:28PM

it is such a beatiful phone.....but winmo.....

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Sameer Surampalli @ Sep 7th 2008 7:38PM

I don't see why people hate on it that much. I mean, yes, the O/S is buggy, slow, chuggish, and eats up memory just like it's Windows counterpart.

BUT, manufacturers are still using it. It doesn't suck that much. It still is a legitimate O/S.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Microsoft fanboy... I do thoroughly enjoy the iPhone's O/S... but I carry neither O/S on my phone anyways... I'm rolling with Symbian on my N82.

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D W @ Sep 7th 2008 11:07PM

So you're saying mediocrity is a wonderful thing?

Get real, the only reason Microsoft's Windows Mobile is still alive is because of how tolerant people are to crap BETA software. Why not send a real message to them and quit buying it, at least until they finally get it.

(Full disclosure, no I don't own an iPhone, but I wouldn't be seen dead promoting a shoddy half baked platform).

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art vandelay @ Sep 7th 2008 7:42PM

so am i going to be able to pop my iphone sim card into this thing and be good? i have the first gen iphone, and am perfectly happy with edge.

while i'm at it, could i put my sim card in a iphone 3g and use it with edge?

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GoodWill8675 @ Sep 7th 2008 9:12PM

I agree with Apple Rep.
Ive never had so many problems with Windows Mobile.
I would give 7 a try, seeing as it looks like an Apple rip off. . . :)

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superklye @ Sep 7th 2008 9:21PM

Am I mistaken or was there no mention of the stupid fucking iPhone anywhere in this article?

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ez @ Sep 7th 2008 11:46PM

this thing would kick butt with a symbian ui.

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Brandon @ Sep 8th 2008 12:29AM

Uh...back to the phone itself...

Isn't AT&T releasing this as the Fuze?

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Wayne @ Sep 8th 2008 2:06AM

@ Brandon:

No you are thinking of the HTC Touch Pro

Hopefully Best Buy is selling the NA version so we can have some 3G and not the euro/asian/australian versions floating around

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StevenGlansburg @ Sep 8th 2008 2:07AM

Have any of you that love on this phone actually tried to use it to write an email or text? No, probably not. I have, and its awful. It is no iphone. The PRO with a keyboard will be alright, but if you want a phone with a keyboard you get a blackberry, not this P.O.S.

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Hush @ Sep 8th 2008 9:07AM

Whoa dude this phone makes no claims it has a keyboard. You obviously love the keyboard which I do too but don't force it down everyone's throat. What this phone does claim to be is sleek and super small and run more apps than any other phone in the world. Put this up next to a BlackBerry and the size difference is HUGE. I'm all about powerful features inside a small package. And yes I have used it and own a Touch. I also have used BlackBerries and I'm fine with the on screen keyboards.

To mention about the article not claiming 3G speeds I beg to differ.

"Operates on 850/900/1800/1900MHz networks
Ensures high-speed, always-on connectivity."

I can't imagine even Best Buy would think EDGE is "high-speed" in this day and age.

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Hush @ Sep 8th 2008 10:29AM

UPDATE:

BB pulled that page... Wonder why?

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rr @ Sep 8th 2008 9:07PM

the phone will be the 3g version. Thats just the tip of the iceberg though because the in stock date looks to be 9/28 but best buy is also showing the sony c902 in red and black and the nokia n96. Both are set for in stock 10/28

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JL @ Sep 8th 2008 3:44PM

Touch Diamond still there - just looked through BB's unlocked phones $699.99
Looked on BB's site @ 3:44pm EST

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Bob @ Sep 19th 2008 9:18AM

Picked mine up at Best Buy yesterday - sweet phone but seems dog slow and a little buggy. Played around with several of the known performance tweaks and they helped some but definately not perfect. More memory and a faster processor would have been a big help. I bought the Touch Dual from Best Buy in May and the performance was great - the Diamond is clearly slower but does have some features that are much nicer than the Dual. Decisions, decisions . . .