The Holidays Come Early: Sprint Releases HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro
Posted on 10 September 2008, at 9:01 am, by Judie Lipsett
Look at Sprint getting all the cool devices now that I am no longer a customer! What’s up with that?!
Fresh on the heels of their Palm Treo 800w release comes two new HTC creations, the Touch Diamond and the Touch Pro. I have a Sprint branded Touch Diamond review unit coming, and it will be interesting to see if I have better luck with the US version than Mitchell had with his Euro one. I’ve also been told that there is a Pro review unit with my name on it; that’s the one I have been dying to try. In the meantime, here are some drool-worthy photos to whet your appetite. The full press release is at the bottom of this post…
HTC Touch Pro
The HTC Touch Diamond will be available in September and will cost $249.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. The HTC Touch Pro will be available in all Sprint retail channels beginning Oct. 19 for $299.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate.
HTC Touch Pro
Sprint just officially announced that the HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro will be joining Sprint’s product portfolio in time for the holiday season. HTC is excited to continue the long tradition of working together with Sprint to bring cutting edge products like the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro to market.
Stylishly sleek, these devices set a new benchmark for mobile sophistication by introducing TouchFLO™ 3D, an unparalleled touch experience that puts live television, weather, email, photos, contacts, music and more at your fingertips.
The HTC Touch Diamond and The HTC Touch Pro leverage the broad functionality of Windows Mobile 6.1 and use a new customized Web browser that enables easy viewing and effortless navigation of Web sites in the way they were designed. As part of this browsing experience, users can zoom and pan Web sites with one-hand and automatically view mobile-optimized content that has been specially created to fit the display. Using gravity-sensor technology, turning the device sideways automatically rotates the Web page view from a portrait to landscape view.
HTC Touch ProWith 2.8 inch high-resolution VGA displays, the HTC Touch Diamond and the HTC Touch Pro deliver a full package of features and functionality, including the above-mentioned Opera-powered browser with Wi-Fi capability; a customized, HTC-developed YouTube application for watching user-generated video content; and quick access to Sprint TVSM with an extensive selection of live and on demand video. It boasts a 3.2 MP camera/camcorder with auto focus and access to Sprint Picture MailSM to easily share images. The HTC Touch Pro’s built-in camera also features a flash.
The HTC Touch Pro brings a similarly sophisticated style and feature set to that found on the HTC Touch Diamond and also adds a variety of business-focused enhancements that make getting work done on the go quick and easy – including a five-row, slide-out QWERTY keyboard for easy data entry, expandable storage capabilities with a microSD card slot (1 GB card included) and a business card scanner application.
HTC Touch DiamondThe HTC Touch Diamond will be available in September and will cost $249.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. The HTC Touch Pro will be available in all Sprint retail channels beginning Oct. 19 for $299.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate.
HTC Touch DiamondAccording to the vice president of HTC America, Jason Mackenzie, “Combining Sprint’s mobile broadband connectivity with HTC’s deep desire to blend innovative design with intuitive simplicity sets the HTC Touch Diamond and the HTC Touch Pro apart from other touch-screen phones. HTC Touch Diamond gives users one-touch access to every aspect of their life and transcends texting and dialing to provide a rich mobile Internet experience unlike anything available on the market today. The HTC Touch Pro combines business with pleasure by offering one-handed operation of simple tasks and a full keyboard input for serious work.”
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September 10th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Sprint also just announced the LG Lotus which is the form factor I have always craved. A small flip phone with a qwerty keypad! Now if it only ran Palm OS… never satisfied.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:10 am
I hear you Mark.
The Lotus is a lovely little phone, too.
http://newsreleases.sprint.com.....1622&
Lots of eye candy from Sprint for the Holidays, for sure!
September 10th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Now waiting on the Pro from ATT. I really don’t want to switch to Sprint. Of course, I’ll be saving my money to afford it. It does make desiring a Tilt kind of futile.
Any news on whether or not this supports the higher capacity MicroSD cards? (4GB+)