While it is no mystery that Sprint plans on releasing the HTC Touch Diamond with slightly rounded edges similar to the HTC Victor (Taiwanese release of HTC Touch Diamond), the big shocker today is the mystery color: red. In surprising post over at Sprintusers a forum member decided to release three pictures of the CDMA Sprint HTC Touch Diamond in a dark red and revealed that Sprint would be offering the device in several colors at launch.
While the Palm Centro dropped with two color choices (first black then red one month later), we can’t help but think that this is an excellent photoshop job and that the device will only be released in black at launch. Regardless of what colors Sprint decides for the launch of their HTC Touch Diamond, the anticipation is growing with every day users realize the limited functionality of the Samsung Instinct’s email client in the corporate environment.
We expect to see the Sprint HTC Touch Diamond hit retail stores in the next two months (end of Sept, early Oct). With a price tag still up for grabs we are going to bet that Sprint positions the Touch Diamond right in line with the iPhone 3G or possibly slightly less since the Touch Diamond only has 4GB of internal storage vs the 8GB in $199 iPhone 3G. We won’t cross our fingers on this one though after seeing Rogers Canada drop the $399 price tag for the BlackBerry Bold.
Update Sept 10th: Today Sprint issued a Press Release outlining several device launches but most importantly they confirmed the September launch of the Touch Diamond and October launch of the Touch Pro. According to the Press Release, the HTC Touch Diamond will be available beginning in September. It will cost $249.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. HTC Touch Pro will be available Oct. 19 for $299.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. It looks like Sprint will take the cake as the first US carrier to launch either of these devices unless we see At&t bump up their release date unexpectedly.
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