Verizon, Sprint To Get HTC Diamond

The HTC Touch Diamond, one of the sickest and best customized Windows Mobile Based Phones devices to date, will be coming to Verizon and Sprint in September/October. We’re going to have a lot of happy CDMA-ers with the details.

We already know that there is touch screen only version of the Diamond and also a full QWERTY slide version that had been dubbed the Touch Pro. Verizon and Sprint will both get each of these… but their naming of the models is much, much different.

Verizon is calling their base model simply “HTC Diamond” and the Touch Pro version is the “HTC Raphael”. Sounds pretty decent. Sprint, however, is naming their base model the HTC Victor and the Touch Pro version will be called the “HTC Herman”. Are you kidding me? Take a completly new, cutting edge product that you claim is ground breaking and slap on a name that sounds more fit for a character on the Adam’s Family.

These could just be internal codenames and even as codenames the word/source isn’t official. BUT if the documents below really are internal Sprint documents then there is little question that above information is spot on:

For a lot of people, the launch date can’t come soon enough. We tend to agree.

[Via PhoneArena, the::unwired]

HTC Diamond Available At… CompUSA?

We’ve been wondering when the HTC Touch Diamond would knock on the American door and it finally has, thanks to the hospitality of the folks at CompUSA had 200+ stores nationwide but they’re now down to about 16 stores and have been purchased by Systemax to help build the assets and value of their TigerDirect subsidiary.

Curiously enough, TigerDirect doesn’t feature the phone on THEIR website but CompUSA does. And while we don’t really care what retailer gets it, we do care about some of the info dropped on that CompUSA page.

For one, it’ll sport a tri-band GSM Radio and it features GPS, WiFi and 3G connectivity. The doozy here is that it will cost $780 without a contract. So, even if you’re looking at a $200 discount for 2-year contract and some type of mail in rebate for $100, the phone is still around the $400 mark. Ouch.

We’d like to compare this with the American version of the HTC Touch Pro, spec for spec and price for price. Because if you’re already spending $400+, why not shell out a tiny bit more and get the works?

[Via IntoMobile]

HTC Diamond Tour & Accessories

So the recent release of the HTC Cubic Zirconia was all but ignored considering that the HTC Diamond is well on its way to becoming one of the top tier powerhouses in the mobile world.

Well, for folks who feel the same way and are eager for the Diamond to hit the streets, we wanted to let you know that HTC has a little promo site and tour of for the diamond. You can visit it here.

[Via HTC]

HTC Touch Diamond Pictures, Unboxing

Ooh La La… the HTC Touch Diamond is looking better with each and every passing day. When the (somewhat) mysterious product was announced, many were disappointed HTC’s forthcoming Android phone wasn’t the cause, but these pictures are making us feel a lot better about the whole thing.

Diamonds may be forever, but when does forever start?