[Tiberius85]

Im sure many of you feel the same regardless of the fact that Sprint is getting a phone with identical specs, or near identical specs to the GSM version.

WHY CANT THESE STUPID CARRIERS LEAVE THE ****ING PHONES ALONE?!!

The GSM versions of the Diamond and the Touch Pro are downright gorgeous and sexy. The names are good too.. Diamond is great, Touch Pro isnt as nifty but its not bad. The square form factors define them.

Why does Sprint and Verizon feel the need to take these phones that we desire so much, slap their branding all over them, request different styles, colors, slightly different design and different specs, and name them the suckiest names they can come up with??

They had a golden opportunity to position these phones as iphone competetors but no... they wanted the Instinct and the Dare to be their defining phones. I understand that the CDMA carriers have a different business model.. they sell the phones as a key component to their phone service, but COME ON HERE! This is downright stupid!

I think you all believe that Verizon is run by a bunch of retards.. WHY THE **** would they REMOVE the Accelerometor from their phone? Perhaps its part of the older (read: cheaper) chipset MSM7500 that is currently in their XV6800 because they think their smartphone customers are too ****ing stupid to notice the difference. None of that document about what Verizon is doing to it makes any sense whatsoever.. they are intentionally crippling the device and turning it into a second rate piece of ****. Basically, its become a XV6800 with a VGA screen and twice as much RAM, thats probably half eaten by the graphics chip so it will probably be as ****ty as the XV6800 RAM wise.

Why does Sprint name their device the HTC HERMAN?!!

My only answer ive come up with is this is NOT the name they are giving the device. It is an internal code name to differentiate this particular form factor from the GSM standard form factor, much how like the GSM HTC Victor was released as a different form factor of the Diamond, but still sold as the HTC Diamond to consumers. The internal documents sprint has leaked show that it is being called the Sprint Touch Diamond, so chances are they will sell it as the Sprint Diamond or some such thing and not the Sprint HTC Victor. Make sense?

In my thinking:

HTC Diamond = Squared form factor
HTC Raphael = Squared form factor aka Touch Pro
HTC Victor = Rounded form factor (Diamond)
HTC Herman = Rounded form factor (Raphael)

As for why Verizon calls theirs the Diamond and Raphael in that document? Probably since its an INTERNAL Sprint document not designed for our consumption, its probably using the other code name to contrast Sprint's products with what Verizon is supposed to get.

Assuming these documents are right Verizon is opting for the **** version, and id BET MY LIFE the price for the phones will be the same between Sprint and Verizon... cheap greedy ****ing bastards. (I'm a Sprint customer btw)

But really, all I want to know is why the CDMA carriers cant get a phone unmolested, unaltered (save the CDMA bands) and visually the EXACT SAME PHONE as the GSM versions? Is that really too much to ask?