Sprint Diamond tentative release date

[Genjinaro]

Originally Posted by Eric Lensherr

Has a CDMA Touch Dual even gotten FCC approval yet? The CDMA Diamond's already approved by the FCC.

My thoughts exacty...

[Siflan]

I'll still hold my breath for the Touch Pro.

[asudevil]

Any idea on the price of the pro or diamond? Also, can someone else confirm that date. As of last week, Retention told me that it would be relesaed on sept 2nd. Hope it comes out sooner than later. BTW, would it make much sense to release four phones much less than two HTC smartphones? Wow, no wonder other countries get the best phones first!

[frentraken]

Touch dual likely had it's approval a while a go an no one cared, bell's launching it coming soon.

[marcus_cruz]

Well its in the works.
Heres a link with all sorts of info on the CDMA version.
http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&RequestTimeout =500&calledFromFrame=N&application_id=164185&fcc_i d=%27NM8DIAM500%27

[e.lamberson]

Any idea on the price of the pro or diamond? Also, can someone else confirm that date. As of last week, Retention told me that it would be relesaed on sept 2nd. Hope it comes out sooner than later. BTW, would it make much sense to release four phones much less than two HTC smartphones? Wow, no wonder other countries get the best phones first!

Has everyone here not yet learned that you can't take the word of Sprint's customer care for anything. For christ sake if you have a problem they generally tell you to go to the store for you're issue and then the store rep tells you something completely different. The turn over rate is so high in the call centers that the next person you get in contact with may be someone who has been there two weeks fresh out of training. Come on, do we really believe customer care. I would agree that retentions are a little more reliable that general customer care but I can tell you out of personal experience that outside of their department and what they can offer, they aren't much better. They just seem to be able to find the generic information better. Just the other day someone out of retentions had no clue what the "Airave" was and then when we mentioned my Mogul he told me that my Mogul didn't have the capabilities of Sprint TV or Navigation. The answer I got about the release date of both devices was from my district manager who used to be my store manager and he usually keeps us informed on all the hot ticket items. Unless Sprint or HTC changes the release date I would almost guarantee you could take the date of October 19th to the bank. The call center people less telesales, never know the true release date of items or typically even the functionality of a device. As for the release of four devices on the same day, well I too think this is only causing trouble for Sprint. But like I mentioned in my previous post, the original date of release was 2nd September and November for the Touch Pro. Sprint already had the other two devices on the books for the 19th of October when HTC opted to change the release date. Either way, no matter our opinions on how stupid it may be, Sprint has it on the books for 19 October.

[Success100]

dude i work for sprint. the 6950 is the TOUCH DUAL. not the diamond. The FCC JUST approved the GSM 850/1900 MHz version for US GSM carriers. The CDMA version is still awaiting FCC approval

[jaggrey]

What's this then? http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/0...lls-like-cdma/

[e.lamberson]

dude i work for sprint. the 6950 is the TOUCH DUAL. not the diamond. The FCC JUST approved the GSM 850/1900 MHz version for US GSM carriers. The CDMA version is still awaiting FCC approval

Before you are too quick, my DM has played with the Diamond. One of the lead directors of marketing has the diamond on his account. As I have implied, I too work for Sprint and am fortunate enough to have someone higher up who used to be our store manager who informs me of the facts when they arrive. Before you are too quick to correct someone check all your resources. I looked up in our system the sku's of the devices and we have both a 6850 and 6950. It doesn't show which is which but I can say that the pricing of the 6950 is out, well at least the retail price, and it's the same as the Mogul. With the Mogul being the 6800 and the Touch being the 6900 I'm assuming that the Diamond and the Touch Pro are the 6950 and 6850. In my discussions with my DM we have never discussed the model number, just the name and it's been clearly stated as the Diamond and Touch Pro which will both being released as of 19 October. However I did find this link that was posted July 9th and it shows the September 2nd release date which again has been changed to October 19th and it also shows that the device being released is the Diamond MP 6950.

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/07/09/sprint-launching-htc-touch-diamond-on-september-2nd/

[drexappeal]

Thank God for Google! Saved me the trouble of having to search through the entire forum. I got this thread directly!

I read through the thread and from what I gathered as far as info is concerned, this is what everybody has posted so far:

- Release moved from September 2 to October 19.
- Release for Touch Pro (Raphael) moved from November to October 19

Anyhow, I'm not expert and don't have any inside contacts, but I do work for a major corporation that allows me to get business phones before they're officially released to the public (I ordered my Mogul 1 month prior to the public release), so I have an email into our representative to see if he has any information for me, since I'm definitely interested in getting the Touch Pro.

If I receive a response about it, I'll post whatever I can share.