Diamond Release Speculation Thread - Page 74

batcatman · #**731** (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by ut6700

Quick question,

Does anyone know if the Diamond is wcdma and gsm?
Or one or the depending on provider?

Thanks

ROFLAO

Way to go my friend

**clockcycle** · #**732** (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 10:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ut6700

Quick question,

Does anyone know if the Diamond is wcdma and gsm?
Or one or the depending on provider?

Thanks

It's Carrier dependant. There are/will be several versions for just about every carrier. To get a taste of what is out and what's to come, you can visit this site; http://www.pdadb.net/ and search for diamond.

-CC

sbello81 · #**733** (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 11:00 AM

ok, wtf. i was on the phone w/ telesales at 9:50 this morning. I said "i'd like to order the touch diamond." the guy (adam) says "ok sir, it looks like you're eligible for an upgrade to the touch diamond, let's get that taken care of for you." he put me on hold, came back on and said "i'm sorry to keep you waiting, there's a problem with our system right now. can i call you back in about a half hour at this number?" that was over an hr ago. dammit.

quarky42 · #**734** (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 11:04 AM

That's because the Touch Diamond is not going to be released for sale until the 14th or around there according to the latest information we've had leaked around here, howardforums, and sprintusers.

munsterrr · #**735** (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by quarky42

That's because the Touch Diamond is not going to be released for sale until the 14th or around there according to the latest information we've had leaked around here, howardforums, and sprintusers.

that is what my understanding was too was the 14th was when it was coming out but i called today for shts and giggles since there was word of today. and thats when he said not until nov/dec(causing me to crap my pants) the whole nov/dec thing came out of left field. im on here, sprint users, howard forums, and XDA all the time looking for some type of confirmed information and the one time that i call sprint the blow me out of the water with some crazy late *** day

sbello81 · #**736** (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 11:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by quarky42

That's because the Touch Diamond is not going to be released for sale until the 14th or around there according to the latest information we've had leaked around here, howardforums, and sprintusers.

yeah, but i was hoping upon hope. nothing's been official, so there was a chance telesales could've had it.

boe · #**737** (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by munsterrr

and thats when he said not until nov/dec(causing me to crap my pants) the whole nov/dec thing came out of left field.

I saw yet another thread in this forum started about the Sprint release/launch/stock/guess/speculation date. I'm hoping someone opens yet another thread but I want them to use your catch phrase "crap my pants" in the title.

quarky42 · #**738** (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by sbello81

yeah, but i was hoping upon hope. nothing's been official, so there was a chance telesales could've had it.

There was another link I wanted to find, but couldn't get my hands on it quickly:

http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=171935
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/0...ond-dates-and/

As far as "leaked" info goes, it doesn't get much clearer than that.

Edit: Here's the third one: http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=815

Again, it doesn't get much better than that... of course the dates could still change. Sprint can do anything they want since none of these dates are "public"...just leaked.

sbello81 · #**739** (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 01:07 PM

yeah. so weird that they'd have a date listed for the Pro, yet we've never had a document like that w/ a solid date for the Diamond.

quarky42 · #**740** (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 01:20 PM

For those that hate to read where a forum member talked to someone from sprint from some office, then please skip this post right now. I'm not interested in the negative remarks. I'm simply relaying what I was told from an EXECUTIVE's OFFICE about 20 minutes ago.

I just got off the phone with a lady in one of the executive's offices. I had emailed the executive directly last week about several quick issues. One of them was requesting Sprint to consider picking up the CDMA version of the OMNIA that just p***** FCC and in it I mentioned that I was interested in finding out when the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro were coming out. I had spoken with her on Sunday and she called me back today with some information after checking into it.

She said that the Touch Diamond release date was pushed back to the 14th -16th time frame. However she said she talked to the people working on the development of the Touch Diamond and said that there is a chance that it could be pushed to the very end of September if they need even more development time.

So basically: the reason no one knows an exact release date beyond the links I already posted is that Sprint themselves do not know exactly when the phone is going to be release.

Many other companies would simply say at this point that the phone will be released "when it is ready" and not before.

Anyway, one last note... this call came from a blocked phone number. All the regular customer service reps I've ever had call me had an 800 or 866 number showing on the caller id when they called. This one came from an unknown/blocked number instead. I have no reason to disbelieve her when she told me she was calling from the office of the executive that I had emailed.