HTC Touch HD Pro leaked!!!!!

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Originally Posted by jethro_static

Here's mine, HD will kill a lot of sales of other phones especially those phones that a carrier like sprint,that spends a lot of money on investment for Diamond and touch pro. Just right now, a lot of us are willing to hold out on buying the diamond or Touch pro for this phone. It will be a huge loss for a carrier. We really don't know at this point. maybe they are just saying that it will not come to the U.S. so nobody will be holding back on buying the diamond and touch pro. It's a business strategy U know
So whatchu think guys?

It's a good thought but my personal guess is that it's not that either. The diamond and pro came out in European and Asian markets first too. If HTC thought such a quick release of the HD would hurt sales they might have chosen to not put it out anywhere. From their twitter posts, they consider it a different class of phone than the diamond and pro. The HD is their media phone, the pro is the business/professional phone, and the diamond is... well I'm not sure how they would classify it. Maybe more of a general mass appeal phone.

Releasing a phone in the US costs HTC a load of money. It's usually a hefty hardware redesign, both internal and external as seen with the sprint/verizon diamond and pro. That cost probablly gets pa ssed onto the carriers and customers eventually though. We know they started working with sprint on the pro as early as April from that leaked document, and likely a good amount of time before it was leaked too.

And from the US carriers perspective some suggested they would hold off on the HD and release it later so they don't compete with other phones. I could understand that if they had an exclusive it, but in the US market it's almost always a race to see who releases first. They rarely hold back phones that will not be exclusively released because the competition may choose not to wait. If Verizon came out with the HD first you can bet that people interested in it would leave sprint to get the device they want. (or vice versa)

I may be wrong, but my guess is that HTC didn't think the US demand for the HD would be worth all the time and money required for a launch in the US. Hopefully the twitter response and blog coverage will sway them to change their minds or fast track another device for our market.