Best Buy to get diamond on aug 17th? pro to follow soon after I'm sure

holo · #1 (**permalink**) 08-04-2008, 06:08 PM

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/0...pr/1#c13522089
we'll see....

this also seems to confirm it:

http://www.upcdatabase.com/item/0044476806605

as engadget points out the 17th might be a little ambitious but:

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/0...nt-this-month/

also shows an august release for diamond....

also, as some others have posted the touch has been discounted to $99 after contract which seems to hint at a pending release of the diamond too....

**Noir** · #2 (**permalink**) 08-04-2008, 07:41 PM

well...
once again vzw is left behind...dang...that bites

desairs · #3 (**permalink**) 08-04-2008, 08:07 PM

yeah man if you want cool phones VZN is not that way yo go. My friends dad works for them and i asked him why verizon sucks. He told me they test their phones better. I dont buy it.

EtherealRemnant · #4 (**permalink**) 08-04-2008, 08:34 PM

Just wait til Sprint reveals the rest of the Fall/Winter lineup...There are phones all over the board that will make Verizon's lineup look like absolute crap.

holo · #5 (**permalink**) 08-05-2008, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by desairs

yeah man if you want cool phones VZN is not that way yo go. My friends dad works for them and i asked him why verizon sucks. He told me they test their phones better. I dont buy it.

yeah that's why they release the same exact phones 6mos-1yr later.... </sarcasm>

Quote:

Originally Posted by Noir

well...
once again vzw is left behind...dang...that bites

of course - it IS verizon after all....

younghov718 · #6 (**permalink**) 08-05-2008, 08:53 AM

sprints lineup will be great they and crap mobile will have an advantage when them andriod phones drop.

**cornelious2** · #7 (**permalink**) 08-05-2008, 09:02 AM

Yea, my mom worked for Verizon for like 10 years and seriously drank the kool-aid. Verizon was able to rely on their bigger network for ages so they didn't really care about phones, but with the "we will take any unlocked CDMA Phone" program they started, I would not be surprised if they started picking up the ball a bit more. Though if they merge with alltel, I could see it being doom for sprint, and advancements in CDMA phones.

sequen · #8 (**permalink**) 08-05-2008, 09:55 AM

here is some updated info from phone arena. http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/More...le-a_3021.html. The sprint Version of the Diamond is said to be alot better than verizon as it is pretty much identical to the GSM version while verizon is dropping a few features that I'm sure alot of people will care about.

mikei · #9 (**permalink**) 08-05-2008, 10:18 AM

Interesting that the hardware would be so completely different. Why would Verizon have a SD card slot when no other Diamond variants have it and why would they take out the motions sensor when all others have it. These changes plus the difference in processor seem to be pretty dramatic changes from a hardware standpoint and it doesn't seem like it would be cost effective for HTC to even provide the carriers with these options.

**imneveral0ne** · #10 (**permalink**) 08-05-2008, 04:06 PM

well the worst part for verizon with the processor change is that its the same one from the touch, which we know doesnt have the video drivers.....