Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 announced by HTC

[lawmangrant]

I cant wait for these two phones....

[foxnews]

is Diamond 2 going to be release Sep, like Diamond last year?

and Pro 2 is going to be out a month later Oct, like Pro 1 last year?

[esqueue]

I'll keep my current TP. I feel that they should fix the issues before releasing something new. I know that it will have major issues. I mean damn, gps lag isn't fixed and it worked perfect on the mogul. Proof that they don't give a dame about their customers.

[meanfishy]

How can they release the TP2 with WM 6.1?

[gianthobbit]

well I dont know if you guys did not watch the video on the last page about the advancements in TF3D V2 but they are huge and I am very excited to port to my touch pro.

[letsgoflyers81]

Originally Posted by gianthobbit

well I dont know if you guys did not watch the video on the last page about the advancements in TF3D V2 but they are huge and I am very excited to port to my touch pro.

I'm excited too, but don't expect that to happen overnight. There are still issues with the Touch HD TF3D VGA port due to changing the resolution. The Diamond2/TP2 TF3D has been ported to the HD already but it's still WVGA so it makes sense they'd have an easy time with it. I'm sure it'll come to the Diamond and TP, but I'm counting on the same issues we've had with the HD port.

[gianthobbit]

Originally Posted by letsgoflyers81

I'm excited too, but don't expect that to happen overnight. There are still issues with the Touch HD TF3D VGA port due to changing the resolution. The Diamond2/TP2 TF3D has been ported to the HD already but it's still WVGA so it makes sense they'd have an easy time with it. I'm sure it'll come to the Diamond and TP, but I'm counting on the same issues we've had with the HD port.

What type of issues? How long did it take to get HD TF3D to VGA resolution (don't know if it has a official release yet), this will give us an idea of how long it is going to take to get the new version of TF3D.

[letsgoflyers81]

Originally Posted by gianthobbit

What type of issues? How long did it take to get HD TF3D to VGA resolution (don't know if it has a official release yet), this will give us an idea of how long it is going to take to get the new version of TF3D.

The weather tab still has some graphical issues and I find the whole thing to be more sluggish that the version of TF3D built into Juggalo's most recent cooked ROM. That might just be me though. There's no official port, we only have what we do because of some talented people here and on XDA Developers. I don't know how long it took to get the HD port but I"m sure it wasn't overnight.

[Devilstrider]

Maybe we will have 6.5 sooner.

A MOBILE phone loaded with top-secret Microsoft software given to Telstra boss Sol Trujillo has apparently been stolen by a Barcelona pickpocket.

The yet-to-be-released software was on a yet-to-be-released phone given to Mr Trujillo in Spain this week at the World Mobile Congress.

The theft has left Telstra and Mr Trujillo embarr***** and Microsoft facing an industrial espionage threat.

The phone is believed to be either a HTC Touch Pro2 or the HTC Touch Diamond2 that operates on new Windows Mobile 6.5 software.

A Telstra spokesman yesterday confirmed the phone was given to Mr Trujillo but was in the possession of a senior Telstra executive when the theft occurred.

“The phone was not in Mr Trujillo’s possession at the time. It was being held by a senior Telstra executive,” he said.

The Daily Telegraph understands the phone was with one of two senior executives with Mr Trujillo on the Barcelona trip but Telstra would not reveal the name of the executive last night.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the software at the Congress this week. Details of how the software works are so hush-hush that journalists at the launch were not even allowed to touch the HTC phone. The phone will hit US shelves by June, but the software is not due for release until the end of the year.

It's understood that Mr Trujillo was "dog-fooding" - geek-speak for product-testing - the software for Mr Ballmer. Dog-fooding aims to identify bugs before software hits the market.

"What if news of those bugs is released early before a final version goes on sale. Those sorts of things could affect the shares of Microsoft," industrial espionage expert Les Goldsmith said.

The Windows software on the stolen phone gives users one-touch access to their favourite songs from their music library, their latest mail or their favourite social networking applications.

It also runs Internet Explorer 6 in full fidelity.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...001021,00.html

[DavidinCT]

Very nice....can't buy a new phone, need to wait for WM 7 phones....