HTC Rhodium on Sprint Q309 Roadmap with WM 7

[Sauske]

Originally Posted by kjhadfield

its time 4 a upgrade 4 me! i was
looking at the up coming releases, whats this about a touch hd w/ sprint!? i would like that. and eta? i like the idea of the new diamond2, w/ the camera an sd slot but from what i read so far the tp2 is coming 2 sprint before diamond2? but any eta on this? if the tp2 does come 1st, i might get trigger happy, even though i never had a hardware kb. is the camera not the same as the diamond2?
sorry i'm all over the place w/ my questions and it might sound ramble, cuz i want a new phone, i'm getting ready. but i want to be sure a better devise comes out later, like the hd.

The Diamond & the Touch Pro has a 2.8 VGA screen. The Rom, Ram and the camera (3.2 megapixel) are the same. The difference between the two are the physical keyboard and the fact that the Diamond has internal memory ( no sd slot) of 4gb, in which it is not upgradable and the Pro has the sd slot which is upgradable. Now with that said the Diamond 2 has a 3.2 VGA screen and a 5 megapixel camera and now it has a sd slot that is upgradable. The Rom and the Ram are the same as the Diamond and the Pro. The Touch Pro 2 has a 3.6 WVGA screen and the Rom, Ram and camera are the same as the Diamond and the Pro. Granted it will have windows 6.5 on them & and the touch flow 3D will be much more responsive on both devices and the Pro 2 will have some business features like automatic conference call etc.... in on the HTC website if you want to all details! =D>

[kjhadfield]

Originally Posted by Sauske

The Diamond & the Touch Pro has a 2.8 VGA screen. The Rom, Ram and the camera (3.2 megapixel) are the same. The difference between the two are the physical keyboard and the fact that the Diamond has internal memory ( no sd slot) of 4gb, in which it is not upgradable and the Pro has the sd slot which is upgradable. Now with that said the Diamond 2 has a 3.2 VGA screen and a 5 megapixel camera and now it has a sd slot that is upgradable. The Rom and the Ram are the same as the Diamond and the Pro. The Touch Pro 2 has a 3.6 WVGA screen and the Rom, Ram and camera are the same as the Diamond and the Pro. Granted it will have windows 6.5 on them & and the touch flow 3D will be much more responsive on both devices and the Pro 2 will have some business features like automatic conference call etc.... in on the HTC website if you want to all details! =D>

ok, thank you, so now let me get ur opinion!?
the additions for diamond2 are screen size, sd card and camera! and for the pro2 its screen size, is .4 more than diam2 that big of of a difference? can you really see the difference? and the tilt kb seems alright but i never had a kb so either or is not a big deal. but camera is not as big as diam2, is that much a difference in the quality? i mean is 5 way better than 3.2?
and i'm guessing pro2 is coming before diam2? and last, whar was that about the touch hd coming 2 sprint!?
thanks for your help and thoughts

[Sauske]

Originally Posted by kjhadfield

ok, thank you, so now let me get ur opinion!?
the additions for diamond2 are screen size, sd card and camera! and for the pro2 its screen size, is .4 more than diam2 that big of of a difference? can you really see the difference? and the tilt kb seems alright but i never had a kb so either or is not a big deal. but camera is not as big as diam2, is that much a difference in the quality? i mean is 5 way better than 3.2?
and i'm guessing pro2 is coming before diam2? and last, whar was that about the touch hd coming 2 sprint!?
thanks for your help and thoughts

Yes both Diamond 2 & Pro 2 are coming to Sprint, with their track record the Diamond 2 will release first and 1 month later the Pro 2; September & October respectively. The camera on the diamond 2 is 5 megapixels and Pro 2 is still 3.2. If you take a pic with both phone at 10ft away with the naked eye the diamond 2 will look slightly cleaner no big deal. Where the difference kicks in at is when you zoom in on the 10ft pic! The screen is a noticeable difference on the Pro 2 than the Diamond 2. I two never had a KB device that's why I'm waiting to get the Pro 2, initially I wanted the Pro but the Pro 2 will release in October so I'll wait for it. Pro 2 compared to the pro is very little difference but the screen size, KB (the actual buttons on the KB are noticeably bigger for typing fiends or experts) windows 6.5 and faster response time (More fluidness). In my Ultimate opinion it will boil down to the 5 megapixel camera and people who dont care about KB's or the 3.6 WVGA screen........... and the winner is Pro 2 (b/c i want the big screen and never had KB device) and even if a had a KB device I still want the Big screen. And NO the Touch HD will not come to sprint! In essence that's what the Pro 2 is. Touch HD = 3.8 WVGA screen & Pro 2 = 3.6 + KB!

[basilray]

Originally Posted by Sauske

Yes both Diamond 2 & Pro 2 are coming to Sprint, with their track record the Diamond 2 will release first and 1 month later the Pro 2; September & October respectively.

My guess is that it will be Novemeber before we see the TP2. Sprint pretty much had the device ready last August, but delayed shipment until Novemeber w/ the original TP.

My roommate works for a phone software company, and they got hands on with the TP in like July or August. Hopefully it will be the same this time around w/ the TP2 and I'll get some pics and such for you guys!

[frazell]

Originally Posted by Sauske

The Diamond & the Touch Pro has a 2.8 VGA screen. The Rom, Ram and the camera (3.2 megapixel) are the same. The difference between the two are the physical keyboard and the fact that the Diamond has internal memory ( no sd slot) of 4gb, in which it is not upgradable and the Pro has the sd slot which is upgradable. Now with that said the Diamond 2 has a 3.2 VGA screen and a 5 megapixel camera and now it has a sd slot that is upgradable. The Rom and the Ram are the same as the Diamond and the Pro. The Touch Pro 2 has a 3.6 WVGA screen and the Rom, Ram and camera are the same as the Diamond and the Pro. Granted it will have windows 6.5 on them & and the touch flow 3D will be much more responsive on both devices and the Pro 2 will have some business features like automatic conference call etc.... in on the HTC website if you want to all details! =D>

I am still on the fence on this whole conferencing thing. Sprint's network only handles 3-way calling unlike T-Mobile's GSM (and possibly all GSM) where I've had conversations with 16 calls connected through the phone at one time. The conference stuff is marketed by HTC as being the #1 awesome thing about the Touch Pro 2 and I don't see it as working on the CDMA version (at least on CDMA carriers since it is estimated to have both CDMA & GSM).

Maybe Sprint will market the world phone feature as the biggest cool factor?

I'm also still pissed they changed the Keyboard. HTC needs to get their heads screwed on straight and stop changing stuff like that so often. They JUST forced me to convert to the Touch Pro KB and they change that now? Seriously...

I'm liking HTC less and less with each passing day. Hopefully we get some competing WM device makers out there in the fold soon.