Holiday Gift Guide »

HTC Touch Diamond heads to India, forgets 3G radio

By: , IntoMobile
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 at 4:07 PM

Peter Chou shows off HTC Touch Diamond for IndiaThere’s only one way HTC is going to meet their upgraded sales projections for the new HTC Touch Diamond over the next year – the Taiwanese manufacturer is going to have to push the HTC Touch Diamond hard in already entrenched markets as well as bring the handset to new markets. As such, the HTC Touch Diamond is headed to the Indian market.

But, in its hurry to get to the up and coming market, HTC forgot to make sure that the Touch Diamond packed its 3G radio. India’s Bharti Airtel has signed on as the exclusive carrier to offer the HTC Touch Diamond and its glorious VGA touchscreen, integrated GPS, and 3 megapixel camera to it’s Indian subscribers. It’s unfortunate that the newly announced HTC Touch Diamond won’t be sporting any sort of high-speed data connection, a la HSDPA, but we’re sure that won’t keep Bharti Airtel from hitting HTC’s goal of 50,000 units for the first year.

Priced at 27,500 rupees ($645), the Indian-flavored HTC Touch Diamond isn’t going to end up in most Indian pockets, but those with a eye for high-end features like VGA touchscreens will most likely be digging through the couch for some spare rupees.

[Via: Cellpassion]

SPONSORED MESSAGE
Get free domestic and international calls and texts to anyone with the Vonage Mobile app available as an iPhone calling app or Android calling app.

About The Author

Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Kunal Gangar

    Not putting 3G in the Indian version I think is a deliberate action from HTC as 3G is still unavailable in India. And when it will be available (assuming the spat between the govt. and operators will get over) HTC will be ready to sell its 3G variant.

  • akshay

    prices on htc diamond

  • S.RAMASWAMY

    Dear All,

    I am looking Diamond series mobile of HTC set please send me module of hand set

    S.Ramaswamy
    09282177822

  • devendra

    can any body tell me how to syncronise sms folder to my microsoft outlook on pc