Sprint delays HTC Touch Pro

Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

• Luis

  Argh! shouldn’t be a problem? It is a problem because I had my hopes up to get the phone this Sunday. Maybe it wouldn’t hurt so much if they had announced the delay a month ago but not even a week until the phone’s announced launch date and they pull this? Can anyone tell me what are the national retailers so I can get the phone as soon as possible? I am hurting because I was hoping to finally cure myself of the crippling company known as Verizon and this dumb razr which verizon has made into a shell of what it could be.

• Raidium

  YOUR WRONG!

  lol. Just Kidding. A few weeks is nothing for me seeing on how i wont be able to get one until like january anyways. Bummer, huh? Oh well, I’m alittle low on funds anyways so I better start saving. Good thing I already got most of my christmas shopping done, right?

• alex talarico

  quit yer bitchin’ – its just a phone, you’ll live.

• Elle Boogie

  Yeah it is a big deal, I need to have my number poted before my phone gets cut off because I have to pay the bil on my cell phone for another month so i can keep my same number. This sucks…. Oh well, I’ll go to verizon and just get the voyager i been wanting

• PCK

  Slight correction to the above statement.

  PCK Says:

  October 21st, 2008 at 2:21 am

  Please know that It was suppossed to state that for a Nokia 5310 At T-Mobile you pay $50.00 Then a #36.00 Activation fee, then tax adding to some $100.00 with being locked in a 2 year agreement. And should that 2 year agreement you would then get charged an additional $200.00 for a grand total of $300.00, Not $200.00 BUT Yes $300.00 for a phone that brand new with additional more feautures and being unlocked completely only cost $186.00 Shipped at Buy.com

  PCK/nyc

• Rob

  You should be able to pick it up at Best Buy on the 26th.

• Britt9287

  I dont think people who buy from the service provider are being conned yeah its at a lower price but you get what you pay for. If the person wanted all the features of the original manufacturer they should buy unlocked but if they like the service provider one better why not? Customers getting conned would be paying unlocked prices for these locked phones. Like the average cost of the HTC Touch Pro unlocked is around $850. Sprints has less features so its less money so how is that conning? And I like to be able to access the features from my service provider from my phone like sprint TV, Sprint DigitalLounge, etc.

  And you cant use the video calling feature here because no provider has a plan to accomodate it so it would be a waste. And as far as the Nokia goes, of course its $186 its a Nokia, who wants that ugly thing?

• PCK

  To Brit9287,
  OK, you stated that there isnt any conning!
  With all due respect maybe instead of looking to possibly argue this point, consider that the average consumer first of all is not even aware that the carrier phone is even LOCKED to work with any outside different Simm cards especially from abroad, havint to pay fees as high as $4.99 a minute depending on the country or even as high as paying $8.99 a minute just to call a sat phone number anywhere whther it maybe in the USA, or abroad.

  Additionally you stated that the Original flavor has more features and more money, technically right and wrong as well.
  Please do let me explain, first hand a carrier fully strippes a phone down to its are essentials mostly in this country only, such as a secondary video camera, which agree America doesnt have the feauture in use by providers but still can be in use here as well by simply downloading skype and making skype calls on a wifi cell then yes the secondary cam will come into action if it existed.
  Then remember that not only are you stripping a phone of features but should a consumer find an emergency to cancel they will be additionally stuck having to pay a severe penalty fee which lifts the discounted phone price by a good $200.00 and still not giving it any additional of the lost stripped features. Then should he or she decide to keep the discounted phone model to use on the service having to be paying an additional $30.00 a month multiplied by 24 = $720.00 Plus taxes almost another $200.00 depending on the state you reside at that point your forced to pay a price of almost double with no feautures at all on .

  Not too even mention the phones original processor has been replaced with a much lower priced one and much slower one, the memory greatly reduced and even the quality severely cheapened, there really is a lot to really think about here.
  With all due respect you sound like your making poor excuses becuase you maybe a dealer for one of these companies.

  Not too nice not being too honest,

  Have a Very Wonderful Day!

  PCK/nyc