Rumors, being what they are, can always change mid-news-cycle. In this case, the rumors surrounding the HTC Touch Diamond‘s arrival on Sprint and Verizon later this month (August 2008) has been updated to reflect new information from PhoneArena that points to the svelte touchscreen offering from HTC hitting Sprint and Verizon in early September and…
HTC Touch Diamond hands-on
It’s finally here! The good folks at HTC have been good enough to send over an HTC Touch Diamond for consideration. I’ve been playing with this handsome little phone for the past few days, and let me just say, it’s the slickest Windows Mobile handset that I’ve ever had the pleasure of using – which…
HTC Touch Diamond coming to Sprint later in the month?
We do know HTC has a CDMA version of its HTC Touch Diamond smartphone ready (it’s been approved by the FCC, after all), and we know it will push it through both Verizon and Sprint. Now, we have a new tidbit of information suggesting Sprint may pick the stylish smartphone later in the month, and…
HTC still on schedule to ship Android-powered smartphones in Q4 2008
As other handset makers are struggling to turn a profit in the dog-eat-dog world of mobile phone manufacturing, and other manufacturers are cutting prices to shake up the competition, HTC is solidly maintaining its course to take over the Windows Mobile and Android-powered smartphone market. Following on numerous HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro…
HTC Touch Diamond finally gets FCC approval with US 3G HSDPA support!
Well that sure took a while. As the rest of the world had the honor of being part of HTC’s launch markets for the up and coming HTC Touch Diamond, the US has had to wait for HTC to push their US-spec HTC Touch Diamond through the FCC. The HTC Touch Diamond already passed FCC…
HTC Touch Pro (Raphael) hits the FCC
HTC sure has the FCC keeping busy with their different variants of their flagship smartphones – when they’re not reviewing designer handsets, that is. While the rest of us wait for HTC to bring their US-spec HTC Touch Diamond with US-friendly 3G radios (850/1900Mhz) in tow, HTC has been busy pushing their HTC Touch Pro…
CoPilot Live 7 coming to Touch Diamond
ALK Technologies has announced a special edition of its mobile navigation system, CoPilot Live 7, for the HTC Touch Diamond. CoPilot Live HTC Touch Diamond edition is supplied on a DVD that installs navigation software and maps onto the phone from a desktop computer. Once installed, users can “enjoy full satellite navigation on their phone,…
HTC releases official HTC Touch Diamond ROM to enable US 850Mhz support
HTC, again proving that they are undoubtedly the people‘s handset manufacturer, has released their own HTC Touch Diamond ROM that flips the switch on the dormant 850Mhz GSM radio lying underneath that slick, VGA touchscreen. Following on the cooked ROM from xda-developers that allowed formerly tri-band HTC Touch Diamond handsets to roam free on the…
Sprint HTC Touch and HTC Mogul get some Windows Mobile 6.1 update love
It’s that time again. The Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM update is again out and about for all you WinMo fans to enjoy. Except this time around, it’s an official WM6.1 ROM straight from HTC itself. After seeing more cooked, unofficially official, and leaked Windows Mobile 6.1 ROMs floating around the intertubes than we care to…
Home-brew video acceleration drivers coming to an HTC device near you
HTC hasn’t been all that supportive of the ATI Imageon video hardware on board HTC handsets using Qualcomm’s MSM7500 and MSM7200 chipsets. They’ve released firmware revisions that offer some video performance boosts, but nothing to the level that many irate HTC customers are looking for in their high-end smartphone. So, without any help from HTC,…