October 24, 2008 8:33 AM PDT
Sprint releases availability dates for HTC Touch Pro
Updated at 8:56 a.m. PDT with information about store availability.
After a slight delay, Sprint announced on Friday that the HTC Touch Pro will be available for purchase at Best Buy stores nationwide starting October 26 and will be available in all Sprint stores and online on November 2. The Touch Pro will cost $299.99 with a two-year contract (after a $100 mail-in-rebate and a $25 or higher data plan).
We know a lot of you have been waiting for this Windows Mobile smartphone, and it looks like we'll be getting our hands on the device around Tuesday, so we'll be working hard to get a full review up as soon as possible. In the meantime, you can check out this First Look video of the HTC Touch Pro from Fall CTIA 2008.
Bonnie Cha is a senior editor for CNET, covering smartphones and GPS. When she's not testing the latest gadgets, you can find her chasing after her crazy lab or surfing in the chilly waters of Northern California. E-mail Bonnie.
Wanted to consider this as an better-tech refresh to my Sprint HTC Mogul but they sacrificed alot of attractive features of the Mogul in building the Touch Pro. The latter lacks: all the programmable side and front-facing buttons/switches that make the Mogul so darn convenient to use. Though they added a bunch of keys to the keyboard, for some reason they thought it was an improvement (?) to remove the "Ok" key - not good. The Mogul has two LEDs that flash different colors to indicate Bluetooth usage, Wifi usage, messages waiting, low battery, and phone-radio on/off. The Touch Pro has nowhere near this set of indicators, and it uses a backlight behind the d-pad to do this - good luck seeing that in daylight conditions. And yes the TouchFlo 3D is slick but what about all the 3rd party apps like PhoneWeaver and iLauncher that work so well on my Mogul ? They might be installable but they're sure not going to look right in TouchFlo environment.
No, this is no replacement for the Mogul and shouldn't even be referenced in that way. This is an entirely different creature that unfortunately won't interest me at this point. Now maybe if/when the Touch Pro HD debuts ...
seem that way in youre review.
The new pricing plans for Sprint that start November 2nd were first mentioned at Slickdeals.
Here is a link to the details.
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=978775
These new plans, if confirmed will bring a HUGH influx of customers to Sprint.
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by 007mytam
November 6, 2008 10:14 PM PST
- Bought a Touch Pro a week ago and has one big problem!!!! The back of the phone at the top close to the camera lens area get extremely hot when speaking on the phone for even a short time and notice battery life has decreased also. Spoke to sprints tech and getting it replaced but this is a HTC problem!!!! Otherwise I like the phone but when one can hardly hold it in your hands after 15 minutes of talk time this is not normal.
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