Telus HTC Touch Pro pricing, release date, and comparison shots
One of our faithful ninjas has sent in some info about Telus’ upcoming HTC Touch Pro release. According to our guy, the handset should launch sometime this week, which is in line with other reports. When it drops, expect to pay $299 on a 3 year contract, jumping to a whopping $549 on a 2 year bid, $599 on a 1 year contract, and $649 shackle free. This pricing is comparable to Telus’ current BlackBerry 8830 structure, placing the new HTC model in direct competition with the aging ‘Berry. Finally, we’ve got some comparison shots between the Telus Touch Pro and the handset it’s replacing, the HTC P4000/Mogul/6800. Nothing groundbreaking here, but it does help to illuminate the fact that the Touch Pro is a slightly smaller than its predecessor. Hit the jump for another couple of images.
Thanks, rileysfreeman and kjb_ninja
Apparently some of the ads Telus has for the Pro are very similar to the ones for the Blackberry Storm, and they got the “dummy models” at the same time. A girl I know who works at Telus said today that she hasn’t been told anything official, but she suspects they will be released at the same time! December third is three weeks away. How much longer can they delay it!?
So they’ve finally got the Pro up on the Telus website; don’t know if it’s in stores yet, but it carries a no contract price of $649.
I don’t know, having a physical keyboard, flash, a little more memory, and a spot for a memory card really worth $150 more then just picking up the diamond??
Telus will have it in stores by Friday, I just got off the phone with them, again. Already got mine reserved!
got mine reserved also CANT WAITTTTT
i was going to buy the Blackberry Storm at first but after reading ALL the negative reviews about it from UK release i was GLAD this came out on time. once i saw the video review i knew i had to buy this phone !!!
Got mine today, very slick. No complaints so far!
As for your comment about the Storm Ricky, my friend at Telus explained to me today that the Europe released Blackberry and the one that is scheduled for december here in Canada are not made by the same company. Blackberry Canada has “apparently” had the storm on the drawing board longer than they did in Europe, and has spent more time working out the bugs. Or so I’m told…
But after getting the Pro today, I’d stick with it over the storm too.
thats good to know Cole and i also got my htc touch pro today and boy oh boy i havent stopped playing with it !!!! it is truly amazing and it surprises me that its based on a windows OS !!! not saying that the phone is perfect i mean it does freeze for a second or so as does any other phone but its awesome… i had the iphone for 4 months and i was so fed up cuz it froze and crashed alot… and ironically enough the windows phone didnt have any of those problems… yet !
Just picked up the HTC Touch Pro form Telus. Luckily I had a $0 dataphone upgrade on my account – which means I didn’t pay a penny for this thing. They offer 14-day trial period – and if I don’t like it, I’ll just reinstate my old Treo 700w (which I don’t want to do).
So far my take is mixed on it. Unless due to a setting I haven’t found yet – the screen only changes from portrait to landscape when you slide out the QWERTY (unlike iTouch or iPod). What’s nice is it has Opera as a browser on it and the WiFi Chip wasn’t ripped out (as is expected with the BB Storm).
I’ve noticed this puppy gets real warm real quick – and the battery life is pretty dismal at best…
Things they didn’t get right:
-Proprietary USB hookup (why can’t we have 1 standard!?!!?!?!?!)
-Headphone jack instead of being in phone is on the proprietary USB adaptor
-Stylus, though magnetized, is always pointing to the ground when talking on the phone – if it falls out I’ll be pissed.
Things they got right:
-Expandable MicroSD card (apparently a hack due out shortly will allow up to 128GB expansion!)
-Size/weight/dimensions
-Opera browser
-3.2MB full motion video/still camera
-640×480 res. I haven’t put it to the full test yet. Better out-preform the Storm
-Integrated WiFi
-Integrated GPS
That’s it for now. Hope it passes my drop tests while skiing!
Further to my last post…
Pros:
-actually has a decent carrying case
-SMS threads are back!!!
Cons:
-that stylus I mentioned has half fallen out 3 times now. Won’t be long before it’s gone forever.
-Again Flash Video Player isn’t supported (same as on my Treo and my iTouch) yet it has a YouTube quick launch button which reopens that old debate.
-QWERTY slide out requires a Function key to use to drawer characters, shift for capitals.
-Front panel buttons (Home, Back, etc.) feel chinsy when depressed as it runs against the casing.
-In general the unit “feels” cheap as the slide out keyboard isn’t super stiff.
…more to come as I play.