HTC Touch HD easter egg: AT&T-compatible 3G bands
Apparently HTC got a bit caught up in the spirit of the holiday season because a sweet little easter egg has just been uncovered that is sure to excite all you US HTC fans out there. That easter egg — 850 / 1900 MHz UMTS bands! It seems HTC has been holding out on us and hiding away a North American version of it’s sexy Touch sequel. So why didn’t HTC make it known that the Touch HD packed AT&T-compatible 3G? It was a surprise for the holidays obviously! Umm, no. The company probably just didn’t want to piss people off since it has already made it known that the Touch HD will not be coming to the US. Now before we get ahead of ourselves, it’s entirely possible that the manual refers to a build of the handset that was canned prior to production. While there have been reports of people getting 3G reception with the Touch HD here in the US, it’s entirely possible that they were using the Telstra version which packs 850 / 2100 MHz UMTS. Either way, if it works it works. We still expect HTC to stand by its announcement, meaning we aren’t ever going to see a carrier-subsidized version of the phone – you may however, be able to snag an import with full-on 3G at some point.
i’m not that worried. a touch hd like phone will be the g2 and something like a touch hd pro will be the wing 2 so t-mobile shouldnt be too worried. lol
My HD has been able to pick up 3G before. I sometimes wake up to the fabled 3G signal on the screen
the kaiser manual said the same with the tmobile aws bands & that never came to light, so i won’t hold my breath.
whoa! when did we start getting avatars???
It’s more likely they don’t want to upset their AT&T carrier partner by bringing in heat against the iPhone. Isn’t “competition” sweet?
Dual-band UMTS sucks too.
Why is it so hard for them to make the phone a true world phone like the iPhone ? With quadband GSM and triband 3G.
They can’t make a true world phone with triband 3G since we here in the states put up with shitty two year phones. The tmobile fans would complain as well since they have AWS now.
CDMA users always get screwed when it come to the good devices first the iphone now this.
No the T-mobile fans keep getting screwed
Hell yeah!
Give it up man WE ARE NOT GETTING THE TOUCH HD IN THE U.S.
Give it up man WE ARE NOT GETTING THE TOUCH HD IN THE U.S? Not getting. I have it
robbo “I have it.”
Do you get 3G? What carrier are you with?
Hell yeah – i second that – HELL YEAH!!
tell me about your 3g experience and where did u purchase?
There’s no where the ppl claiming to get 3G possibly had the Telstra version. Telstra is not even releasing the Touch HD on their network til Jan. 27…so unless u can time travel to the future, ur a stinkin liar
that does it, first im moving to europe, then im buyint that phone.