Comments on: Video reveals TELUS HTC Touch Pro2 with 3.5mm audio jack

By: 3g

3g — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:09:38 +0000

hi i livei n the u.s i would like to know if i buy the touch pro2 from the telus website will the 3g work in the u.s or does canada 3g network differs from us 3g

By: MichaelSF

MichaelSF — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:18:54 +0000

I thought people knew this, so I will post in here.

1. A CSR at T-Mo confirmed that the one goes on sale in the U. S. on August 12.

2. The U. S. version will not have a web cam (the camera in the front).

3. It will, of course, be a 3G phone.

4. Will have Windows Mobile 6.1, but 6.5 is ready to roll out and the TP2 will be upgraded for free.

5. The U. S. version will NOT have a 3.5 audio port.

6. If you want to wait, T-Mo will be introducing a phone similar in look and function to the TP2, but it will be an Android based phone. It will replace the G1, which by Sept-Oct. will be an outdated phone. It may be called the G2, or the G1 V2.

It will look something like the MyTouch/iPhone, meaning the entire front is a display, with a full, large slider keyboard like the TP2.

A T-MO employee told me that it is slated for debut in the “4th quarter” (meaning in time for the holidays, when all carriers like to introduce new phones, for gift giving). T-Mo is especially known for doing this, recall the Pearl and Curve coming out for the holiday season.

So if you like the Android OS and concept (I love it and love my G1), want something up-to-date that’s not the G1, and like the large display (like the iPhone and MyTouch) you may want to hold off until September-October.

Sidenote: As to the camera having a flash to make the phone perfect, IMHO a camera flash on a cell phone camera is about as useful as having a zoom feature, meaning I can do without either.

I have found a cell flash is not bright enough, does not work well with cheap cell phone cameras and make pics look lousy. Perhaps HTC knows this and that’s why they don’t put a flash on their phones.

For me the perfect phone does not have a flash. LOL. Perfection truly is in the mind of the thinker.

By: MichaelSF

MichaelSF — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:55:00 +0000

Yes, BT stereo is the way of the future, not audio ports with cables running to one’s head.

I have been using BT stereo since I got my Pearl way back. The the Curve and now the G1.

I am spoiled. I will never go back to a corded headset, stereo or non.

By: noone123

noone123 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:17:50 +0000

htc almost has a perfect phone! Now lets change that screen to capacitive, give it a 5mp autofocus camera, and replace the mute button on the back with a camera flash and we might have a winner

By: B-Real206

B-Real206 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:46:26 +0000

I want the Sense UI also but regardless as soon as this phone is released I will be ordering it!!!

By: rambo6

rambo6 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:09:42 +0000

Salty Dawg:

Thanks for th links, I’ll join the effort and see if I can help. Everyone should be upset about this but few are, or at least don’t complain.

By: Jessie

Jessie — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:31:48 +0000

Actually…
The phone is a world phone with what is appearing to be 850-1900 bands and CDMA. I know you are talking about unlocked phones however (unlocked GSMs?)

By: Jason Bourne

Jason Bourne — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:07:08 +0000

If this is upgradeable to the Sense UI….its copped.

By: josh

josh — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:45:43 +0000

well is tmobile getting a 3.5 mm jack with its touch pro 2?

By: SaltyDawg

SaltyDawg — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:00:56 +0000

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By: rambo6

rambo6 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:08:52 +0000

HTC is incredibly good at making good hardware. However, I believe their marketing department has made a couple very bad decisions. Obviously, HTC has been very slow to offer a phone with either a large screen or a 3.5mm jack. In fact, HTC has chosen to stick with that scrawny 2.8″ screen and the lame mini-usb jack for far too long. I can just imaging the R&D meetings: “To keepa phona small as possible, no large screen and no 3.5mm jacka.”

I am glad that after over two years of customer complaints about the jack and screen size (not to mention getting killed by the I-Phone sales that should have been theirs), they have finally decided to make a phone that makes sense.

While I’m bitching (and I hope someone from HTC reads this), why in the hell doesn’t HTC start putting the 850/1900/2100 3G bands in their unlocked Models? They did this until the Touch Pro 2 and then they stopped. I liked buying the unbranded phones that would work on just about any network in the U.S. and Europe.

I feel that HTC has been pressured from AT&T to stop selling unlocked phones that will work on the AT&T network. This needs to be looked into by the FCC.

By: Achronicles

Achronicles — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:56:11 +0000

ok ppl this is what I think well happen for US carriers: TP2 well come out on all major carriers. Tmo will get it in aug ATT well get it around late sept to mid oct(Im not sure because Att is all so getting the Android version of the original TP known as Lancaster, the dates can’t conflict). Sprint well also get it in oct and verizon late oct till around Christmas with metro PCS and Alltel getting theirs at the same time as Verizon. please comment if you disagree.

By: VZW

VZW — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:04:19 +0000

I saw a picture of the Verizon one and it had this too.

By: sprinthater

sprinthater — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:52:40 +0000

sprint will never get this out on time just like the BB Tour and they will screw up on the inventory just like the pre or the tour. I expect this to be out in November.

By: warhed

warhed — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:04:08 +0000

^^^^^
Lmao!!! Funny! I’m debating on the tp2 & the bb tour? On vzw. I had a bad experience with an all touch screen. But the tp2 is a kick a$$ phone!!

By: techknowbabble

techknowbabble — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:44:33 +0000

Zimas and jolly ranchers. 7-11. People blowing each other w/o condoms. Are you in Texas? lol

By: Steve J

Steve J — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:37:46 +0000

I heard that phone blows iphones without a condom behind that crappy 7/11 over off MLK Bridge. Seriously, any of you other bros hear that? Anyone want a Zima? I have plenty of Jolly Ranchers!!

J/K, and LOL

SteveJ

By: techknowbabble

techknowbabble — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:36:00 +0000

OK Sprunt the Tour has been a debacle…Please don’t screw up the TP2 release. And make it snappy would ya?

By: 3 Phones Jugglin

3 Phones Jugglin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:34:55 +0000

Maybe im one of the few that actually thinks that the Battery Cover on the Sprint Touch Pro 2 is kinda cool. Verizon Would Cut performance and leave the cover plain..Sprint would leave performance alone and change the cover hmmm….decisions

By: jpg

jpg — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:31:27 +0000

well, 3.5mm is pretty cool, but since times are changing and people are a-changing, i still think stereo bt is the way to go. granted, they aren’t as awesome as having some of the crazy 3.5mm headsets out there and a lot of bt headsets aren’t so awesome with the noise-cancellation stuff, but i think wireless is cooler than a 3.5mm hole in your phone. i mean, just my opinion. you’re entitled to yours so don’t tell me i’m dumb because really, i’m stupid, not dumb (don’t know the diff? look it up).

By: damiaking

damiaking — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:26:11 +0000

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
cellphones dont have doors you mean battery cover

By: at&t

at&t — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:22:58 +0000

Anyone know when this is coming to AT&T?

By: grrr

grrr — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:19:52 +0000

they left the battery door alone! why couldn’t sprint/tmo do the same?

By: damiaking

damiaking — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:15:06 +0000

wow this was one of two reason why no to buy a touch pro 2 and the other one was windows mobile (i dont see that happening so :s)

By: 3 Phones Jugglin

3 Phones Jugglin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:05:50 +0000

Pay Attention Sprint…I want a new phone

By: Adi

Adi — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:44:32 +0000

So, when’s Bell getting it ?

Adi