Sprint said to be getting the HTC Hero in October followed by the BlackBerry Curve 8530 in November
Way back in April before anyone outside of HTC knew what it was all about, a poster over at the xda-developers forum claimed that Sprint would be carrying a device known as the Hero on October 11th, mere days after the Fall edition of CTIA kicks off. The claims were pretty much brushed aside and/or soon forgotten, but now the poster is back with some evidence in tow. Well, kind of. The evidence that the poster has brought to light isn’t in the form of a fancy internal slide deck from Sprint but instead, a close up of a piece of paper that lists release dates for several upcoming Sprint handsets (more on them in a moment). Now normally we wouldn’t read too much into these sort of things but the fact is this guy called it from a long way back. Unless he just spit out a name from the huge 2009 HTC leak we’d say that has to count for something. Plus, he’s certainly not the only person who has suggested the sexy Android phone is Sprint-bound. On the very same day, it is also said that Sprint will be launching another Android device by Samsung, the Q (hello Moto?), but at the moment nothing is known about it. Perhaps it’s just Sprint’s internal name for the Galaxy.
Back to those other devices; The BlackBerry Curve 8530, which we already know to be headed to Verizon, is said to be launching on November 1st alongside a few numbers from Kyocera — the Pro 410, Pro 910 and perhaps the 3810 as well. Then we have the LG Lotus 2 (LX610) dropping some time in 2010. Yeah, we’re much more interested in the Hero, too.
[Via Engadget]
but im sure if sprint can get the diamond beefed up and vzw can get the touch pro maimed the hero can be helped out a little
Bye bye t-mobile. I’m switching to sprint.
LOL Sally doesn’t like black folk helping her with her phone?
@Sally,
Haha, you amuse me to thinking that Long Beach and throughout SoCal is what you refer to as “ghetto.” It seens you haven’t gone anywhere except be isolated. Get out from under the rock.
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Ghetto? Youve probably never lived in the Zip Code of one.
We’ve been with Sprint Since 97, we werent with them that long worrying about how “Ghetto” the Reps were…in fact Most Sprint Customers Never even have to Go into a store for anything, unless its a Repair issue. Otherwise you use Telesales for phones and stay out of the stores.
Sprint stores are slow at times especially depending on the location, however if your smart enough not to have to run in for every single problem in the first place…..you have no issue
Does it REALLY take a year+ for tmobile to get a 3G BB? Does RIM really need to be the LAST company to get threaded messaging? And RIM marketplace has fewer apps and charges more for them than the others. BB… not looking so good.
I guess Verizon will get the Hero 6 months later after Sprint, hopefully sooner but that’s the way it looks. As long as they release the white for the U.S. I’m game. Sense is toooo sexy.
Sally please go say that to a “ghetto” person so they can knock you the f*ck out. Your ignorance in inexcuseable in 2009, please get out more.
really? smh…
Sounds like sally has a white iphone …’crippled garbage’ …
Once you go black, you won’t go back. Blackberry that is.
This is amazing how the phone selection sucked, doesn’t anymore, so now instead of baseless arguments about coverage it comes down to more unrelated crap.
Looks like phone arena already has some specs on the CDMA version
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/HTC-Hero-CDMA-phone-pa_3968.html
and I know for a fact you are wrong. the s50 and the InstinctQ are 2 totally different phones
Since its proven that its already coming to sprint, would it come in white? Because usually sprint phones are black :/ it’ll be a major failure if it doesnt come in white… Atleas i think so.
Yeah I just talked to Sprint and they confirmed 10/11. But I agree that if it doesn’t come out in white, I will be pissy.
Since this story ran, the 850 has gone thru a few name changes and is being tested by the FCC with the Instinct Q being spotted and a semi-confirmed date for the Touch Pro. BGR is my favorite place to visit but none of that is said here. Whut the problem is?