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Verizon Wireless is joining the HTC Touch Pro party. The carrier launched the phone today and is selling it for $350 with a two-year service contract and after a $70 mail-in rebate.
Sprint Nextel launched the HTC Touch Pro last month and AT&T Mobility launched a very similar phone, which it calls the HTC Fuze, shortly afterward. Sprint Nextel is selling the phone for $299 with a two-year contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate, and AT&T Mobility is selling the Fuze for $299 after mail-in rebates and a two-year contract. Alltel is selling the phone for $280 to new subscribers with a contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate.
T-Mobile USA is unlikely to join the other carriers in launching the phone, as its premier handset, the G1, is similar in style and function to the Touch Pro, which uses a TouchFLO 3D user interface and has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
For more:
- see this article
-see this release
- see the HTC Touch Pro in FierceWireless' Holiday Handset Guide
Related Articles:
AT&T launches HTC Fuze
Sprint launches HTC Touch Pro
Comments
Posted by Anonymous | November 24, 2008 - 3:23pm
Verizon has also crippled this phone by giving it less than half of the memory that other providers do. Only 128MB rather than 288. Thanks Verizon!
Posted by Anonymous | November 26, 2008 - 1:00pm
Its actually 192MB, but yea, still sucks for Verizon to keep doing that. I love Verizon's service though. I purchased this phone from Verizon's website since it isn't in stores yet. They shipped it next day air. Its freakin' sweet.
Posted by Marblehead | January 6, 2009 - 7:46pm
Verizon version HTC Touch Pro continually drops data streams about every 30 seconds. In multiple locations other location other phones tested were able to sustain both video and audio streams. A representative of Verizon told me this is by design, further stating they do not support or want this phone to be used for data streaming and they have taken steps to disable streaming.
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