More evidence of a Touch Pro 2 world edition

Posted on Thursday, May 21, 2009 by Phil Nickinson
 
Filed Under: News; Tags: world phone, touch pro 2, sprint, rhodium, htc, gsm, cdma

We'd seen rumors that two of HTC's soon-to-be-released phones, the Touch Pro 2 and Snap, could well be sporting CDMA and GSM radios for some worldwide fun, and now we've got some official evidence to go with it.

Engadget spied a document in FCC testing of the Touch Pro 2 (aka Rhodium) that states there are in fact two radios on board, and that the GSM side "has been disabled by firmware and is SIM locked for all US operators."

So what's that mean? It's a world phone all right, but don't expect to be rocking dual CDMA/GSM in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Another item of note here is that there are two FCC IDs, the Rhodium 400 and the Rhodium 500, which very likely means versions for Sprint (which we just saw) and Verizon (which we don't expect to see anytime soon - see VZW Touch Diamond). Stay tuned.

 
 

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Im getting it with either T-Mobile or AT&T. i got Verizone and i hate it. service sucks here in the Bay Area CA

you must out your mind that so false I am from bay area and I had Verizon for 10 years not single drop calls

I am also waiting for them to put this phone out on AT&T since that is the 3G that we have here. Hurry up already... I'm dying here with my current Samsung Blackjack, I need a WM6 Pro phone but don't wanna waste my contract upgrade on a phone that will be replace in 2 months like the HTC Touch Pro, I want the Touch Pro 2 already.

Thanks for keeping up on the news.

But still no hints of US gsm 3G bands! Tmo, sprint and verizon are all set but all of us ATT users are out of luck!

I love the useless (and somewhat misleading comment) about Verizon's TP2 "which we don't expect to see anytime soon". Maybe Phil needs to do a little more looking before throwing random statements out there: http://d474rpr.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/imga5492.jpg

>> . . . the GSM side "has been disabled by firmware and is SIM locked for all US operators."

Gee, remember the olden days when we used to spend all of our time and effort trying to make the features work to help the customer, instead of figuring out how to block the features in order to screw the customer over.

And we wonder why American corporations have trouble competing in a world market.

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