Sprint 2009 Smartphone Roadmap Excites, Confuses

Sprint 2009 Device Roadmap - HTC Touch Pro2 PhoneNews.com has obtained Sprint’s 2009 device roadmap, a document which shows what smartphones Sprint plans to release this year.

The roadmap contains detailed information regarding the release of three Windows Mobile devices (four if you count the already-released Sprint Treo Pro), and some of that news is a bit confusing. 

One slide in the roadmap (shown above) states that the HTC Touch Pro2, which the document refers to as the HTC Rhodium, will not debut until Q4; however we’ve heard rumor that the Pro2 will debut in the late second or early 3rd quarter, and in fact, another slide in the roadmap places the Rhodium for a Q3 release.  The document also states that the Touch Pro2 will run Windows Mobile 7.x, although version 7 of the Windows Mobile OS isn’t due until well into 2010.  This likely refers to Windows Mobile 6.5 rather than 7.

There is no mention in the document of a Sprint version of the HTC Touch Diamond2.

Other noteworthy information from the Roadmap: Sprint plans to release two other Windows Mobile smartphones this year, the Samsung Ace II (a replacement to the current Samsung Ace) and the HTC Cedar (a low-end WinMo smartphone).  We’ll be posting more information on these devices later in the day. 

Here are more Windows Mobile relevant slides from the Sprint 2009 roadmap:

2009 Smartphone Roadmap

HTC Cedar

Samsung Ace II

Photos courtesy of PhoneNews.com.

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