{"id":6685,"date":"2009-04-06T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/2009\/04\/06\/touch-diamond-finally-coming-to-verizon-why\/"},"modified":"2009-04-06T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T15:26:00","slug":"touch-diamond-finally-coming-to-verizon-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=6685","title":{"rendered":"Touch Diamond Finally Coming to Verizon?  Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"BGR Photo: Verizon Wireless Touch Diamond\" border=\"0\" alt=\"BGR Photo: Verizon Wireless Touch Diamond\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bgr-verizondiamond.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"250\" \/> We\u2019re <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/reviews\/touch_diamond\/index.htm\" >not exactly fans<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/htc_touch_diamond.htm\" >HTC Touch Diamond<\/a>, and with the updated and Windows Mobile 6.5-ready <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/htc_touch_diamond2.htm\" >Touch Diamond2<\/a> just months (<a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/2009\/03\/11\/sprint-getting-touch-pro2-diamond2-in-may\/\" >or weeks?<\/a>) away, we were surprised to see that Verizon Wireless may begin offering the 1st gen Diamond later this month.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boygeniusreport.com\/2009\/04\/05\/vzw-htc-touch-diamon-to-launch-april-10-for-b2bwebtelesales-customers\/\"  >information comes from BGR<\/a>, which has a knack for getting it right when it comes to smartphone release dates.&#160; According to BGR, the Verizon Touch Diamond will be available for purchase this Friday, April 10, 2009.&#160; It will sell for $199 after a two-year service agreement and mail-in rebates.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">One interesting tidbit in the story: Verizon\u2019s version of the Touch Diamond will forego the onboard 4GB of flash memory in favor of a microSDHC memory card slot.&#160; While we love the idea of gigabytes of internal storage, the ability to add more storage via memory card is a feature that\u2019s too good to lack, and since you can pick up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B001L1H0SC\/palmsizepccentra\"  >16GB microSDHC card for around $40<\/a>, this seems like a no-brainer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We\u2019re not exactly fans of the HTC Touch Diamond, and with the updated and Windows Mobile 6.5-ready Touch Diamond2 just months (or weeks?) away, we were surprised to see that Verizon Wireless may begin offering the 1st gen Diamond later this month.<br \/>\nThis information comes from BGR, which has a knack for getting it right [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=6685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}