umts 850 supported?

[siklosib]

Hi,

does anybody know if this phone supports UMTS on 850 Mhz? According to the specification on the HTC Europe homepage it does not. Here in Latin America according to some salesman the version for America supports it. But since this model is not yet on the HTC Latin America homepage i'm not sure if it was already launched or if even exist a vesion for America.

thanks,

[jomo25]

no version for US avail yet. The US version, assuming its a GSM phone (not CDMA), would support 850. But no announcement offically about that yet. ALL CURRENTLY AVAILABLE DIAMONDS as of July 2, 2008 DO NOT SUPPORT 850 UMTS, and to date, no one has found a way to make it support 850 UMTS (i.e. it is a hardware issue, not a software or ROM issue).

[wfhowell]

If we (I) am lucky,,,this will happen.

http://www.mobilecityonline.com/wireless/store/productdetail.asp?productid=23369
http://www.htcphonestore.com/product.asp?itemMDL=HTC_DIAMOND_US

[goneill]

It has been announced here in Australia that our biggest carrier, Telstra will market the Diamond exclusively for 3 months from the end of July with a 850/2100 UMTS version. Other carriers here use 900/2100 UMTS.

So where we normally get these devices early with Asia and Europe, this Telstra deal will push us back with the U.S. I don't think we will see a 900 UMTS version here till end October, unless we buy online from HK or elsewhere with compromised warranty.

Bummer.

[bjgtir]

Telstra in Australia has announced that the "NextG" i.e 850MHz UTMS/HSDPA diamond will be released in August

[ResLo]

The Diamond will go on sale in Australia on July 28th at the T-Life stores in Sydney and Melbourne.

All other Telstra stores will stock it from August 4th.