Is there a 850 MHz HTC Touch Pro as advertised below?

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The site Popular Electronics (I have no personal connection of any kind) advertises for sale a 850 MHz Touch pro

http://www.popularelect.com/product_...ab=2&osCsid=10

and it specifies that it has an 850 MHz capability:

Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz (Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent)

Is this for real? All sites I have checked so far specify that the 850MHz version is not available as yet.

If the information of this site is for real, would it work for AT&T?

what a thousand dollar phone
these chinese pricks are getting ridiculous !!!(HTC)

In relation to my question: Is the 850 MHz part for real?
The actual store, btw, is in Chicago.

Correct if I'm wrong, but AFAIK all Pros are quad band GSM.

Yes, all of them have 850mhz available. And it's not Chinese, smart guy.

Originally Posted by michalopoulosgk

it specifies that it has an 850 MHz capability:

Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz (Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent)

Is this for real? All sites I have checked so far specify that the 850MHz version is not available as yet.

If the information of this site is for real, would it work for AT&T?

It is for real. Check out the specifications on the main htc website it says exactly the same thing. The Europe/Asia version will work on Verizon, but you won't be able to get WCDMA speeds. The US version has 850/1900 WCDMA, whereas the Europe/Asia version as mentioned on the HTC site has 900/2100. Would be nice if they could make one with all 4 WCDMA's


I have definitely seen some sites that claim the Touch Pro is only Tri-Band, but the HTC site would be the one to go by seeing as they made it an all

WCDMA (3G) is where it differs. All Touch Pro's do NOT have 850mhz WCDMA. You can get service everywhere, but only 3G in areas with 900/2100mhz 3G... AT&T uses 850/1900 for 3G.

Originally Posted by Black93300ZX

WCDMA (3G) is where it differs. All Touch Pro's do NOT have 850mhz WCDMA. You can get service everywhere, but only 3G in areas with 900/2100mhz 3G... AT&T uses 850/1900 for 3G.

lol I just saw your last post in the release date thread and edited my response, but I was too slow

Many thanks to all, this was very helpful.

Originally Posted by Black93300ZX

Yes, all of them have 850mhz available. And it's not Chinese, smart guy.

No they do not all have it activated, smart guy ....look here at the official Dutch HTC site specs:
http://www.htc.com/nl/product.aspx?id=54146
No 850mhz band... not even for gsm (voice) function. Its a triband not quadband....

And after browsing this forum for weeks now its still not clear to me if the 850mhz band can be activated with just a rom/radio update..... a lot of different opinions in here....

Somebody knows the 'truth'?