Sprint to begin taking pre-orders of HTC 7 Pro on November 8th for Microsoft employees

By on Nov 1, 2010 at 1:23 PM
Exclusive November 1, 2010

We’ve just confirmed with wireless carrier Sprint that the company will begin taking pre-orders for the HTC 7 Pro Windows Phone 7 device beginning on November 8th. Now, before you get too excited… the offer is for Microsoft employees only. Sprint did not share any additional details about the why the employee program exists, what general consumer availability of the device would be, or device pricing. Sprint’s statement contradicts rumors that have been circulating the web stating that the company would be offering pre-orders of the HTC device to the general public on the 8th.

Regardless of the employee pre-order date, HTC has publicly stated that the CDMA-capable 7 Pro would not be available until sometime in 2011. Combine that unambiguous statement with the fact that HTC did not have a working prototype of the device at the WP7 launch event last month, and: 2011 still seems like the proper timeline to us. Although, in this instance… we wouldn’t mind being wrong.

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  • http://twitter.com/rrescot Robert Rescot

    Could it be that the reason the device was “non-functional” was that Miscrosoft was/is working on making the WP7 interface (tiles) landscape friendly? This is the only Windows Phone 7 model that has a side-slide out keyboard that would make landscape mode a desirable feature. I can’t image that it is that difficult to port GSM software to CDMA, I mean Windows Mobile 6.5 and prior are all CDMA compatible so Microsoft has done that before. However, up to this point there has never been a landscape WP7 interfaced demoed. Would this be the first and is that why it was “non functional” at launch… to avoid showing off the new functionality that is/was still being tested.

  • Anonymous

    This new blogging layout really sucks. I miss the old layout.

    • Anonymous

      you just wanted to ding Robert is why…lol

  • swami

    yea that’s gonna work really great with those ugly tiles that don’t change orientation to landscape mode

  • http://darnell-chat.myopenid.com/ Darnell

    November 8th or December 8th for Microsoft employees, which is it? The title of the post says “December”.

  • Anonymous

    What bands does Sprint use? I am wondering if I can snag one for my carrier, thanks.

    Disregard my comment, I see it’s a no go anyways,duh.

  • Anonymous

    Hey sprint, thanks for Dicking your regular customers(who are more important). Anyway…im gonna go out on a limb and say that Sprint would make this phone available for A January release….Windows mobile isn’t that serious to where you would need to preorder something months in advance. This isn’t the EVO 2 or HTC Speedy or anything like that.

    Besides….if you work for Microsoft..shouldn’t you have gotten one for free by now?

    • http://twitter.com/Slipdisc Slipdisc

      “Besides….if you work for Microsoft..shouldn’t you have gotten one for free by now? ”

      Not if you were a CDMA kinda guy or girl. Its the first CDMA WP7 device to be announced.

      But you can be damn sure that it was NOT Sprint’s decision to not be able to release it to everyone yet. I’m certain they wouldn’t just turn their backs on a potentially huge smartphone customer base in favor of a small percentage of MS employees that are in the US and even interested in a CDMA device.

      Make no mistake– every company is in this business to make money. I don’t think Sprint is dicking anyone, I think your a little anxious to get your hands on a WP7 device, and I share that feeling.

      My guess is within 6-8 months there will be a plethora of devices available on every US carrier.

  • DA

    maybe they want some employees to get the device and debug..who knows….

    I’m switching carriers as soon as that Dell Lightning hits the stores.

  • Anonymous

    The specs arent even fully conformired for this phone..

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