So the good news here is that Best Buy’s getting ready to open its arms to yet another HTC product that’s impossible to find by wandering into the brick-and-mortar store of the US wireless carrier of your choice; the bad news, though, is that it doesn’t seem to be the version we wanted. The Touch Diamond now has a Coming Soon page all its own on Best Buy’s site, which is just fantastic considering that neither AT&T nor T-Mobile have yet bothered to pick it up — but the problem is that the specifications make no mention of US 3G despite the fact that we know there’s just such a version floating around. Our hope is that we’ve just caught the big box with its pants down (wouldn’t be the first time) and they’ll look into carrying the real deal by the time “coming soon” switches to “in stock,” especially since they’ve given the Touch Dual the same courtesy.
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2008 has generally treated Espoo pretty well, but every rose has its thorn — and for Nokia, that thorn might just end up being the third quarter. The company has now revised its Q3 market share estimate downward, now predicting a slip from Q2 rather than the flat line it’d been suggesting before; cited reasons include a “tactical decision to not meet certain aggressive pricing of some competitors,” generally fierce competition (particularly on the low end), and the delayed launch of an unnamed midrange handset. In justifying its failure to meet market pricing head-on in every market segment, Nokia says it’s only going to play that game where it thinks it’s profitable to do so, and for what it’s worth, it still expects to ship about 10 percent more devices in 2008 than it did in 2007. What’s more, they say they expect to meet the rest of their expected launch dates in ‘08 — so it looks like every night has its dawn after all.
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