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Good news for Telus customers. The carrier will soon be bringing the CDMA version of the HTC Touch Diamond to Canada. The handset will cost $149.99 CAD with a 3-year contract and one of the data plans randing from $15 to $30.

Sprint, now it's your turn.

Judging by the picture leaked from the PPCGeeks forum, apparently there's a CDMA version of the HTC Touch Diamond coming soon to Sprint. Specifications remain the same with the GSM variant, only the interface is slightly different.

No word on pricing and availability yet, so stay tuned...

According to DigiTimes, Hong Kong CSL is about to get the first batch of over 10,000 HTC Touch Diamond smartphones.

Next in line are European / Asia-Pacific operators, which should be receiving the device in June.

But that's all that was mentioned in the report - no info on the availability in the U.S., sorry...

Previously HTC planned to have 2 millions of Touch Diamond smartphones sold by the end of the year.

But now Chinese "Commercial Times" reports that according to HTC's CEO Peter Chou, the company expects to sell 3 million units in the next 7 months starting June.

HTC announced they plan to manufacture and sell 2 million Touch Diamonds by the end of the year.

It doesn't sound unrealistic, especially when you consider that previously the Touch smartphone has managed to hit the 1 million mark in just 5 months.

We're sure that Touch Diamond won't be less popular, so go ahead, HTC, launch the

Eprice has posted several photos of the new HTC Touch Diamond unpacking.

Here you can see what is included in the package. Note that the smart leather case presented by phonemag is not included in the retail box.

Briefly: HTC held a press conference in Taiwan yesterday.

The spokesman announced that the company's new Diamond smartphone will be available there in June for $772 sans contract.

Note that the price may change depending on the region.

The upcoming HTC Touch Diamond is now featured at the FCC site.

This could mean that the U.S. release is not far away from now, or is it? We'll see, but it would be a shame if this beauty won't make it stateside, after all this is the best HTC smartphone yet (IMHO).

While you wait for it, you can always visit FCC website and get all the information you need.