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HTC fans can rejoice as the Touch Diamond has begun to show up a little earlier than expected at a handful of online retailers. Originally scheduled for an “early-June” release date, it seems these lucky few retailers were fortunate enough to get an early shipment, and if you are willing to shell out the rather high price tag one can be yours. Currently being listed on three websites, which include DechoWireless, PopularElectronics and Welectronics. The Touch Diamond is retailing as low as $780 and topping out at $900, this pricing is of course for an unlocked version. If like us, you have never shopped any of these retailers, its pretty safe to think that once we see the official release date come that we will also see a wider selection of sites to shop from.

Via [IntoMobile]

While we can all read the specs and look at the images and dream about how much we would like to get our hands on the Touch Diamond, but with the phone not yet available, and only having been announced in London, hands on time is at a minimum. It seems that HTC has taken that into consideration and provided quite a bit of material to check it out in action, courtesy of their YouTube channel.

First up we have the introduction:

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As we expected, Tuesday has come and so has the announcement from HTC. They have officially unveiled the Touch Diamond, which is being referred to as their new flagship product, and judging from the specs it seems worthy of that title.

The Touch Diamond will feature a 2.8-inch touchscreen VGA quality display, 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera as well as a second VGA camera on the front, 256MB ROM/192MB RAM, 4GB of internal memory, integrated GPS, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and an accelerometer. The handset will be running Windows Mobile 6.1 and powered by a Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 MHz processor.

The Touch Diamond will also have TouchFLO 3D, which is aimed to make using your phone easier, by reacting “perfectly to your finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, browsing the web, and launching media.” With the combination of the HSDPA 7.2 connectivity, TouchFLO 3D and the built-in Opera browser with zoom-in capabilities HTC is claiming the Touch Diamond will offer an “online experience to rival a notebook computer.” In addition the Touch Diamond will also feature one-touch music playback, a built-in microphone, speaker, FM radio with RDS and both a pre-loaded YouTube and Google Maps application.

The Touch Diamond will first be available via Orange in Europe beginning in June, with Asia and the Middle East to follow later in this quarter and both Latin and North America to follow during the second half of 2008. At this time a price has not been announced.

Keep reading for some more images of the HTC Touch Diamond…

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