Comments on: Telus To Start Selling the CDMA HTC Touch Diamond in Canada this week

By: Hate CDMA

Hate CDMA — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:42:12 +0000

I thing The Radio App is missing. Regarding google maps, I have a bell CDMA. I did a hard rest and everytime it asked me to install bell ui, I did a soft rest after about 5 min, I was running factory default settings and was able to install Google maps.

By: Matteo

Matteo — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:19:37 +0000

The Telus version of this phone is so Lame! No FM radio, a boring Plastic back plate, NO Picture/video messaging, NO front camera (for video calls), NO proper headphone jack (but that’s not Telus’ fault), and then there’s that GPS thing that people have been talking about….

They are a company of Retards.

By: moremoney

moremoney — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:15:31 +0000

thanks for your post,great info.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:12:03 +0000

I’m not sure about this, but the first gen diamond phones from Telus doesn’t have Google Maps blocked. However, I have noticed that Telus Navigator for the Diamond is still NOT available. If someone out there has a Telus HTC Touch Diamond WITH a working Telus Navigator on the phone, please let me know how you got it, as I do want the software, but I know I won’t be using it enough to pay $10/mo. for it.

BTW, Google Maps uses a fairly small amount of your data plan, because it has to go online for the maps, and if no GPS satellites are available, it will connect to the cellphone towers to extrapolate your position. However, connecting to the GPS satellites doesn’t cost anything.

By: dan

dan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:25:47 +0000

Google maps works fine on mine, never changed any settings, downloded via IE. The mian problem I’m having with the phone is Telus pocket express doesn’t work, been talking to tech support and they havn’t been able to figure it out, and telus navigator app isn’t available for the touch diamond yet anyways

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:59:59 +0000

It appears Telus has blocked google maps. I get a failure to install on my Diamond. Techs at Telus confirm the current phones are blocked. Any suggestions on how to unblock the phone?

By: Faz

Faz — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:51:22 +0000

I did the above setting for GPS and downloaded Google Map. I doesn’t show any satalites on clear sky. I spoke to HTC Tech support, they dodn’t help much.

By: crazy

crazy — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:37:06 +0000

hey Burt… i tried this:
All Settings -> System -> External GPS
under Program port: None
Hardware port: COM4

I fired up Google maps then had to select option: “Use GPS”. voila!
you might have to select “My Location” so the marker will pan to your current spot.

now I too wonder if my data plan covers this…

By: Mike Gauthier

Mike Gauthier — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:23:43 +0000

Thanks for the Google Maps tip Mikey – took all of about 30 seconds to download and get it working. Very cool. I wonder if the GPS activity will be covered by my data plan. That could be a month end shock!

Would be nice to get the fm radio working as easily.

By: pv

pv — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:14:21 +0000

Any idea about FM radio? Do you know of any free software that would give you this?