The HTC Touch Diamond2 is on its way but in the mean time Verizon Wireless seems ready to officially launch its own original Touch Diamond. The phone will be available for B2B, web and telesales customers starting with April 10 while everyone else will get later on. The phone will sell for $199.99 with a 2-year agreement after mail-in rebates. The phone is also available for $469.99 just in case you don’t want to be tied to Verizon for two more years.

Just in case you forgot what an HTC Touch Diamond features, here’s a quick list of specs:

• CPU: Qualcomm 7500A
• Speed: 528 MHz
• RAM size: 128MB
• Flash size: 256MB
• Display resolution: 480×640
• 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus

via BGR

The applications on board of that new HTC Touch Diamond2 are all available for download. As you can imagine they are not official and they have been ripped off the ROM of the Touch Diamond2. Here’s what’s available:

• HTC Calculator 1.0.1822.4128
• HTC Album 2.5.1820.4127 w/ Social Networking (Thanks to herg at XDA)
• Opera v9.5 build 15613
• Diamond 2 Sensor with apps regedit ( Thanks to herg at XDA for additional apps)
• Diamond 2 QuickGPS 1.0.1911.1733
• Diamond 2 Keyboard With Arrows ( Thanks to savage25rcracer)
• Diamond 2 Keyboard Without Arrows (Thanks to savage25rcracer)
• Diamond 2 Keyboard With Arrows in Landscape Only (Thanks to savage25rcracer)
• Diamond 2 Email Wizard
• Diamond 2 Volume Control 2.1.1911.2331

via WMPoweruser

For all those disappointed souls hoping for a Verizon Touch Diamond, don’t lose hope just yet.  BGR has a couple of photos to prove that there is indeed is a Touch Diamond waiting to hop on Verizon’s back, but with a few changes that would go unnoticed if you aren’t really looking for them.  Most of the specs remain the same as the other Diamond versions including the Sprint’s Touch Diamond, aside from taking a cut on the ROM/RAM side to 256/128MB.

There is still no word on a release date but with the Touch Diamond2 on its way in a few months, it remains to be seen if Verizon will actually go ahead and release the older version.