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HTC Touch-Diamond

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The HTC is a 3G enabled smartphone that sports Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional under a clever TouchFlo menu system. Key features include handwriting recognition, FM radio, media player, Wifi, GPS, HSDPA data, 4GB internal memory and a 3.15 megapixel camera.
What’s Good: Stunning hardware design and elegant software user interface; front panel is subdued, intuitive and refined; display is bright and sharp with excellent contrast; sensitive touch-screen; amazing orientation and localized haptic feedback capabilities; secondary camera for video calls; easy internet connection sharing; glorious font rendition.

What’s Not Good: Stylus is a virtual requirement for accessing certain parts of the user interface; landscape mode is underutilized and landscape QWERTY availability is far too rare; some minor integration flaws between Windows Mobile 6.1 and TouchFLO 3D; no memory expansion options; proprietary HTC USB jack for headphones.

Bottom Line: With its unique body and incredibly sleek interface, HTC's Touch Diamond is a beautiful, distinguished handset. The crisp display is a joy to play with, and the screen is very responsive to the touch. The accelerometers are equally sensitive and accurate, and the localized haptic feedback is the best I've ever experienced. Innovative hard and software interface elements, like the nearly imperceptible scroll ring, are so well-integrated and gratifying that they make you wonder how you ever lived without them. It's an amazing phone, but the occasional behavioral oddity and unfulfilled expectation are evidence that the software needs to catch up with the very capable hardware.

Specs:

  • Make/Model: HTC Touch Diamond
  • Network: GSM/HSDPA: 900/1800/1900 and 900/2100, respectively.
  • Data: GPRS/EDGE/W-CDMA, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0
  • Carrier: Unlocked
  • Size: 102 X 51 X 11.35 mm
  • Weight: 110 g
  • Form Factor: Candy bar with Touchscreen
  • Display: 2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with VGA resolution
  • Memory: 256 MB ROM, 192 MB RAM, Internal storage: 4 GB
  • Notable Features: Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, TouchFLO™ 3D, GPS (A-GPS-capable with additional free software),
  • FM Radio,
  • 3.2 MP camera with auto focus, and a secondary VGA CMOS cam for video calls.

To preface this review, and hopefully prevent some confusion, I need to clarify some differences in the three versions of the Touch Diamond that are available at the time of this writing (thank you, Noah). There is the European 3G, unlocked device, which I used in preparation for this review; there is a North American 3G, GSM unlocked variation, which is identical to the European version, outside of frequency band usage; and there is Sprint's CDMA phone, which does introduce some minor changes in form and function to the Diamond line-up. One of my complaints regarding the European Diamond is battery life, which has been addressed in the Sprint release. A trade-off is that the secondary camera for video calls is missing from Sprint's phone.

You can catch Noah's full video review of the Sprint Diamond here: Part 1, and Part 2.

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