HTC Touch Diamond
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After a few phones in the Touch series , HTC continued to develop
this segment and the lasted phone is the Touch Diamond.The Diamond
is the successor of the HTC Touch , and thought it has more functions
than it's predecessor , the Diamond isn't much more expensive than
the HTC Touch.HTC positions the Diamond as a phone with extra features
, so the HTC Touch Diamond should be easy to use and user friendly.
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The sales package contains : Handset , charger, data cable,
software CD and wired headset .
The HTC Touch Diamond has a unique design and doesn't resemble any other
previous device from HTC.The design may resemble the Nokia Prism series
a little bit.The casing is made out of glossy plastic. The complex edgy
surface of the rear, isn't just a visual effect , the device really has
numerous facets and edges on the phone.The build quality is very good
, it felt like a solid and well build device. The front side is divided
into two sections , one holding the display and a smaller one with the
navigation cluster.The screen sits underneath a layer of glass , but a
downside is that it will easily cover with finger prints , but of course
this a common problem for all touch screen devices.
The HTC Touch Diamond has a small and compact size ,
and there isn't any comparison with any other communicator. The Diamond
is also relatively light, but considering its size, this weight seems
quite unusual.The Diamond will easily fit into any pocket or bag.
The HTC Touch Diamond is the first ever mobile device to have a VGA(640x480
pixels) resolution display with 65 000 colors.The display has a diagonal
of 2.8-inch and this combined with the VGA resolution give you a picture
quality that's better than any other device.You may choose the brightness
for the display manually but the handset an ambient light sensor that
will adjust the brightness of the automatically.As you know the display
is made as a touch screen and we can say that it's really responsive the
device managing to pick up even the smallest touch. Another positive about
the Diamond is that managing it with the stylus is no longer a pain like
it was the case with the HTC Touch Cruise.
As you previously said the front face is composed of the screen and
the navigation cluster , and above the display there is a VGA camera for
videoconferencing. The right side has no controls , just the writing "4
Gb Internal Storage".The left side has the volume rocker , and has
writing of "HTC Innovation".The upper part houses the power
button and the loudspeaker , as for the bottom , the only thing that we
can find here is HTC's trademark ExtUSB socket, that accepts chargers,
data cables and headsets.The back side has only the 3.2 megapixel camera.
The stylus is located at the place where the right-hand side splices with
the back cover and the Diamond's SIM is placed next to the battery at
the base of the casing.
The HTC Touch Diamond has just a 900 mAh Li-Ion battery
, and as the manufacturer claims the battery will last for 5.5 hours of
talk time (GSM) and 285 hours of standby. But in real life , these figures
will be even lower , so the Diamond will probably last for a day before
you have to recharge it again.
Camera
The HTC Touch Diamond has a 3.2 Megapixel CMOS camera with autofocus.The
device doesn't have a dedicated camera button so the only way to turn
on the camera is the TouchFLO 3D user interface, and taking images is
done with the help of the central select button.
The available resolutions are :
· 3 M - 2048x1536
· 2 M - 1600x1200
· 1 M - 1280x960
· L - 640x480
· M - 320x240
All in all the HTC Touch Diamond take pretty decent shots if the
lighting conditions are right.
Here is a photo taken with HTC Touch Diamond:
The HTC Diamond benefits from EDGE and HSDPA high speed data transfer
and it can work both in GSM (900/1800/1900) and UMTS (900/2100) networks.As
for the wireless connectivity the phone has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
and all the important profiles are supported including AD2P. For PC synchronization
and data transfer you can use the miniUSB cable shipping with the handset.
Conclusions
The HTC Touch Diamond manages to be a Windows Mobile powered device
for the masses as HTC intended.Of course like all devices it has some
drawbacks but on the other hand it's innovative design , it's brilliant
display and it's functions make it a great device for every day use.
Below you can watch a couple of videos about HTC Touch Diamond :
