HTC Touch Diamond Overview and Comparison

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Overview of the HTC Touch Diamond

New smartphone flagship HTC, less than a year after leaving the first "HTC Touch", the next "Touch Diamond" wants to surpass the iPhone Apple, at least at technical level. To that end, it operates a system Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro, a VGA screen of 2.8 inches, while most of the WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0.

HTC Touch Diamond

Dedicated to the music and multimedia in general, the "Diamond Touch" also includes 4 GB of internal memory (Samsung MoviNAND), a chip A-GPS (GPS chip Qualcomm), an FM tuner, a processor clocked at Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 Mhz and a digital camera with 3.2 megapixel auto-focus. Remaining relatively end with 10.7 mm thick, Diamond is compatible with networks tribandes GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA (7.2 mbps). nterestingly, some operators specify that the product will be compatible with the standard HSUPA.


On the chip GPS device, it is noteworthy that it will not use any default browser. Indeed, unlike some offerings of mobile brand, TomTom Navigator software is not included here. However, the Diamond Touch comes with the software Google Maps with its function "My Rent" turned to detect its position by GPS or triangulation cellular / WiFi. Side Connection board, the smartphone includes a port Micro USB synchronization allowing it to recharge, to synchronize or use a hands-free kit wired. Too bad about a product potentially dedicated to music, Diamond Touch does not take Jack traditional audio.

For the rest, with overall dimensions of 99 x 51 x 10.7 mm with a weight of 110 grams, "Diamond Touch" incorporates an accelerometer to switch automatically to a landscape mode to a portrait mode (or vice versa), and a Li-Ion battery with a capacity of 900 mAh. The Diamond Touch does not have a Micro SD port.

-- Getting Started
This marks the most seeing for the first time the HTC Touch Diamond is its screen very bright colours and well made. As on previous models terminals Touch of the mark, the screen of the device is totally flat, as well as its associated buttons. In addition to its 2.8-inch screen, they are four mechanical buttons that are present with a front wheel navigation acting as D-Pad.

HTC Touch Diamond front


HTC Touch Diamond Back


HTC Touch Diamond Button Volumes


HTC Touch Diamond No location of Micro SD


Wheel of navigation to the iPod / Shift automatic landscape


HTC Touch Diamond Photo

The buttons respond well and the wheel has the same operating principle as the Apple iPod. It will be possible then to make circular motions to zoom in / zoom out in the images or web pages, or simply to move through different menus of its internal system. Different LEDs are integrated into the seam and light - in a circular also - to clarify that SMS was received or a call was missed, the whole course without having to turn on its screen. After the course of the discovery of its facade, the Diamond Touch also surprises with its 11 mm thick, while containing many technologies including HSDPA, WiFi or GPS.


HTC Diamond Touch: packaging and comparing size

-- The packaging of HTC Diamond Touch
The Diamond Touch comes with different textbooks to take control of the smartphone, with the need to recharge and synchronize with a PC, with a second stylus and finally with a wired hands-free kit with remote control to change music or stall and hang when using its telephony functions. The Diamond Touch comes in a box the triangular forms of the most successful aesthetically. The packaging also contains a shield for the Diamond but no case. The product is quite fragile, it will have an option to acquire protective case to avoid inter alia, that his screen scratches too quickly.

HTC Touch Diamond delivered in a box shaped triangular


HTC Touch Diamond Triangular Box


HTC Touch Diamond Triangular Box Photo

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HTC Touch Diamond contents in the box


HTC Touch Diamond Cable


HTC Touch Diamond New Charger


HTC Touch Diamond New Charger Photo


HTC Touch Diamond Hands Free Kit


HTC Touch Diamond Manuals and grip / Screen protection

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-- Comparative size between the HTC Touch Diamond and other smartphones market
In terms of compactness of the product, the Diamond HTC Touch is simply the Windows Mobile PDAPhone the smallest market even more compact than the first HTC Touch. Despite its height, which is substantially similar to the latter, it is especially its thickness which has been revised downwards. Needless to say, the Diamond Touch is therefore significantly more compact than iPhone, but it makes sense with a 2.8-inch screen against 3.5 inches for her eldest.

HTC Touch / Samsung F490 / Apple iPhone / HTC Touch Diamond


HTC Touch / HTC Touch Diamond


HTC Touch Diamond thinner than the HTC Touch


Nokia N95 8 GB / HTC Touch Diamond / Blackberry 8310 / Apple iPhone


HTC Touch Diamond is the most compact smartphone market

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The opinion of the Drafting

The HTC Touch Diamond is available for sale with all partners operators of the mark. In England, the product is available for example from 5 mobile operators in the market! In Europe and Asia, the Diamond Touch is now marketed since a few days. In the rest of the world, it will be available later this year.

The HTC Touch Diamond is one of those new smartphones touch screen optimized for use with one hand. After leaving the iPhone in June 2007, many manufacturers of mobile phones have tried to replicate the same innovative user interface of the device and the Diamond Touch really seems to approach especially because of the vast customization its operating system based on Windows Mobile 6.1.

Yet, even connoisseurs system sometimes forget what OS mobile Touch Diamond operates so its user interface has been refined and to suggest that very few menus "official" Microsoft. It is a real positive point, even the menus parameters of the device is accessible from the interface "Touch Flo 3D" fairly simple to use and running by default on the terminal. Here, he is no longer mandatory as on "Touch Flo" classic start or close the application, the new interface is always present on the screen.

In practice, we must admit that the Diamond Touch is not perfect. It has a very limited autonomy, especially in Push Mail, and is not really optimized so for use push for lovers of mobile mail. Especially since its tactile interface that displays 99 new messages, the messages being listed by an allusion "99 +" more displaced. In contrast, the d-pad will illuminate to prevent new mails or SMS messages received. And this is really very practical.

The Touch Flo then 3D is relatively fast to start up the device but will become very slow after a few hours or a few days of use. The blame for its mismanagement of memory, even closing time interval regular programs already open. It will therefore restart the device to find a level of usable memory suitable for managing its tactile interface. Its VGA monitor prevent then use some software GPS navigation, until their respective publishers do offer a version more suited to this smartphone. Finally, at the entry system with a virtual keyboard on mobile classic Diamond could have been better optimized. The keyboard itself is well designed for use on the finger but sometimes even pressing a button, it should not be taken into account by the system! It will therefore press a button, wait until it is taken into account by the system and pressing another button. Needless so quickly enter the virtual keyboard.

In conclusion, and always in the category of negative aspects of the product, it is to report its accelerometer, which allows you to automatically switch to landscape mode only a few applications: images, web browsing, games or posting videos. For programs like the calendar, the manager of notes or e-mails, the accelerometer will have no value. In the category of good surprises of the Diamond Touch mention its web browser Opera Mobile 9.5 very successful and displays web pages very quickly, how to link it as a USB drive to transfer large files, its interface YouTube Mobile practice use or touch interface which suffers certainly cumbersome memory but which is really nice, especially with regard to the display of the weather. Finally, it is always good to report, the Diamond Touch is the most compact smartphone running Windows Mobile made so far on the market. It is therefore one of the best "alternatives" of the iPhone (3G) Apple if one takes into account its tactile interface, power processor, its connectivity (WiFi, 3G +, A-GPS , 4 GB of memory) and its compactness.

Regarding the price of Diamond Touch, it depends on international markets and offers operators. It is marketed at a price of 569 euros excluding subsidies operator. So far, HTC sold more than 3 million smartphones the family Touch (HTC Touch, Touch and Dual Touch Cruise) since their release in June 2007. The market analysts rely on sales of 4 million smartphones HTC Touch Diamond passed throughout its lifetime.

HTC Touch Diamond Smartphone