May 6 2008

HTC Touch Diamond officially unveiled

HTC Touch Diamond

HTC Touch Diamond

(Credit: HTC)

As expected, HTC officially took the wraps off the HTC Touch Diamond at a press conference in London Tuesday and great googly moogly, does this thing look hot! Not only does it look sexy from the outside with its sleek, black casing, but the Touch Diamond also features a revamped TouchFlo 3D interface that gives you a more animated and easier way to access your contacts, messages, and other content. You can do all this via the Diamond's gorgeous 2.8-inch, 680x480 VGA (yes, that's right, VGA) touch screen; plus, there's a new touch-sensitive control below the display to help you out.

The Touch Diamond is a lot more than just looks, though. The quad-band smartphone runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and has integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS, and HSDPA support. HTC also noted that it will ship the Touch Diamond with a customized mobile Web browser that provides an optimized view of pages and lets you zoom and pan sites with one hand. In addition, the page orientation will automatically go from portrait to landscape mode when you turn the device sideways (hmm, sounds familiar. *cough, iPhone, cough, cough*) Other goodies include a 3.2-megapixel camera, 4GB internal storage, 256MB flash memory, and 192MB RAM.

The HTC Touch Diamond will start shipping in European markets this June, and then later in the quarter for Asia and the Middle East. As for us, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that we're actually getting our own version but unfortunately, we, as well as Latin American markets, will have to wait till the second half of 2008. Now, while the Touch Diamond certainly looks like a gem (sorry, had to do it), we're hoping it's more than just flash. And we couldn't help but be reminded of a similar-looking smartphone from Velocity Mobile. Mmm hmm, things just got interesting. Check out CNET UK's hands-on examination and our photo gallery of the HTC Touch Diamond.

Posted in: Gadget news, PDAs, Phones
Tags: HTC Touch Diamond, Windows Mobile 6.1, smartphones, cell phones
 

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by techprophet May 6, 2008 9:54 AM PDT
Why couldn't they just use a linux or palm operating system that actually has useful apps instead of tons of half-built games and office apps? It would simplify things. I would buy one if it ran Palm or android or another OS like one of those.
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by viditbhargava May 6, 2008 2:11 PM PDT
Sexy phone....tons of features n a cool new interface...did someone mention iphone in the description above??? is it cool anymore...iphone is so 2007...just 1 feature u have to point out is d portrait to landscape mode feature...well this was first used in canon cameras should u mention dat???...wat else...does d iphone has gps???3G???HSDPA???3.2mp cam???? huh...guys grow up :)
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by cant_get_enough_tech May 6, 2008 4:37 PM PDT
That can almost run ubuntu! Powerful bugger!
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by stra0373 May 10, 2008 9:50 PM PDT
its windows mobile. Itll lock up, itll lag constantly, itll be a piece of hot trash after the first week, i could make a better phone out of a ti85 and coat hanger. I want to like windows mobile but every single device out there is hot trash. Worthless junk, manufacturers are forced to place their own interface on top of it to make it some what usable and it slows down the hot trash even more, WORTHLESS!!!!
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