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HTC Touch Diamond

First seen: 11 february 2008

Information found in: from 188 sources in 32 countries.

Best Price: 359.95 USD

  • User Score (684)
    7.7 7.7 from 684 reviewers
  • Expert Score (57)
    7.0 7.0 from 57 reviewers
  • Design (76)
    6.8 6.8 from 76 reviewers
  • Value for money (30)
    5.1 5.1 from 30 reviewers
  • Features (24)
    6.1 6.1 from 24 reviewers
  • Ease of use (35)
    5.4 5.4 from 35 reviewers
  • Performance (8)
    4.6 4.6 from 8 reviewers
  • Sound quality (51)
    6.2 6.2 from 51 reviewers
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Pros & Cons

  • stylish and pocket friendly, higher quality screen, emoticon button on keyboard, slide out phone dialer, vibrant touch screen display
  • cannot increase font size, small qwerty onscreen keyboard, sluggish performance at times, kinda short battery life, it lags sometimes

Re-defining the perception of advanced mobile phones… the HTC Touch Diamond™ signals a giant leap forward in combining hi-tech prowess with intuitive usability and exhilarating design. Featuring a sharp 2.8-inch touch screen housed within a stunning formation of brushed metal  and flawless faceted edges, the HTC Touch Diamond is as beautiful to behold as it is to use. With HTC’s vibrant touch-responsive user interface, TouchFLO™ 3D, and ultra-fast HSDPA internet conne…

Manufacturer's Specs

  • Processor
    Qualcomm® MSM7201A™ 528 MHz
  • Operating System
    Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
  • Memory
    ROM: 256 MB RAM: 192 MB DDR SDRAM Internal storage: 4 GB
  • Dimensions
    102 mm (L) X 51 mm (W) X 11.35 mm (T)
  • Weight
    110 g (with battery)
  • Display
    2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with VGA resolution
  • Network
    HSDPA/WCDMA: Europe/Asia: 900/2100 MHz Up to 384 kbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: Europe/Asia: 900/1800/1900 MHz (Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent.)

Release Date

  • First seen
    11 February 2008

HTC Touch Diamond

The HTC Touch Diamond runs with a 528 MHz Qualcomm Processor using the Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional operating system. Internal memory storage is up to 4 GB, at 256 MB ROM, 192 MB DDR SDRAM. It measures 102 mm x 51 mm x 11.35 mm, and weighs 110 g (with battery). Screen display is a 2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with VGA resolution. The HTC Touch Diamond is Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and operates at frequencies in Europe/Asia at 900/2100 MHz (operator dependant), wit…

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HTC Touch Diamond

The HTC Touch Diamond runs with a 528 MHz Qualcomm Processor using the Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional operating system. Internal memory storage is up to 4 GB, at 256 MB ROM, 192 MB DDR SDRAM. It measures 102 mm x 51 mm x 11.35 mm, and weighs 110 g (with battery). Screen display is a 2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with VGA resolution. The HTC Touch Diamond is Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and operates at frequencies in Europe/Asia at 900/2100 MHz (operator dependant), with up to 384 kbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds.

Features

The HTC Touch Diamond features the Device Control TouchFLO™ 3D, utilising touch-sensitive navigation control. It has GPS, as well as A-GPS ready Connectivity Bluetooth® 2.0 with EDR and Wi-Fi® at IEEE 802.11 b/g. Remote connectivity is via HTC ExtUSB (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack on the ends of each cable). Main camera is a 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus, whilst secondary camera is VGA CMOS sensor color camera. It also has built-in microphone, speaker and FM radio. Ring tone supported formats are MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV, and AMR-NB and 40 polyphonic/Standard MIDI. Battery is a rechargeable Lithium-ion 900 mAh, providing talk time of up to 270 minutes for WCDMA, and up to 330 minutes for GSM. Standby time is up to 396 hours for WCDMA and up to 285 hours for GSM. Video call time is up to 145 minutes for WCDMA.

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  • Reviews of HTC Touch Diamond

  1. HTC Diamond mobile phone

    Reviewer: Pocket Lint
    25 June 2008
    Overall 9
    9.0
     

    HTC has created a device that is a the best iPhone challenger we've seen to date and offers those not keen to switch to Apple or O2 the chance to get touchy feely with their phone. Compared to the Samsung i900 this is light years ahead, compared to the BlackBerry Curve, users will miss the QWERTY keyboard and while the touchscreen keyboard does go someway to replacing this it’s just not the same experience. However BlackBerry Pearl users should be fine. Against the... Read more

  2. HTC Touch Diamond review

    Reviewer: Mobile Choice UK
    15 July 2008
    Overall 6
    6.0
    Features 8
    8.0
    Ease of use 4
    4.0
    Performance 6
    6.0
     

    A feature-packed smartphone in a designer shell. Unfortunately what the Touch Diamond has in looks, it sadly lacks in usability. Read more

  3. HTC Touch Diamond review

    Reviewer: ZDNet
    14 July 2008
    Overall 7
    6.7
     

    HTC's Touch Diamond crams a multitude of features into a compact and stylish device, topped off by a flashy user interface. However, the TouchFLO 3D interface has too many rough edges and the battery life is terrible. Read more

  4. HTC Touch Diamond

    Reviewer: TrustedReviews
    3 November 2008
    Overall 7
    7.0
    Value for money 6
    6.0
    Features 9
    9.0
    Performance 6
    6.0
     

    Never believe the hype - it's a saying that I place great faith in, because (most of the time) it's true. I've lost count of the number of times a movie that's been hyped as the "must see" of the year, complete with fabulous trailers and impressive special effects, has turned out to be a turkey. It doesn't just apply to movies: it happens in sport (take the Dutch national football side - so often highly rated, so often also-rans), and often in the technology industry... Read more

  5. HTC Touch Diamond

    Reviewer: Mobile computer
    7 July 2008
    Overall 5
    5.0
     

    The HTC Touch Diamond tries hard to be the iPhone, but while its web browser is first-class, it just fails to convince elsewhere Read more

  1. Reviewer: Alfonso Malheiro, handtec
    10 November 2008
    Overall 10
    10
     

    Hi I think all negatives reviews that I was reading about Diamond, was based on the earlier units... because my its working like a charm. I have it for a few days now, and no prob.... Read more

  2. Nothing can reach this Diamond - (The I phone Killer is arrived)

    Reviewer: eXpansys
    24 August 2008
    Overall 10
    10
     

    Best feature ever A high speed internet and processes, so the capacity is not important to methe features are extremely hot, Really it's the I Phone killer Read more

  3. Touch Diamond

    Reviewer: russell0411, Stuff.tv
    26 February 2009

    This phone is disgusting to use! I got it thinking it would be the answer to all my needs: internet, qwerty, windows mobile etc, but it is a nightmare. It is so slow to do anything, constantly stalling and needing turning off or the sim taking out to start it again. The internet cuts out randomly and the screen fills with a blank space where the keypad should be. Texting is an infuriating experience: the keys are unresponsive and words are slow to appear on the screen.... Read more

  4. HTC Touch Diamond Good and the Bad

    Reviewer: Dooyoo
    4 weeks ago
    Overall 10
    10
     

    the Diamond! I have had this phone now going on 8 months. About it: This phone is probably one of the best I have had the pleasure of using. it runs on windows mobile with and overlay of HTC's very own Touch-Flo 3D which runs extremely smoothly. It contains everything you need in this modern age such as wifi and full internet browsing. Touch-Flo 3d: Touch flo is a beautiful design showing you your emails and messages along with contacts in a 3d view it has all your... Read more

  5. Nic touches but dragged down in some areas

    Reviewer: Amazon
    2 weeks ago
    Overall 4
    4.0
     

    The phone looks and feels slick but for me it was disapointing, the cons are The control pad at the bottom 9 button all on top of each other left, right, up, down, home,endcall, start call,back and the select butto so you will find urself hitting the wrong buttons however this is unlikely as you will nott use the d pad much I highly recomend getting the screen prtector and/ or case however this can play havoc if it comes out of screen saver mode and i use a pin lock and... Read more

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