Performance
The problem isn't that TouchFLO 3D is badly designed: it's that it's sluggish and incredibly frustrating to use. Sure, we like that HTC has tried to make it easier to access features like music and photos. Sadly, the overwhelming reality of TouchFLO 3D is that it's far too slow compared to the iPhone's interface.
What makes matters worse is that the Touch Diamond's screen responsiveness and the TouchFLO 3D interface simply don't mesh together in a smooth and reliable way. At times, you feel like you're dragging mud rather than pushing an ice cube. We often found doing the simplest of tasks, such as dialling a number or text messaging, tiresome.
If you're wondering how the text messaging interface fares, don't get excited. HTC has implemented a variety of finger-friendly, on-screen keyboards, but there's a problem. In certain areas of the phone in which there are multiple fields, particularly areas that haven't been meshed well with the Windows Mobile interface, the HTC keyboards cover up the your typing area so that you can't see what you're doing.
While the Touch Diamond might look similar to the iPhone and have a few of the same interface features, this is definitely not an iPhone. The Touch Diamond looks slicker than any Windows Mobile device out there, but it's still very much a Windows Mobile experience. Every now and then, you're launched back into the familiar but fiddly Windows Mobile interface, away from TouchFLO 3D, and that left us deeply disappointed.
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doug1234 18 July 2012
Good: The touch sreen
Bad: Battery
Comment: This phone was 2nd hand
But the battery iss VERY POOR
Oliver85 1 August 2009
Good: Google maps, weather reports and microsoft office, reasonable build quality.
Bad: Slow performance, battery life, crashing all the time and random calling.
Comment: I got this as a free upgrade, thinking this will change my life etc but I was wrong. I owned the phone for 8 months and it had to go, performance was slow, kept crashing at times and just froze, navigation buttons would skip to the next menu that I did not use. All in all, nice try but this phone did not do the job for me.
kpaxm77 27 July 2009
Good: user Interface not very bad
Bad: Newton rings, Poor customer care, Poor PC connectivity
Comment: Just google HTC Touch diamond with Newtons rings and you will find terrible sad tales. I bought mine 11 months back and it has developed the so called newton rings. The customer care insistes that this was caused by misuse whereas I have taken care of it like my baby.An inherent problem in diamonds, the screen has ring like patterns when this problem starts showing itself. Mine is under warranty and they say this does not come under warranty. Send it to them for repairs and you will have to cough up atleast £15 to get it back plus the repair charges if you decide to get it repaired. A sorry state of affair, HTC is afailed story. Go for other celphone companies who have experience in making such phones.
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