HTC Touch Diamond review

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July 2, 2009

Posted by: calerouxz

"Best thing ever"

What I like:

interface, screen, style

What I don't like:

speed, windows OS

Review:

Well...I have been using the diamond for about 5 months...And I recently upgraded to windows mobile 6.2. I want to start off by going through the windows OS 6.1, witch is the default version it comes with. So....As the review on CNet said, the touch screen is quite bad, but it really is not...After testing the screen of both Win OS 6.5 and 6.1, I know what im talking about. The fact that windows mobile is not made for touch phones is a huge disadvantage for HTC, since this phone is very good. The OS its currently running is slow, and frustrating to use (6.1)...And most of the icons are not made for fingers, and personally I hate to use the stylus. The touch flo 3D interface is quite nice, but if they would have actually customized the whole windows mobile OS it would be better. Now going to windows mobile 6.5...Windows mobile 6.5 does not accept HTC's TouchFlo 3D, witch is a shame, since I really liked it. In the other hand, windows gave this version a new home screen, a new "start" menu. Windows mobile 6.5 is all this phone needed, because Windows mobile v6.5 was build to be finger-friendly, even though it is still not as fast as the iphone OS, but its comming closer. 6.5 has even bigger icons, a new way of placing them, and on top of that is has many "style" updates. As I mentioned before, people have said that HTC Diamond's screen is bad and mediocre, however, seeing how the phone and the keyboard works, I dont think that. However... What they did say that was true is that the keyboard does sometimes cover where you want to type. In windows mobile 6.5 everything is faster. There are some bugs in the recent calls list, where when you reach a certain point while scrolling through, it will suddenly select more than one call at a time, although its identifiable by seeing the letters. Going back to the phone...It has a 3.2 mpx camera, witch is not as bad as some other phone's, and I think its pretty good for a phone the size of the diamond. It has a 4GB internal memory, and a 130MB main memory. Unfortunately I cant say this is very good, since if you place music on your Internal Memory, then it will not appear in windows media music library, so you have to go into the internal memory and select from there what you want to play, and you cant create a play list, I would have wanted the the internal memory would be the main memory, since the main memory is only 130MB, it can be filled up quite easy. Even in windows mobile 6.5 you might still have to use the stylus, but not as much as the original 6.1.
While it IS a very nice looking phone, it IS a fingerprint magnet, its very glossy. The back of the phone is shaped up to look as cut diamond.
The speakers of the phone are not as good I'd wish, as they pack a lot of distortion, and also have low volume. You do have to use the proprietary mini USB jack for your earphones, fortunately, these are packed in the box with your phone. You can also use a bluetooth earphone set, but that will cost you something like an extra 10-60$.
This phone has 3G, Wi-Fi, witch is good for such a little phone. If you cant this phone, then buy it for your need: Call...Then you could get an Ipod touch, such as I do to store most of my appointments, and more applications.
I really recommend this phone, but if you do buy it, try to get it up to windows mobile v6.5. There are still many bugs in this version of windows, but it will greatly improve the usage of this phone.