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Plemix.com Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Posts: 138 PM, WWW
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Diamond only got the internal 4GB memory and no slot to add more as far as I know. And it has got A2DP for sure.
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deepsme Joined: Mar 30, 2006 Posts: > 500 From: New Delhi, India PM |
The ROM of the touch diamond has leaked on the net...can get it here..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=394985
here, have a puff  |
Plemix.com Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Posts: 138 PM, WWW
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Unboxing mini review with photo shots:
Hot as pancakes, the HTC Touch Diamond is definitely in high demand. I (actually not just me, a whole bunch of guys) bagged for one to do photo shooting and reviews a week before the launch. And then on this Monday, I found colleagues are waiting for me to get back to work and ¡§escorted¡¨ me to my desk. I thought, what is going on? Then I saw the black diamond shaped box sitting on my desk, I know why I am suddenly getting popular this morning. Quickly before doing anything else, I unboxed the HTC diamond and arranged the photo shooting.
In the package it comes with a Battery, a charger, a design matched handsfree, a USB cable, two styluses, CD and Manual.
In the user interface, there are mainly three rows. The top are the icons to show you what is being active and the Windows Mobile drop down menu. The big middle application menu, and the bottom application launcher rolling menu. You can use your thumb to roll the bottom menu to find the right application. The reaction for jumping from one app to another app is not very fast. It is around 0.5 to 1 second wait.
The music application in action. The thumb flipping control is fast in here.
Other than the touchscreen, this is the main navigation. The four buttons located at the corners are clickable. The fun part of the navigation is the multi-directional round button. It is somewhat like the Nokia D-Pad, it is pressure sensitive. When circling around the outer rim, you can zoom and unzoom pictures. When holding the centre button, you can trigger the autofocus. Press to shoot the picture. The only problem I found is that, the central round button is a little bit too small. If you have got big thumb like some of my colleagues, you will press all the directional buttons and the central button all together. Then of course the HTC Diamond does not know what you wanted to do.
4GB internal memory. Well, you cannot add more. So you may need to do some house cleaning yourself.
3.2 mega pixel camera, but with no flash. We will show you the picture quality later on.
Stylus is located at the bottom with magnetic holding. Also the software is smart enough to know you will want to write something when you pull out the stylus and launch the writing application.
Windows mobile interface.
Windows Mobile 6.1 professional
Qualcomm 528MHz CPU and 640x480 65K colour resolution screen. The screen quality is actually very good.
There are three styles of virtual keypads for you to choose from. This one is phone style. It is so obvious.
For big thumbers, this is a bigger 20 keys Qwerty keyboard. Not sure you will like it or not.
At last the full Qwerty keyboard layout to choose from.
Camera in Action! When you touch and hold the round navigation button, the focus area will become green and beep you when focused. When ready, press to shoot.
Photo album interface. You can do the thumb flipping trick again to check the next or previous photo images. When clicked inside to view a picture, you can circle on the screen to zoom and hold to drag. This is the nice design of the Touch FLO 3D user interface.
Actual photo quality. Again, we just resized the picture to fit in with no retouch on them. You can see the quality of this indoor photo with no flash light support form the phone. Even the dents on the toys can be clearly seen.
Another shot. I have just shot similar stuff with the Nokia N78. The photo qualities are comparable. Of course the N78 has flash light support that is slightly better. For a 3.2 mega pixel camera in a pocket PC, the HTC Diamond is definitely a winner.
As I am so excited about reviewing the phone, I forgot to describe the physical impression. The HTC Touch Diamond is extremely thin and small. The diamond shaped back is actually quite flat to fit on any table. Also the tapped back makes it good to hold on hand without the squary edge hurting the plam. The 2.8 inches touchscreen is not big but the LCD quality is definitely very good. In general, the reaction of the new touch interface is quick, a lot quicker than the previous "Touches". I will say definitely a recommended Windows Mobile phone.
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bronxdude Joined: Sep 19, 2006 Posts: > 500 PM |
Thanks so much Plemix!
May I just ask how's the sound quality of this phone when using an earphone? |
Plemix.com Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Posts: 138 PM, WWW
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@bronoxdude,
Sorry, I have not tested the earphone quality back then. May be someone had tried that can help to find out.
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londonlad123 Joined: Jun 22, 2004 Posts: > 500 PM |
Phone arena has a very good review of this phone, going into touch flo 3d in detail.
Its a good phone but I don't believe that touch flo 3d will make the main tasks easier or say comparable to A200 se os. The calender is still the same WM as well as the sending text messages. When sending a text message, you don't have your recent list at hand as far as I can see. All touch flo does is allow you to read a text message the rest is still wm.
Anyone know whether touch flo 3d supports WM homescreen plugins on its 'home' screen when the clock is minimized?
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Bonovox Joined: Apr 13, 2008 Posts: > 500 PM |
I love the look of this i want one. Im loving the VGA screen and camera pictures look great too. Can just imagine what the camera view finder and pictures will look like on that screen. I prefer this to the Xperia that SE phone is way too big. I love the fact of everything it can do in such a small ish size. Does anyone know how much this will cost sim free. |
BobaFett Joined: Jan 06, 2004 Posts: > 500 From: Kamino (wish it would be Lund) PM, WWW
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another review
http://www.phonemag.com/htc-t[....]g-first-impressions-063095.php
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dazbradbury Joined: Nov 24, 2002 Posts: > 500 From: UK - Derby/London PM, WWW
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Well, I got my touch diamond yesterday, and so far I'm loving it. Beats the pants of all my previous SE P series phones. Handwriting recognition seems less intuitive, but then again, I have used SE's version since the p800!
If you have any specific questions which haven't been answered in all the reviews around, just give me a shout.
Comes recommended from me though!
Daz.
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Str1ker Joined: Aug 16, 2003 Posts: 206 From: Sussex PM |
Hi Daz,
congrats on the new phone. Is yours a sim free model, and if so does it come with tomtom or any other gps software?
Also, if a text message comes through or a call is missed, will the stand by screen show this, or do you have to press a botton to turn on the screen to look?
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themarques Joined: Jan 26, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: London, Tokyo, PM |
Thats got to be the biggest wall charger I have seen on a modern phone.
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Peio Joined: Sep 12, 2007 Posts: 152 From: Euskadi PM |
I've just ordered mine today, I hope I will love that phone as much as my previous K800 and P1i..! It's weird to leave SE but X1 seems so far away from now
What are the must-have softwares on WM6?
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dazbradbury Joined: Nov 24, 2002 Posts: > 500 From: UK - Derby/London PM, WWW
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On 2008-06-15 16:16:15, Str1ker wrote:
Hi Daz,
congrats on the new phone. Is yours a sim free model, and if so does it come with tomtom or any other gps software?
Also, if a text message comes through or a call is missed, will the stand by screen show this, or do you have to press a botton to turn on the screen to look?
Hey. Yes, it's sim free. It came with no GPS software, I installed tomtom mobile 6.0 and it seems to work fine. Am doing a longer distance journey today, so will see how well it works.
Regarding missed calls/sms, you have a number of options. If you want to save battery, the device can completely power down, you get notified of calls/txt by a vibrate/tone, then it will power down after whatever timeout you have set again.
I actually started to use S2U2, it handles the locking of my phone. I simply tap the power button to power down the device, then to check missed calls/texts, I just tap it again. The phone remains locked, but I can see the crucial info. Notably, the center wheel lights up if you do have a missed notification.
If you're less bothered about battery life, then you can have it never "power down", and always see call/sms status.
Hope that helps, Daz.
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dazbradbury Joined: Nov 24, 2002 Posts: > 500 From: UK - Derby/London PM, WWW
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On 2008-06-15 16:17:42, themarques wrote:
Thats got to be the biggest wall charger I have seen on a modern phone.
The wall charger is actually pretty sweet, has a nice HTC light up effect. But yeh, its slightly larger than the SE charger I suppose. Also, the cable isn't that long.
I've just ordered mine today, I hope I will love that phone as much as my previous K800 and P1i..! It's weird to leave SE but X1 seems so far away from now
What are the must-have softwares on WM6?
Has anyone tried the "tweaks" from xda-developpers to improve the phone performance?
Must have, well, I'd go over to xda-developers, they know more than I do. I've installed a few just to try them out atm.
The tweaks up the ram usage, but yes, they make TF3D much faster. TF3D does seem to have a memory leak though, I really hope it's fixed otherwise the uptime before a reboot is pretty poor. Nothing like my unstoppable P1i.
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Peio Joined: Sep 12, 2007 Posts: 152 From: Euskadi PM |
On 2008-06-17 15:57:00, dazbradbury wrote:
Must have, well, I'd go over to xda-developers, they know more than I do. I've installed a few just to try them out atm.
The tweaks up the ram usage, but yes, they make TF3D much faster. TF3D does seem to have a memory leak though, I really hope it's fixed otherwise the uptime before a reboot is pretty poor. Nothing like my unstoppable P1i.
Yeah, that forum is impressive, the guys are working faast
Bad news about the memory leak, but it will surely be fixed. It's hard to understand all that rom changing process and reg editing without having the phone, but it seems like those guys can do whatever they want on WM platform! |
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