HTC Touch Diamond Reviews

6.1 out of 10

HTC Touch Diamond

First seen: 8 february 2008

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User Score (675)

7.3
Expert Score (58)

7.1
Design (72)

6.9
Value for money (27)

5.3
Features (23)

6.0
Ease of use (31)

5.5
Performance (8)

4.7
Sound quality (50)

6.3

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Pros & Cons

optical mouse, great looking screen, quad band, nice feel, great amoled touchscreen

touch qwerty sucks, blackberry storm, battery life, freezes up, horrible dropped calls

Manufacturer's Description

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 steel 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 conn…

Specifications

Processor

Qualcomm® MSM7501A™ 528 MHz
Operating System

Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
Memory

ROM: 256 MB RAM: 288 MB DDR RAM Internal storage: 4 GB
Dimensions

4.0” X 2.1” X 0.6”
Weight

4.0 ounces (with battery)
Display

2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with VGA resolution
Network

Dual-band (800/1900Mhz), CDMA2000 1xEVDO Rev. A/1xRTT and IS-95A/B voice or data with up to 1.8 Mbps up-link and 3.1 Mbps down-link
Device Control

TouchFLO™ 3D Touch-sensitive navigation control Motion G-sensor
GPS

Internal GPS
Connectivity

Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for stereo wireless headsets Wi-Fi® : IEEE 802.11 b/g HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one)

Release Date

First seen

8 February 2008

WikiFreak Description

HTC Touch Diamond

The HTC Touch Diamond is a mobile phone that features a touch screen interface, with 2 cameras, a built-in radio as well as an internal memory of 4GB. It has the TouchFlo 3D that enables users to touch the interface to go through files of videos, photos and more. It also has built-in wifi and GPS module that enables navigation via its in-built GPS module.

Features

The HTC Touch Diamond features a 2.8" touch screen combined with a cover that is made of brused metail and faceted …

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HTC Touch Diamond

Features

The HTC Touch Diamond features a 2.8" touch screen combined with a cover that is made of brused metail and faceted edges. Its screen is also touch responsive interface. The camera that is integrated is 3.2 megapixel with auto focus and has a secondary VGA CMOS colour camera. Its internal memory is 4GB. Also included is a GPS module in built that enables users to navigate through destinations with full navigation including turn-by-turn. It also combines technology such as the TouchFlo 3D enabling users to interact and play as well as launch album artwork, snapshots of contacts, and videos with the touch of their fingers against the screen of the HTC Touch Diamond. Amongst its other technology is the HTC weather, that provides a weather forecast at home and abroad, and is constant. The HTC Touch Diamond operates on a Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system. Its ROM includes 256MB of memory. It is available in dual band and tri-band according to the country released. The additional features include Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, Wi-fi connectivity and HTC ExtUSB. A FM radio is also built-in with RDS. Its supported ringtone formats include MP3, AAC, AAC, WMA, WAV, and AMR-NB. Supports 40 polyphonic and standard MIDI formats. It is supplied with a rechargeable lithium ion or lithium ion polymer battery. The talktime on the HTC Touch Diamond is 270 for WCDMA and 330 minutes for GSM

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Expert Reviews

US 3G HTC Touch Diamond

Reviewer: MobileTechReview.com
13 September 2008

Overall 8

The third time around we still like this smartphone. In fact, it beats the original Euro Diamond and fixes our complaints with that firstborn. The Diamond is certainly the wave of the future, with its innovative and pleasurable user interface with the power of Windows Mobile underneath. HTC's software is well-designed, with finger-friendly targets, an enlarged Start Menu option and controllable finger-scrolling in places like contacts and the weather country/city picker.... Read more
HTC Touch Diamond CDMA Review

Reviewer: PhoneArena.com
27 April 2009

Overall 10

Design 10

Sound quality 10

The HTC Touch Diamond is currently the best smartphone we’ve used for Verizon, beating out the Samsung Omnia and BlackBerry Storm . The combination of TouchFlo3D interface, high quality VGA display, 3.2MP camera, and excellent call quality make it hard to beat. It’s powerful enough for the most hardcore business and techie users, but friendly enough that just about anyone can pick it up and go. Our only complaint is that the video player won’t play DivX and Xvid... Read more
HTC Touch Diamond (Sprint)

Reviewer: TechReviewSource.com
10 May 2009

Overall 8

HTC seems to always be on the cutting edge of cell phone technology and with the HTC Touch Diamond, it certainly lives up to its reputation. The new Sprint version of the Touch Diamond improves upon the unlocked version that was popular over the past summer. Improvements in the performance and design of the device have put it at the top of the wish lists for many gadget lovers. Sprint's CDMA version of the Touch Diamond will cost you $249 (after a two-year contract and... Read more
HTC Touch Diamond

Reviewer: pocketnow.com
8 January 2010

Overall 8

At first I expected to hate the new user interface on the Touch Diamond. It's actually not as annoying as I thought and has the potential for greatness after tweaking it a bit. The hardware buttons I thought would be completely unusable, but it turns out they're only somewhat unusable. As Horace Luke of HTC said in a Read more
HTC Touch Diamond (Sprint)

Reviewer: Windows A to Z!
10 January 2010

Overall 8

HTC seems to always be on the cutting edge of cell phone technology and with the HTC Touch Diamond, it certainly lives up to its reputation. The new Sprint version of the Touch Diamond improves upon the unlocked version that was popular over the past summer. Improvements in the performance and design of the device have put it at the top of the wish lists for many gadget lovers. Sprint's CDMA version of the Touch Diamond will cost you $249 (after a two-year contract and... Read more

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User Reviews

Vs. iPhone ...

Reviewer: Nasrin Mostafazadeh, HandCellPhone
11 April 2009

Overall 8

Sure that HTC and specially Touch Diamond,is a great pocket COMPUTER ... it almost has the great features of iPhone(no doubt not the inventor!! and just the copier) and even MORE capabilities and management systems ... hmm,don't forget to mention it's suitable weight and size(iPhone is somehow bigger than normal!!) Read more
"the best phone ever"

Reviewer: CNET
3 October 2009

Overall 10

i like it because it have all sensors many functions ant its the best on more ratings on Oct 3, 2009 i dont know what do you see bad at this phone is gratefoul have all sensors it the single phone with all features yes the battery in smll but the phone is very nice and usefoul.......if you don't know how to use it don't say its a bad phone ok?..... on Oct 3, 2009 i dont know what do you see bad at this phone is gratefoul have all sensors it the single phone with all... Read more
HTC Touch diamond

Reviewer: Dooyoo
13 October 2009

Overall 4

The HTC touch Diamond is the ,ost unuser friendly phones I've ever used and should be avoided!! Ended up getting rid of it and going back to my very old phone, even though on contract, Good points - Firstly, an attractive looking fascia, the whole phone is very sleek, the camera on it was excellent, screen quality is one of the best I think you'll see on a phone, and the games were quite good one using an accelerometer to bounce a little ball around a maze, quite... Read more
Reviewer: jane doe, phonedog.com
13 November 2009

Overall 10

I haven't heard anything about the battery life from my "expert", but that doesn't mean that it's not being fixed if there is a problem with it. I know someone who works for Palm that has been using it since it's creation and I am in close contact...I am AMAZED at this phone and it's capabilities. The "palm guy" said that he doesn't even use his home computer for e-mail, browsing etc anymore. I have seen this sucker in action for MONTHS and I am astounded every time I... Read more
Reviewer: Epinions
15 December 2009

Overall 8

I had the HTC previous version of this phone, which I was not happy with. Cracked the screen when I dropped it was reason enough to bargain with Sprint to get a new phone. After own this phone for over a year, I will offer my opinion for the "older" ... Read more