6.1 out of 10

HTC Touch Diamond

First seen: 11 february 2008

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User Score (689)

7.7
Expert Score (56)

7.0
Design (76)

6.8
Value for money (30)

5.1
Features (24)

6.1
Ease of use (35)

5.4
Performance (8)

4.6
Sound quality (51)

6.1

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Pros & Cons

stylish and pocket friendly, emoticon button on keyboard, slide out phone dialer, vibrant touch screen display, higher quality screen

cannot increase font size, small qwerty onscreen keyboard, sluggish performance at times, it is severely limited, so so phone reception

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

Release Date

First seen

11 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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Reviews of HTC Touch Diamond

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

Features 10

Ease of use 7

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
Best Phone that I have owned by far!!!

Reviewer: JAMBO1228, Phone Scoop
8 July 2009

Overall 10

I purchased this phone to replace my HTC touch 6800 and I could immediately see how more advanced this version is. This phone has more applications that are all very useful.Everything that I wanted my HTC 6800 to do this phone does.Since I have already owned a HTC touch type phone I was completely aware of the battery concern, but if you simply take advantage of the task manager and lower the back light level the battery will last much longer. Overall this is a great... Read more
Reviewer: David Cooke, phonedog.com
13 November 2009

Overall 8

Great features and the Elink technology is awesome! Easy to read and use. Nice addition of shortcut buttons. Durable feel. Bright clear screen and nice 2.0 megapixel camera. Simply a great 'dumb' phone with some smart phone features. Samsung made the right improvements to an innovative flip phone. Read more
"3 phones in 2 weeks."

Reviewer: CNET
4 December 2009

Overall 1

This phone is totally worthless. It can't stand up to daily use, which believe it or not is not my biggest problem with the phone. The thing is slower than molasses running uphill in winter. There is a good 2 sec delay between each screen when navigating though anything. The internet is so slow i don't even use it...it is easier for me to drive to the nearest library and log onto a computer than it is for me to try to access anything on my phone. When I have attepted to... Read more
A Slick WinMo Device?

Reviewer: Shopping.com
26 September 2008

Overall 8

My brother and I are gadget geeks. He currently owns an iPod Touch as well as the "old" HTC Touch. W Read more