HTC Touch Diamond 2

The HTC Touch Diamond 2 is a smartphone that sports a sleek, elegant design. It features a Push Internet function and other people centric communication technology as well as intuitive controls. Other than that, it also arranges your conversations according to people and not just by how you speak with them. A view of your contact’s information will allow you to see a history of your conversation in whatever form it took place with all your interactions neatly laid out for viewing and follow-up in a tree of communication with that person. Not only that, even the display on the HTC Touch Diamond 2 is stretched to its very limits, while still maintaining the compact size of the phone, allowing you to enjoy videos, websites, photos and any other images on the ultra sharp wide screen display.

Specifications
The HTC Touch Diamond 2 measures 107.85 mm x 53.1 mm x 13.7 mm (H x W x D) and weighs approximately 117.5 grams including the battery that is provided with the phone. It runs on a Qualcomm MSM 7200A 528 MHz processor and a Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard operating system. As for its internal memory, it has a capacity of 512 MB ROM and 288 MB RAM. There is also a TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 480 x 800 WVGA resolution. The display measures 3.2 inches when measured diagonally. The HTC Touch Diamond 2 supports networks including HSDPA/ WCDMA 900/ 2100 (Europe/ Asia) 900/ 2100 MHz of up to 2 Mbps up-link speed and 7.2 Mbps down-link speed, as well as quad band GSM/ GPRS/ EDGE 850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900 MHz (Europe/ Asia). Device control comes in the form of HTC TouchFLO and a zoom bar. Not only that, the HTC Touch Diamond 2 also has a built-in internal GPS antenna. In terms of connectivity, the HTC Touch Diamond 2 features Bluetooth 2.0 with enhanced data rate and A2DP for wireless stereo headsets, Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g and HTC Ext USB (11-pin mini USB 2.0 and audio jack in one). In addition to that, the HTC Touch Diamond 2 also has a 5 mega pixel colour camera with auto focus function as well as a second camera located on its front face that is a VGA CMOS colour camera. It can also perform audio and video playbacks via its pre-loaded Windows Media Player 10. Supported audio formats include AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, QCP, MP3, WMA, WAV and MIDI while supported video formats include WMV, ASF, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, M4V and AVI. The HTC Touch Diamond 2 runs on a rechargeable Lithium-ion battery that has a capacity of 1100 mAh. The battery is capable of providing a battery life that measures up to 300 minutes of talk time on WCDMA networks, or up to 340 minutes of talk time on GSM networks. Alternatively, the HTC Touch Diamond 2 can last up to 500 hours when put on standby mode on WCDMA networks and up to 360 hours on standby for GSM networks. Not only that, it can also provide up to 150 minutes of video call time. For expansion options, the HTC Touch Diamond 2 comes with an expansion slot for microSD memory cards that are SD 2.0 compatible. Not only that, the HTC Touch Diamond 2 comes with an AC adapter that has a voltage range/ frequency of 100 ~ 240 V AC, 50/ 60 Hz and DC output of 5V and 1A. Other special features include FM radio function and G-sensor.

Reviews

“At MWC, the PeopleCentric announcement felt like HTC’s answer to Palm’s Synergy: a more connected way of handling information on a mobile device. If we’re honest, it can’t quite live up to how Palm webOS manages data, but it’s the best performing data management system on a Windows Mobile device we’ve seen. The few consistency flaws we’ve run across – which could well be fixed in production firmware – haven’t undermined how useful it can be to isolate conversations on a contact-by-contact basis, and if you’ve been looking for an excuse to tidy up your address book then this is it.” (SlashGear, 2009)

“So should you buy it ?, if your a Windows Mobile lover and don’t input lots of text this is the crème de la crème of keyboardless Windows phones, if you do input lots of text it may be wiser to wait for the Touch Pro2 which should be here in a few months. Sure it has a few flaws, like the accelerometer only works in a few applications, a better music and video player should have been included and that 3.5mm headset jack, the biggest flaw though is Windows Mobile 6.1, its just not good enough for this top end hardware and this is the kicker, HTC have confirmed that this device will get an update to Windows Mobile 6.5 and because of that, this device should be very appealing.” (MobileTechAddicts, 2009)

“On its own, the Diamond2 is a true winner. It’s refined in every way that a phone should be refined, and it represents the best hardware and software interplay that we have yet to see on a Windows Mobile device. The increased screen sensitivity, focus on finger-friendliness, and many TouchFLO 3D enhancements make the Diamond2 a true joy to use.” (PocketNow, 2009)