Hands-On with the HTC Touch Diamond (Verdict: Slightly Sluggish, But Has Nice UI Touches)
The HTC Touch Diamond—iPhone Killer or just another Windows Mobile device? It kinda reminds me of a mini-iPhone. A couple of nice design features: the animated weather display (you can have up to six places’ weather forecast bookmarked) makes me think of the widget on my MacBook; the click-wheel in miniature that lets you zoom in on the screen; and there’s a very nifty little feature that automatically switches the phone onto silent mode when you lie it on its front. UI was much more attractive than I was expecting, but the touchscreen takes quite a bit of getting used to: it’s sluggish to the touch, compared to the hot-butterish iPhone, but the HTC rep assured me that it’s not a final version of the software, and everything should have been ironed out by the time of the European and Asian launches next month. So, to answer my questions, No, and No.
The HTC Touch Diamond—iPhone Killer or just another Windows Mobile device? It kinda reminds me of a mini-iPhone. A couple of nice design features: the animated weather display (you can have up to six places’ weather forecast bookmarked) makes me think of the widget on my MacBook; the click-wheel in miniature that lets you zoom in on the screen; and there’s a very nifty little feature that automatically switches the phone onto silent mode when you lie it on its front. UI was much more attractive than I was expecting, but the touchscreen takes quite a bit of getting used to: it’s sluggish to the touch, compared to the hot-butterish iPhone, but the HTC rep assured me that it’s not a final version of the software, and everything should have been ironed out by the time of the European and Asian launches next month. So, to answer my questions, No, and No.
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the sluggishness worrys me.
htc seems to have a issue with giving a phone more than it actually needs, which is why the iphone succeeds with no lag. its because it has more ram and more processor than it needs and can afford to have mem leaks etc, whereas htc seem to be more abt “give it what it needs and only that”
if they get rid of the sluggish issue, i’ll concider it. provided it also has multi touch. im not a fan boy , so ill throw my money at whatever is the better product, but right now it seems like the iphone. hopefully there will be more choices soon such as this phone!
Why is everyone so damn fixated on the iphone? its crap! it lacks features, cant even grab ya contacts from SIM card, no 3G, crap media player, terrible sound quality, crappy OS that does not allow the installation of 98% of decent 3rd party software and most of all NO GPS!
I had one for 2 weeks and sold the piece of crap.
Almost any PDA on the market is an iphone killer. Hell my ETEN Glofiish X500 is more sophisticated than an crappy iphone and looks better too and it was released months before the iphone.
Thumbs up to HTC. Put iphone in its place and that’s on the shelf gathering dust.
HTC Touch Diamond
I bought one last week.. and.. heres what I concluded
- movement .. wothless.. lags at allmost everything
- Its not even near of real time response … and.. with touch flow activated ..its even slower..
- Battery life …pfff … 3 hours max on GPS , 5-6 MAX on player, no special apps open.. 2 days .. in a normal phone function.
- Charging time over 5 hours
Its not what I expected .. ( bought in Spain – Vodafone)