HTC Diamond2 Impressions
The HTC Diamond2 just landed on my doorstep after this week’s launch, and now that I’ve pulled it out of the box, I thought I’d share my initial impressions with you.
First of all, the hardware is solid. I don’t care what anyone else says – HTC make some real quality handsets. The plastic back, which is a fingerprint magnet, b the way, plays off the metal front of the phone nicely.
But then you hit the software. And even though HTC’s TouchFlo interface covers some of Windows Mobile 6.1, it’s still there. The phone still has a stylus. It’s still a resistive touchscreen, so even though TouchFlo’s bigger buttons make using your finger easier, it’s still way too easy for the button to not respond or for you to press the wrong button with your finger.
Apparently people who buy the Diamond2 and Pro2 handsets will get a free upgrade to the more finger-friendly Windows Mobile 6.5 OS, but there’s still a chance that the telcos will block that, which would be an absolute disaster on their part.
Of course, I’ve only been playing with the phone for about an hour, so there is the slight possibility that I’ll grow to love it, but at the moment I’m finding myself frustrated at every turn…
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Nick i’m waiting for the hero to come out. Just ordered my iPhone 3GS but think I will replace it with the new Hero once it comes out. What do you think?
That’s why I am really looking forward to the Hero. The same great HTC build quality and software additions but rather than being based on WinMo it’s got a cute little robot hiding inside.
Come on guys, give this to a HTC lover to review. Seen too many Iphone 3GS being reviewed by iphone owners, bout time you gave HTC phones to someone like me who has been using a HTC phone for over 7 years
I wish HTC put more effort into software, such as drivers etc FFS
What do you guys do with all the old review phones? Just asking cos mine broke last week :P
Sadly, they all go back to the company that supplied them…
If you ask me, Microsoft is retarded!
They controled all smartphones and they did a shit job because there was no competition. Now there is, and they’re still shit. Not just is WinMo not finger friendly, its also buggy and lacks some common features that you would expect from a cheap $70 phone. For example if you send a text and there is no reception the phone will just say it couldn’t be sent and give up. You have to manually wait til there is reception again to send it. It won’t automatically do this. And the alarm doesn’t work for me.
I read all this stuff about WinMo being crap, but I kinda ignored it cause I figured how bad could it be? Microsoft is a big company, everyone just likes to hate on them. But no, not long after I bought my HTC Diamond did I realize I had made a mistake.
I can’t wait until Android rules the smartphone world
:)
WinMo has always been the bain of the smartphone owner. Look at JASJAM’s and the like, great hardware all the issues are with the OS.. active sync and the OS are barely functional.
Smartphone makers rarely customise the OS, so of MS$$ does not support / innovate new features then smartphone owners are generally left with whatever MS$$ version the phone vendor / oem (re)released for that particular model.
The only hope is for something like android where the OS developer is driven to innovate, not just churn out barely modified releases of the same old tired OS, in order to minimise change and/or expense.