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Originally Posted by omikr0n
I currently own and use HTC S740. It's good to live in Europe, when it comes to smartphones.
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I live in Asia, which might sometimes be even better ;-)
Anyway - I got my Touch Diamond back in June, not long after they came out. I would have waited, but I went swimming in Phuket with my old phone - the HTC "Star Trek" (aka Dopod S300/QTek/iMate) flip-phone, which I had upgraded to WM6.
Both of my HTC phones put up with a lot of abuse - being dropped, rained on, sat on (in my back pocket), etc., and both always survived, until the swimming pool. Even then - after more than a minute underwater - the S300 flip-phone's external display still works, and it can receive calls. Just the main screen and keyboard died. Amazing.
The Touch Diamond took a little bit of getting used to, but since upgrading the ROM to 1.93, it's been very stable, the screen is excellent, and the 3G is fast (used it in Korea, and now tested out the limited 3G in Bangkok at the mall this past weekend).
Given the limitations of WM 6.1, HTC did an admirable job on the Diamond. I still think that, in another two years, high-end smartphones will be running on x86 processors, maybe the sucessor to "Moorestown" or something. I'm going to restrain myself from whining about WM7's ever-receding launch date now
So hey - Jason (?) - is there going to be "Android Thoughts" if Google's OS takes off? Just askin'
edit: I also had an original iPaq 3650, which I didn't know was actually HTC until I read Pony's post! (also had an iPaq 1910 later, no idea if that was HTC or not)