05-04-2008, 06:49 AM
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HTC Diamond Specs Leaked: Nice!
"The first "official" photos and specs for the HTC Diamond have been leaked, complete with a 2.8-inch 640 x 480 pixel screen (twice the lines of the iPhone in smaller surface,) Windows Mobile 6.1 and 3G connectivity. Could this be the most important product of the year HTC said it would reveal in London on Tuesday? The fabled iPhone Killer? Addy will be liveblogging the event, so we will discover it then. It certainly seems like a good cellphone, judging from the specs."
VGA, WM 6.1 Pro, Wifi, Bluetooth, 3.2 Megapixel camera, FM radio, 4 GB internal memory, and perhaps most importantly: GSM (Until now we'd only seen rumors of a CDMA version). Not a bad looking device either. Perhaps I've found my annual "Jon's Device To Lust Over All Summer", unless HTC announces something even nicer on Tuesday! Anyone else want one?
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05-04-2008, 09:20 AM
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Nice specs. Looks like HTC's finally bringing out those "all-in-one Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, FM" devices to rival what's been coming out of E-TEN and i-mate over the past year or so.
Not sure I dig the rear of the device, but perhaps it looks better in person than in renderings.
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05-04-2008, 10:00 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Darius Wey
Not sure I dig the rear of the device, but perhaps it looks better in person than in renderings.
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Yeah, it looks like one of those Nokias, Prism, or something...
But otherwise it's a nice piece of hardware, although I wish it had a bigger screen.
P.S. I hope I won't have to take a second mortgage on my house to buy this thing. Looking on price pattern of HTC devices it could be quite expensive toy.
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05-04-2008, 10:57 AM
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Am I truly the only one seeing the Home and Back buttons which are always associated with WM Standard, and not Pro?
This may be a Pro (touchscreen) device, but then the picture's wrong.
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05-04-2008, 01:33 PM
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I bet this VGA device is just as slow as every other one that has been released. Until we get hardware accelerated graphics there is no way we can compete with the iPhone's resolution.
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05-04-2008, 02:19 PM
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WM 6.1 is still the achilles heel
For all the nice hardware this still has the same achilles heel as previous devices- Windows Mobile. There's nothing we really havent seen before in a WM device - the internal storage, VGA and orientation sensor have all been implemented in the Advantage. The competition - iphone, Android have finger-based UI's which (in the iphones case) have proven to be a hit with consumers. If all we're getting is WM 6.1 dressed up in new hardware (still with its poor browser, unintuitive interface) I see nothing to get excited about.
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05-04-2008, 03:03 PM
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Nice device, but I'm waiting for the Xperia.
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05-04-2008, 05:53 PM
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Thinker
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Man, I am torn. I am about ready to cast aside my eight-year investment in WM and go iPhone. If the latter just had a replaceable battery and a card slot, I'd have one already. I have no desire to pay extra for a serviceable browser, or put up with the slow performance on anything but a stripped-down software load. I just wish MS would get its act together.
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05-04-2008, 09:34 PM
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I'm just hoping for something reasonable, price-wise, in an unlocked or TMo form.
Unlikely, I'm sure.
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05-05-2008, 03:44 AM
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Looks good on paper but I would not be surprised if it will be another huge HTC dissapointment. I will probably still ditch HTC/WM for Iphone 2.
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