 Check out the awesome review of the new HTC Touch Diamond over at coolsmartphone.com.
Gears provides a full on 7 day video review, showing pretty much everything you can image about the phone. It looks pretty awesome - we get our hands on one tomorrow so stay tuned!
Touch Diamond Info:
Featuring a sharp 2.8-inch touch screen housed within a stunning formation of
brushed steel and flawless faceted edges, the HTC Touch Diamond is as beautiful
to behold as it is to use.
With HTC’s vibrant touch-responsive user
interface, TouchFLO™ 3D, and ultra-fast HSDPA internet connectivity… the HTC
Touch Diamond offers a rich online experience to rival a notebook computer,
allowing you to interact with Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia as freely as you
would with a broadband connection. Your contacts, favourite music, videos and
photos are no longer an uninspired line of text. With TouchFLO 3D, album
artwork, video stills and snapshots of your friends’ and family’s faces are
brought to life for you to interact, play and launch at your fingertips.
A 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera will help you capture the perfect
moment in style and with a massive 4GB of internal storage you can keep all the
files you need. The integrated ultra-sensitive GPS will help you find your
destination as quickly and efficiently as a dedicated satellite navigation unit.
Style and substance in a phone are no longer mutually exclusive. The HTC
Touch Diamond has arrived. Re-defining the perception of advanced mobile phones…
the HTC Touch Diamond™ signals a giant leap forward in combining hi-tech prowess
with intuitive usability and exhilarating design. Featuring a sharp 2.8-inch
touch screen housed within a stunning formation of brushed steel and flawless
faceted edges, the HTC Touch Diamond is as beautiful to behold as it is to use.
With HTC’s vibrant touch-responsive user interface, TouchFLO™ 3D, and ultra-fast
HSDPA internet connectivity… the HTC Touch Diamond offers a rich online
experience to rival a notebook computer, allowing you to interact with Google,
YouTube, and Wikipedia as freely as you would with a broadband connection.
Your contacts, favourite music, videos and photos are no longer an
uninspired line of text. With TouchFLO 3D, album artwork, video stills and
snapshots of your friends’ and family’s faces are brought to life for you to
interact, play and launch at your fingertips. A 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera
will help you capture the perfect moment in style and with a massive 4GB of
internal storage you can keep all the files you need. The integrated
ultra-sensitive GPS will help you find your destination as quickly and
efficiently as a dedicated satellite navigation unit.
Style and
substance in a phone are no longer mutually exclusive. The HTC Touch Diamond has
arrived.
Re-defining the perception of advanced mobile phones… the HTC
Touch Diamond™ signals a giant leap forward in combining hi-tech prowess with
intuitive usability and exhilarating design.
Featuring a sharp 2.8-inch
touch screen housed within a stunning formation of brushed steel and flawless
faceted edges, the HTC Touch Diamond is as beautiful to behold as it is to use.
With HTC’s vibrant touch-responsive user interface, TouchFLO™ 3D, and
ultra-fast HSDPA internet connectivity… the HTC Touch Diamond offers a rich
online experience to rival a notebook computer, allowing you to interact with
Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia as freely as you would with a broadband
connection.
Your contacts, favourite music, videos and photos are no
longer an uninspired line of text. With TouchFLO 3D, album artwork, video stills
and snapshots of your friends’ and family’s faces are brought to life for you to
interact, play and launch at your fingertips.
A 3.2 megapixel auto-focus
camera will help you capture the perfect moment in style and with a massive 4GB
of internal storage you can keep all the files you need. The integrated
ultra-sensitive GPS will help you find your destination as quickly and
efficiently as a dedicated satellite navigation unit.
Style and
substance in a phone are no longer mutually exclusive. The HTC Touch Diamond has
arrived.
Highlights
- 2.8-inch touch screen, with four times the
pixels of most phones.
- Vibrant TouchFLO 3D user interface, responding
perfectly to your finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, browsing the
web, and launching media… all vividly displayed as photos and artwork powered by
the 3D graphics processor.
- HTC Weather - providing a constant view of
weather at home and abroad.
- Surf and download at broadband speed with
HSDPA internet connectivity.
- 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera for quality
stills
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 Ok, this is interesting, at Macworld (interesting in itself!) they report Apple iPhone to exceed Windows Mobile by 2008? - a survey shows Apple may surpass Windows Mobile marketshare by end of 2008.
Of course, this is interesting, however, surely the iPhone, which by all accounts is NOT a smartphone by definition, but an MP3 player and phone wrapped up by apple, isn't in the same market as the Windows Mobile platform? What do you think?
The article reads:
Apple may grab as much as 6 per cent of the US mobile phone market in the next year – giving it a slightly stronger footprint in the market than rival Microsoft, a report claims.
Researchers at Markitecture surveyed 1,300 mobile phone users across the US to reach its projected figures. It found that 77 per cent of those spoken with to be at least slightly familiar with the iPhone.
It also noted that Apple has achieved positive first impressions of the product, finding that the more a consumer knew about the device, the more favorable their impression of the iPhone actually was.
In fact, 83 per cent of those very familiar with the device had an excellent or very good impression of the product.
These positive reactions translate into strong sales: 6 per cent of those surveyed described themselves as likely to buy an iPhone in the next year. Cost and users being on a different network than Apple's chosen partner in the US, AT&T, were cited as hurdles to buying an iPhone.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently attempted to create his own 'reality distortion field' when he slammed the iPhone last week.
There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share, Ballmer said. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60 per cent or 70 per cent or 80 per cent of them, than I would to have 2 per cent or 3 per cent, which is what Apple might get.
Microsoft holds just 5.6 per cent of the mobile phone market with its Windows Mobile software – but the Markitecture survey shows Apple could exceed that share within a year of the release of the iPhone.
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