HTC Touch Diamond is an ultimate working tool disguised as a designer mobile. A large, clear touch-screen, which you can read e-mail at without squinting, is one of the things you will appreciate. In addition, the mobile phone is one of the first which has the operating system Windows Mobile 6.1, which gives you a pocket version of Word, Excel, Outlook and PDF files show.

There is nothing to say to that Touch Diamond is launched as “The IPhone Killer”, for it is impossible not to compare. Touch Diamond is, however, leading in several Parameters, such as its smaller size, lighter weight which is 110g and its very elegant design. At the same time, there is a small control panel with “real buttons” at the bottom, which gives you a greater level of safety of navigation, if you’re not familiar with touch screens. And then of course mobile phone supports MMS and Java.

The mobile phone has a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus and video capability, and your images are razor sharp on the 2.8 inch screen with 4 times as many pixels as most phones. The phone also supports mp4 and mp3 files of almost all kind. It has Wi-Fi, GPS, a lightning fast Internet with Turbo 3G (HSDPA) and 4 GB of memory – that is just some of what you get with Touch Diamond. The music comes from radio or mp3/mp4.

But it is equally the many smaller features that give a unique experience with Touch Diamond, for example, the vibrating TouchFLO menu system that makes it easy to scroll through menus with a fingertip, the always updated graphical weather, and the clock on the start screen , Who “browse” every minute.

The phone has a standby time up to 285 hours, if you are on the Internet the battery time will of course be lowered. You can also talk for around 5 hours and 30 minutes and the battery time will also be lowered. This phone also has Bluetooth, calender, radio,pocket Internet Explorer and a 3 megapixel camera.

Compared with the HTC touch pro I would prefer the Diamond because its so much thinner and I don’t need the slide-out keyboard (which the Pro version has). I prefer the “normal” phone keyboard.

By: Christian Emil Johansen