Gear65 #19 - HTC Touch Diamond2 (HD Video)

This week, we were fortunate enough to get our hands on the HTC Touch Diamond2, the first of HTC's next generation Windows Mobile phones. Ever since we played with the HTC Touch HD on episode 11, we've been looking forward to HTC's next few TouchFlo 3D smart phones, and the Touch Diamond2 certainly didn't disappoint.

They took all the great things from the HTC Touch HD, such as its much more stable TouchFlo 3D software, and its high-resolution display, and put it into the form factor of the Touch Diamond.

Watch as we show you the new improvements in the TouchFlo 3D software!

http://www.htc.com/www/product/touchdiamond2/overview.html
http://www.tech65.org

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• htc
• touch
• flo
• touchflo
• 3d
• windows
• mobile
• 6.1
• diamond2
• diamond

[Loostim]

Do you thing the 3.2 inch touchscreen is a little too small for viewing webpages? it just seems like alot of zooming

[65bits]

I saw your comment on both videos, sorry about that, I try to make weekends my rest day, but since you asked...

It doesn't make a difference if it's 3.2 (which honestly, is in the "big" range already) or 3.7, it's still small. Opera Mobile can resize the text buy double tap or by zooming into a paragraph. It re-arranges the text too so you can increase the font but not have to scroll too much.

Of course, on any smart phone it's best for mobile sites...

[KingAmirJR]

How is the sound in the HTC touch diamond 2?

[65bits]

Do you mean call or music? If call, we only had it for a few days, so we didn't do extensive tests in that area.

[TheHusky9]

how is google maps? Does this do streetview?

[65bits]

Hi there, I'm sorry but we didn't test Google maps on the Diamond2.

However, based on the Touch HD, which we did spend an extensive time with, the Google Maps would most probably be the standard Windows Mobile version of Google Maps, which does have street view.

[stelispav]

htc diamond 2 is too bad.the first one is way better

[hrinh0]

Unfortunately the touch diamond 2 is very bad!

after some weeks you will have dust inside the screen.... on the upper left side, where the volume buttons are.....

Good phone, but the dust problem destroys all (at the moment)

[weapondrift]

^_^ thanks :)

[65bits]

I'm aware of that too, but I do know that with the Touch HD (Which I've reviewed before), they managed to prefect the combination of the hardware and software to make a really lag-free device, and when I played with the Diamond2, it appears that they're doing the right thing by passing along that performance from the Touch HD to the Diamond2 as well.

I presume they will do the same with the Touch Pro2