HTC Touch Diamond Review ? This Diamond is Definitely Not in the Rough
Do you ever have days where you just love your job? I’ve
appointed myself Technical Review Guru on the Prowl and I have to admit I’ve
also had days where the latest mobile phone I was putting through its paces was
doing nothing much besides boring me to tears. Useful, functional, does what
the tin says ? and boring.
And then I have days where I get to review a piece of
machinery that has my cynical eyebrow climbing over hyped up advertising words
like “exhilarating design? but still has me downright, well ? exhilarated to be
playing with. And so it goes with the HTC Touch Diamond.
I’m a bit of a soft touch myself for a highly visual
design ethic and that was definitely the first thing that leapt out at me about
the HTC Touch Diamond. To my geeky eye it was total candy. The 2.8 inch touch
screen is framed by brushed metal and features faceted edges, and while I
wouldn’t quite call it “stunning?, it is pretty impressive. At the risk of
outing myself as a total geek, the shape of the facets reminded me for some
reason of the Star Trek Enterprise. Embarrassing - but true.
I guess its also a bad sign of how much of a geek I really
am because I’m also highly attracted to cool. I didn’t feel the least bit
Trekkie handling the HTC Touch Diamond and instead just loved the slick
coolness factor of it.
And in true geek fashion ? functionality was a must - and
this baby has it in spades. For starters, the high speed internet access is
HSDPA. That means that accessing the internet is almost fast enough to have a
broadband like feel to it. I was amazed at how easily I was able to even watch
videos online, with an ease and a speed that rivaled my highly belled and
whistled PC at home.
The built in camera is a perfectly usable 3.2 mega pixels,
even for the fairly advanced digital photo enthusiast. The camera is entirely
auto focused, which may be a plus for some and a drawback for others, since it
doesn’t allow for any kind of a manual override.
The 4 gigabytes of onboard storage space are a personal
must in my complicated world. That means that I won’t be spending more time and
energy that I should be managing my data, files, music, photos and videos. The
extra elbow room for storage instead means that I’ll be managing my goals and
objectives and using the phone to meet them. That’s a bare level minimum demand
that I personally have for the technology that I use; it has to be a partner in
producing my goals.
The touch screen itself brags that it has 4 times the
resolution of most screens, and I did find it lovely to use and to look at.
During testing the screen proved to be sensitive and I do find that the touch
responsive screens help me to work more efficiently.
I have some more testing to do , but so far I can say that
this phone is worth a closer look.
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