HTC’s flagship smartphone, the Touch Diamond, has been unveiled, and it’s quite the powerhouse. Running Windows Mobile 6.1 under HTC’s own reworked TouchFLO 3D GUI, the VGA touchscreen smartphone packs a 528MHz Qualcomm processor, 7.2Mbps HSDPA/HSUPA, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 and GPS. However the Touch Diamond is also impressively compact and light: at 110g and 102 x 51 x 11.33mm it’s smaller and more pocket-friendly than many of its rivals.
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The Touch Diamond borrows some of Apple’s design wizardry with its CoverFlow-style 3D navigation of contacts, video, music and photos; there’s also a custom YouTube app which HTC are describing as “the best mobile YouTube experience so far.” Opera 9 is also drafted in to make the Touch Diamond an ideal mobile internet device too; dynamic zoom on the high-resolution 640 x 480 display is the work of a simple tap, or there’s a touch-sensitive scrollwheel built into the D-pad for more direct control. Both portrait and landscape orientations are supported, flicked between via the Touch Diamond’s accelerometer.
A 3.2-megapixel main camera with autofocus and VGA front camera for video calls ensure the Touch Diamond has impressive media capabilities, and all that can be stored on the 4GB of user memory. That’s aside from the 256MB ROM and 192MB RAM. Battery life is rated at up to 270/330 minutes talktime for WCDMA/GSM or up to 396/285hrs standby for WCDMA/GSM from the 900mAh power-pack.
Europe and Asia will get the Touch Diamond in June, while the rest of the world will have to wait until later on in the year before they see the handset.
The Touch Accessories store is the one stop shop for everything HTC accessories. Make sure to drop by and check it out when you get your very own HTC Touch Diamond.