By: Wayne Schulz
Thanks for the first impressions. I like the looks of this but your comments are pretty much what I was expecting.
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By: Doug Goldring
Nice job, Mitchell. I have been fantasizing about this one for a while. Sorry to hear that it is (once again for HTC) not up to snuff in certain areas. Doug
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By: kevinnugent
Mitchell, I had the same impressions and results as you. eBay was my friend. Hurry up with my iPhone 3G, Steve!
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By: TrvlngDrew
Hi Mitchell, Have you had a chance yet to install the performance upgrade,curious to see your impressions after that..I had a chance to play with one a couple of weeks ago and try to see if they have...
View ArticleBy: Mitchell Oke
My Diamond is loaded with the latest ROM, which apparently improved performance, in which case I’m very glad never to have used the previous version.The touch wheel functionality seems to be very...
View ArticleBy: Mickey
Glad to see another HTC Diamond review that is honest about issues http://tinyurl.com/6ywmq5
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[...] Oke form GearDiary (US based) posted his latest first hands-on experience on the HTC Touch Diamond loaded with the latest ROM (according to Mitchell without showing actually [...]
View ArticleBy: Christopher Spera
For the cost of this device, I’m very disappointed with the performance it delivers. This is meant to compete DIRECTLY with Apple/AT&T’s iPhone and iPhone 3G. Its not going to do well unless there...
View ArticleBy: Christopher Gavula
It’s interesting. Despite the higher-res VGA screen, the Diamond only has a 65K (16 bit) color depth as opposed to the iPhon’es 24bit (over 1 million colors) color depth. Why does this matter? It’s...
View ArticleBy: dckiwi
I have re-read this about five times and still can’t believe what I am reading: “I disconnected the Diamond from it’s charger at 6:30am, and by 12pm … I had the low battery warning indicator showing in...
View ArticleBy: Insp_Gadget
Very curious. Was this first impression review from in the U.S. or Europe? Considering that the only Touch Diamond currently available is for European/Asian markets, and the 3G bands for it don’t work...
View ArticleBy: Insp_Gadget
Indeed, it has a 900mAh battery, but if it was searching for signal the whole time, any size battery would die under those conditions.
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Okay, I just re-read the post and see that Mitchell mentions Telstra (an Australian provider). I’m not positive, but I believe their 3G operates in the 850MHz band, which is not compatible the the...
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Yes the battery is 900mAh, which isn’t very big, especially compare to some Windows Mobile devices. It is very small though…Insp_Gadget, we have both 2100Mhz and 850Mhz 3G here (stupid carriers….)....
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[...] which for network reasons I opted to have sent to Mitchell in Australia. The Diamond version he received and reviewed was at first glance nearly identical to the Sprint version I’ll be covering...
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