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- * 5 megapixel color camera with auto focus for quality image and video capture.- * Enhanced TouchFLO 3D making the phone-using experience more instinctive.
- * 3.2-inch touch-sensitive screen with WVGA (480 X 800 pixel) resolution.
- * Zoom bar to precisely zoom in or out when viewing images, web pages or Google MapsTM.
- * microSDTM (SD 2.0 compatible) expansion slot for all your storage needs.
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By Browser (Oldham UK)
HTC Diamond 2.
You can't rely on the device to be working at the end of the day because the battery performance is poor and who expects to be able to keep a mobile device on charge every day. A fully charged battery may just about last one day if you just have the thing on stand by all day, but what's the point of having such a mobile device unless you are going to make a lot of use of it during the day in which case you end up fretting the battery is going to go flat when you may really need it and you are forced to stop using it to conserve the remaining battery life.
Although it has features such as the two camera's, google maps and GPS. In daylight you cannot see the screen so this defeats making good use of it outside, you have to hold it under some shade outdoors during the daytime to be able to make out anything on the screen. Even making a phone call in daylight is difficult because the keyboard is on the touch screen which you can't see. The camera's have no flash so this is not much use outdoors at night or anywhere not well lit and outdoors during the day you can't see what the camera is looking at because you can't see the display.
Often the touch screen doesn't respond in the expected way and you have to keep using the back button to undo a selection you didn't want and try again to select what you did want, but maybe this is because I fitted the clear plastic protection cover over the display, when this is worn out I intend to use the device without a cover but maybe then the screen gets scratched.
When using email, a browser or other Internet app if you can connect to a wifi it shouldn't use the phone network and thereby run up costs but sometimes even when you have a working wifi connection the device chooses without warning to make a data connection via the phone network. Ouch! You can disable the phone connection quite easily but then you aren't going to know if you've missed a call.
Some of the features are cool and maybe I need to install some more apps to appreciate it better but overall I wish I'd spent my money on something else because it ain't cheap.
By MARTIN O'CONNELL (Birmingham, England)
Like most of the other reviews for the Touch Diamond 2 I rate this phone highly when it comes to styling and features, but if you are intending to buy this phone there is one pretty major drawback you should be aware of - battery performance. Without using any of the features like GPS or Wireless this phone needs a recharge within 12 hours. In the early days of mobile phones when the size of the phone was a brick the power supply was in a shoulder bag. Well, the size of the phone may have shrunk but the need for the power supply in a shoulder bag remains. This phone uses battery power like a Land Rover drinks petrol.
I challenged HTC about why the battery performance was so bad and why I don't get anything like it's quoted standby figures and I was told it was "normal" for this type of phone and the Android phones are the same.
Battery performance aside this is a fantastic phone and you won't be disappointed - as long as you don't venture too far from a main power outlet so remember to pack a power cable in your bag and car!!
By C. Wright (England, UK)
The phone itself is good, not absolutely amazing, but good. Windows Mobile 6.1 however has its problems and looks pretty ugly. The TouchFlo 3D interface that covers a lot of the windows mobile interface looks nice but sometimes can be a little bit slow. This was my first smart phone and also my first touch screen phone so its taking quite a bit of getting used to - its nice to have features like outlook email on it but to be honest I am finding that there is not much that I want to do on it that I couldnt do on any 'normal' phone.
By Rough Diamond (UK)
Fantastic phone. Everything I need and some! Very easy to use and Touch Flo is a great front-end for Windows Mobile 6.1. Works fine with TomTom 7 using the internal GPS receiver.
Lot's of on-phone memory for apps and utilities, coupled with a fast processor.
Take a look at spb Mobile Shell 3, as it's an even better front-end than Touch Flo - I've added a copy onto my Diamond 2 and it makes it into a real iPhone beater.
This has replaced my iPaq HX4700 and Nokia N73 and is better than both. Thoroughly recommended.
By DangermouseZilla (Doncaster, Yorkshire, UK.)
I don't like Windows as an operating system, not on a PC, and not on a phone. But so far I've found that the only phones which meet with my requirements have been Windows based mobiles - though that may well change with the meteoric rise of both the i-Phone and the impressive Android operating system.
After using the first MDA Diamond for a year, it was time for a change. I had a brief spell with a Samsung Tocco but realised that I missed many of the functions of the MDA and naturally decided on the second generation of the Diamond. Lesser smartphones collapse under the weight of the cumbersome operating system, but the MDA Diamond II transcends it by hiding it behind it's own fancy user interface - TouchFlo 3D.
TouchFlo worked well on the original Diamond, but it felt bolted on and I found that after a while it stuttered a bit and lost responsiveness. The Diamond II must have some memory improvements or some pretty nifty ways to improve efficiency because TouchFlo maintains a good level of responsiveness and as well as cutting the mustard in terms of functionality - it looks pretty sexy. Sliding your grubby digits across the screen to create fingerprints on the glossy exterior never looked so good as the 3D menus smoothly animate and scroll at the pace you want them to. You don't have to use the stylus anymore as the significantly bigger screen with improve resolution (WVGA rather than plain old VGA) means you have bigger buttons and wider menu bars - of course the stylus is still there but you won't need to bring it out anywhere near so frequently.
My main problems with the first Diamond were it's lag in responsiveness and the disappointing way it overlooked it's self orientating screen. Well, as I've already mentioned - the second version of this phone is quicker and although it does start to slow down once several applications are active simultaneously, it's not as noticeable and it handles more before it gets to that stage. The first MDA also had an impressive rotating display - but it was woefully underused, in fact it was quite possible to own the phone for a year and never even realise it had the functionality! This has been addressed in version two though and now when composing e-mails or text messages I can hold the phone 'landscape' and the screen rotates. This gives you a larger on-screen keyboard and whereas texting whilst on the bus, or as a passenger in a car was a nightmare before as any little movement had you tapping the wrong key with your stylus - now you can type away with ease! That's a big bonus for me and was the main reason I considered this phone over one with a dedicated QWERTY keyboard.
The addition of a MicroSD card slot is a welcome feature. After owning several MDA smartphones I simply assumed that the original Diamond would accommodate a memory card and took the phone to pieces looking for the slot before it dawned on me that there was nowhere to slot my 2 Gig beasty (2 gig was pretty impressive then!). Now I can enjoy all my media files on the move by popping them all on a MicroSD card, and it can be swapped between devices when necessary. I actually use a MAC for home use and find it far easier to drag and drop files to a memory card rather than beaming via bluetooth or linking up via cable.
I do however use a cable when I'm syncing with my works laptop. Synchronising with Outlook is where I have to reluctantly admit that Windows excels; all my contacts were on Outlook and after connecting the cable and using ActiveSync I had all those contacts on my new phone within a few minutes. My appointments and reminders were all present and correct too. Job done!
In a nutshell: The MDA Diamond was a very good phone, and instead of making any radical changes HTC have tweaked it and worked on the niggles to come up with a faster newer model. If you already have a Diamond and move to a Diamond II then the small changes will make a big difference. For me it's like a totally different phone as I'm now happy to use TouchFlo, which means the phone looks and handles very differently - and at times I even forget that Windows is on there! Surely it's only a matter of time before HTC release a phone with their own TouchFlo inspired Operating System.
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