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| Screen Quality | 9.5/10  |
|---|---|
| Battery Life | 6.3/10 |
| Features | 10/10 |
| Reception | 8.3/10 |
| Style | 10/10 |
| Value for Money | 8/10 |
| Overall rating | 8.3/10 |
| HTC Touch Diamond |  | £399.99 Total Price |
| HTC HTC Touch Diamond - Touch Diamond 99HEJ036-00 |  | £439.39 Total Price |
Full review by
happyribbed
on 24th Sep 2008
User Rating : 4
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Good Points: Look, Graphics, Size, Weight
Bad Points: Operating System, Battery Life
General comments: When I saw the phone and read about the features (WiFi, GPS ready, 3.5G,...) I thought that is my phone.The drama started unpacking it and getting started. I don't know why most companies nowadays don't give their customers a printed user menu anymore, especially considering the high price tag for this unit. The printed short guide is surely not good enough and within minutes you see yourself starting up the computer to read through the pdf user guide. And that is not well written, so you start printing the guide out.Having the phone now for about two months I decided to buy a new phone. This HTC diamond just annoys me and if the fine for throwing items out of the window weren't that high it would have gone that way...1. Battery Life: it is short, can't say exactly how short, but it might happen that you are calling someone with a half full battery indication and few minutes later the phone shuts itself down without a warning.2. The software: might it be because I am Apple user or that I never used a smartphone before. The touchflow looks nice in the advertisement, but in real life it is slow. But be also aware that once you scrolled too far you might have difficulties to scroll back up again. So you might have to start all over again3. The software crashes quiet often. I have to end about 5% of all calls by removing the battery4. If the phone gets the idea of using WiFi even you don't want to... You keep on deselecting it for several times. If you still can't convince the phone to leave WiFi off... remove the battery5. The touchscreen: I never had a phone with touch screen and will never buy one again. When on the phone with someone I often deactivate the microphone or hang up the call. Not pleasant. Or you have the phone in your pocket, you miss the call due to the noise on the street, but the incoming call deactivated the sleeping mode. Now your phone calls whoever the jeans touches in your phone memory phone book. Might be embarrassing, and it happened very often to me6. the screensaver: Ever tried to make a call to a company and dial through a menu? Use another phone, the HTC touch diamond screensaver has to be deactivated avery few seconds and at the end you might get kicked out of the menuOk, i would like to know whether these are general problems with smartphones (as said, this is my first one) or whether I am too picky.
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Review by
Evrae
on 6th Sep 2008
User Rating : 10
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I love this handset. Orange have it as it is supposed to be if you get it from them but O2 have a variant which is slightly different called the XDA Ignito. Tmobile also has a variant called the MDA Compact 4 which has a flat back like the o2 version. The "Touch Flo" system works well and is great for 1st time Windows mobile users as it looks less intimidating at 1st glance. If you are interested, pop along to Youtube and search for the variant you want to take a look at. The Touch Diamond will ...
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Review by
swiftysue
on 19th Jul 2008
User Rating : 9
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I had a tytn 2 by htc and then an iPhone which i thought was awesome but i really missed the windows platform, for me i think the htc diamond is a fantastic combination of the two a copy of , apple graphics but improved and windows platform a truly brilliant phone, but could do with a louder ringer. swifty
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Review by
Guest.
on 3rd Jul 2008
User Rating : 10
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This phone is definately an iPhone killer, and here in the U.K it is coming out on vodafone (14th july), orange and t-mobile and will probably be free on selected tariffs.
I highly recommend anyone to get this phone and you will not be disappointed!
thanks
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