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Telus HTC Touch Diamond Video Review
Telus recently released the sexy and stylish HTC Touch Diamond – becoming the first carrier in North America to offer this!
We played around with the Diamond and it certainly lives up to its name – very shiny and glamorous. What we liked best about this touchscreen device is how easy it is to navigate and use, very intuitive and comes with the TouchFLO 3D interface, Windows Media Player and 4 GB internal memory, 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus and video capabilities, built-in GPS (through Telus Navigator). The size is 102 x 51 x 11.5mm and weighs 110 grams with a wicked and clean display of 480 x 640 pixels (2.8 inches). This comes loaded with Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional for all your e-mails.
You can surf the web via Opera Mobile and the Diamond has a scroll wheel of sorts that makes it easier to view the browser. With the clean display the web pages come out really nice and easy to read. Also, the videos crisp as well. This does not comes with a QWERTY keyboard, so If you do get a bit frustrated with the touchscreen while entering names, contacts, e-mails, text messages HTC has graciously provided a stylus to get things completed faster. We are still testing the battery life and will let you know in our next review how long it actually lasts. We were excited to initially open to box and find the phones backing to be shapes like a diamond (European model), but to our disappointment this version of the phone has a smooth backing like every phone with just the camera.
Here is our first review of the HTC Touch Diamond. More to come soon:
Telus has plans starting at $149.99 with a three-year contract, $349.99 for a 2-year contract, $399.99 for a 1-year contract. Also, this is available for $449.99 with no contract. Rate plans vary at $15 for unlimited email and IM or $30 for unlimited email, web browsing and IM).
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lol i like the part Steve jobs and Oprah in my contact
nice review now if it could come to BELL I WANT THIS PHONE!!!
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Thanks Rob for the review.
I have some questions:
- what about the battery life?
- what about the GPS?
- what about boot up speed?
This has nothing to do with the Diamond and is a rather general issue with Telus and Bell.
Why can’t I buy the Diamond at full-price (no contract) and subscribe to a Bell plan if I will?
Anyone at mobilesyrup has details about this??? It’s bad …mobile competition-wise
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What’s the maximum resolution for recording with camcorder? How’s the quality?
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Nice review….
Some more questions for you
- what about SD reader?
- what about USB host?
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The phone is so SLOOOOW….
The thouchscreen is so BAAD…
The screen quality is the best in a mobile phone though……
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Dan, you’re thinking of the old GSM HTC Diamond. This new Telus model is already in the hands of users since late last week and without exception, everyone is very impressed. They have really cleared up the lag issues that plagued previous GSM models.
Also, as you said, the screen is the best out there. Anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, will be totally blown away.
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I’ve had my Diamond for about a day and ahalf now and I’ll try to answer some of the questions.
1. Battery life – I’m not sure on this one yet. Yesterday it did not last the full day but I was still playing hard with it on data and used the GPS so I don’t know what sucks battery yet (I suspect the GPS).
2. GPS – used it in Google Maps and it worked great. Connected to 6 satellites (I was west of the GTA) and tracked me perfectly. BTW, to download Google Maps on this phone, you have to use the Internet Explorer browser to go to m.google.com because the Opera browser doesn’t pass on that it is a WinMo device.
3. Boot up – quite quick as far as I am concerned. The lag issues have been fixed in the European models with ROM 1.93 and those fixes were applied to the ROM in this phone.
4. SD Reader – This phone does not have an SD card slot, it only has the 4GB of internal storage.
5. USB host – I’m sorry I don’t understand what this is.
6. Video resolution – Just looked and you have four resolution modes in the video camera mode: L, M, S, and CIF. It records in MPEG format. I haven’t run a video but the pictures are very crisp and clear.
I have played with an original European version and this is much faster.
Hope that helps.
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[...] MobileSyrup’s Rob managed to get his lucky hands on Telus’ HTC Touch Diamond. Needless to say, he loves the Windows Mobile smartphone, even though he would prefer the European version of the device with shapes like a diamond on the back. However, I don’t see that as a big minus, if that’s a minus at all. [...]
MobileSyrup’s Rob managed to get his lucky hands on Telus’ HTC Touch Diamond. Needless to say, he loves the Windows Mobile smartphone, even though he would prefer the European version of the device with shapes like a diamond on the back.
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While Sprint and Verizon consider final monikers for the HTC Touch Diamond, some North Americans are already enjoying the thing up in the Great North. The ecstatic folks over at Mobile Syrup were able to snap up Telus’ version of the WinMo 6.1-packin’ handset, and of course, they put together a video review for us Americans to drool over.
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I haven’t been able to track any of these handsets down, and my local Telus store told me that they are hoping to get some in sometime next week.
When I contacted Telus about the delay, they denied even having published the August 14 launch date.
Does anyone have any other info on this?
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Telus at Vaughan Mills has plenty stock as of Monday August 18
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The launch date of August 14 was on a press release that is on the Telus web site, so it was official. But you need to understand what “launch date” really means. It means you could order it on their web site that day and a few stores got a few units on the 15th. Most stores are getting a lot of stock this week.
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Thanks rtt.
I spoke to someone at Telus (I’m in Ottawa) again today, and they are now telling me that they are hoping to get some next week.
I also spoke to someone at Best Buy and he was told by his Telus rep that they are delayed until the first week of September.
I wish that they’d had this sorted out sooner.
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I bought it but i returned it several times. it keeps freezing.
Don’t recommend. BB is the best. lol
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