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Will (Touch) Diamonds be a Geeks Best Friend???


As promised HTC announced a new product yesterday in London. It's been doing the rounds on the internet for a few weeks as leaked images and specs but now we have it straight from the Taiwan based firm. Say hello to the HTC Touch Diamond.
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Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional [although I'm still wondering why it has WM Standard Home/Back keys]
2.8" VGA Screen
Triband GSM/GPRS/EDGE [900/1800/1900 MHz]+ Dualband HSDPA [900/2100 MHz]
Qualcomm MSM7201A 528MHz processor
192Mb RAM / 256Mb ROM / 4Gb Memory
WiFi
Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
A-GPS
FM tuner
ExtUSB
3.2MP / 0.3MP cameras for Imaging/Telephony
900 maH battery
Accelerometer
Fancy UI on top of WM6.1 dubbed TouchFLO™ 3D
Opera, Youtube access
110g [w/ batt]
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Though I'm happy to see loads of RAM/ROM and 4Gb of internal storage I'm surprised to see that they removed the microSD card slot for this device. That's a definite point against this device. Triband is so 90's I wonder why this isn't Quadband? Maybe it's cheaper to make Triband devices then just make 2 models [1 for Asia/Europe and 1 for NA] but this won't make globe trekkers happy. I'm not to keen on this device because it lacks a hardware keyboard [a personal requirement]. This is a very good update to the HTC Touch and it'll be interesting to see what they have in store for the TyTN series. VGA Slider sounds good. I hope these next crop of devices will have graphics drivers to take advantage of the nice screens.

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