Product summary
The Positive: The diamond of contact of HTC has a fresh interface 3D and a beautiful touch screen. The smartphone of Windows Mobile 6.1 also offers Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and a camera of 3.2 megapixel.
The Negative: The diamond of contact is slow and the quality of call is subpar. The interface of Touch FLO has a little learning curve, and absence of expansion slot
The bottom line: The diamond of contact of HTC offers much the manner of the call and the flash of sex, and him obtained certainly a formidable whole of device. However, we hope for resolutions of unquestionable HTC of the exits of execution which we tested before the smartphone is released in the states.
Key Features: Band/mode: W-CDMA 900/2100 / GSM 900/1800/1900 ; OS provided: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional ; Talk time: Up to 330 min
HTC Touch Diamond Review
There leaves SA of pressure on this small smartphone; HTC executive Cheng Hui-ming called produced to him most important for HTC this, of year and naturally, the diamond of contact was compared with the iPhone of Apple. Now, us 'about motionless a few months to outside see the American version Of the smartphone of Windows Mobile 6.1, but us couldn 'makes an attempt T. Thanks to the dynamism, we could obtain our hands on a version freed of the diamond of contact of Europe/d' Asia HTC to test. Now, to be paid in advance clearly, since these isn 't optimized for the use here in the states, us 'about not going to strike it for the lack of support of the 3G United States or of which in fact 's it tri-band. However, we will resound it for his slow execution and subpar quality of call. It was really completely disappointing, more especially as we think that the weather 's an incredibly sexy device and the new interface 3D is so fresh. As is, we wouldn 't really recommend to shell outside the $700 for a freed version, but if all is well, some of these exits will be resolved once the diamond of contact of HTC is released in the United States.
DesignYou can have seen that the images of the diamond of contact of HTC and thoughts seemed to him beautiful, but the images simply put 't do it justice. The smartphone is that much more astounding in the person with her smooth reflected face and the effect of prism on the back. He 's also smaller than us in the beginning thought of Juste 4 inches of large by 2 inches of broad by 0.4 ounces deep and 3.8 of inch, thus with you gained certainly 't have all the problems to slip this compact compound into a pocket of trousers. The total shape of the diamond of contact pointed out smaller Microsoft Zune to us.
You will mainly employ the diamond of contact of HTC the 'interface of S TouchFLO 3D to actuate the Mobile Phones, but there are some tactile buttons below the screen.
The smartphone is equipped with 2.8 inches splendid, touchscreen of resolution of the Pixel 680x480. With the quality of VGA, the text and the images looked at surprisingly crunching and vibrating. More, the diamond of contact is equipped with a probe of orientation, thus it will commutate the orientation of the screen automatically if you 'about the possession it vertically or horizontally. While they is very good, we think that it can be the new interface of TouchFLO 3D which draws really your attention. It builds on the interface of TouchFLO which was presented the first time on the contact of HTC, but the glance and the feeling are completely different. The screen at the house shows now just a larger clock and your history and calendar of call, but along the bottom of the screen, you will note a bar tool holder where you can move from left to right for launching other applications, including the email, the music, the Web, a personnalisable page of time, and the menu of arrangements. In several of the programs, more specifically email, the camera, and music, you can pass by your files and messages by striking to any flight your inch/finger to the top or to the bottom the screen, all with a fresh animated, the effect 3D.
In all, the interface of TouchFLO 3D is very fresh, and we think that it goes certainly a long way towards making the smartphone more attractive to the consumers with his less effective glance. However, it 'the S not most intuitive and has a little a learning curve. More specifically, him 's not always clearly which work of actions of blow of finger in which applications. As for the recording of text, you can use the keyboard with the screen, which you can completely commutate of QWERTY with compact QWERTY with the keyboard of mobile phones or with any other format, according to your preference. Generally, we employed full mode QWERTY and although it looked at enough with the narrow one, we found him rather easy to use and the didn 't to have too many mispresses. On the one hand, when you have the opened keyboard, it takes approximately half of the screen, thus if you 'about the text entering any field on the lower half of the screen, him 's dissimulated. He 's really completely annoying.
Below posting, you obtain some tactile orders. There 'sA. Touch beginning of screen, a back button, keys of maintenance and end, and a directional digital keyboard with a selected button of center. Except the key chosen, which has a light concave form, all the buttons are levelling telephone 'surface of S, and them 'on the subject enough of easy to press. And while him 's nonobvious at the beginning, you can press the digital keyboard of navigation upwards, downwards, left, and right, moreover, him 's also with touch, thus in certain applications (album of multi-media, camera, Opera Mobile, and word and mobile of Excel) you can use your inch or finger to make a circle in the direction of the needles of a watch or in the contrary direction of the needles of a watch for bourdonner inside out of the pages.
On the left spine, you will find a tumbler of volume, whereas the needle and the port of USB/cric of ear-phone are located on the bottom of the unit. Us 'about disappointed that the diamond didn of contact 't comes with a jack from ear-phone from 3.5mm; pier with open-type screen, us 'bench on file of D even for a jack of helmet of 2.5mm, but in the place you 'about pretty limited much to employ the uncomfortable earbuds which are included in the box, unless you obtained an adaptor of helmet. One 'button of power of SA on the top, and the camera locates on the back.
Just like the smartphone itself, the packing for the diamond of contact of HTC is sexy.
The diamond of contact of HTC comes packed in a very smooth box with the following accessories: a charger of voyage, a cable of USB, an additional needle, a stereo headphone of cable, CD of software, and reference material. For more additions, please check our accessories of mobile phones , ringtones, and page of assistance.
Features Behind all the flash and pretty glances, the diamond of contact of HTC is always with its core a smartphone of Windows Mobile. It runs the late edition of professional of Windows Mobile 6.1. Since the diamond of contact employs the interface of TouchFLO 3D, you put 't finely obtain the new one begun obtaining on the screen at the house to install the email, Bluetooth, and similar. He 's always there but you will have to go under the menu of Windows to reach to him. Here, you will also find your tools standard of productivity, including a reader of pdf, a manager of tasks, a recorder of voice, a director of zipper, and a computer. Naturally, you also obtain in Microsoft Office the mobile continuation to publish and create the word and excel of the documents and the presentations of viewing of PowerPoint. As for the memory, the diamond of contact has ROMANIAN 256MB and 192MB GDR SDRAM and 4GB of invessel fuel storage. While we appreciate great storage capacity, us 'about disappointed that there is no possibility of expansion, thus let us keep an eye on this, particularly if you like to store many images and music on your smartphone.
Like other devices of Windows Mobile, the offers Microsoft 'of diamond of contact direct technology of pushed S for the delivery in real-time of email and automatic synchronization with your calendar, tasks, and contacts of prospects via waiter for exchange. You can also reach on your accounts of POP3 and IMAP, and of the email of HTML are constant. Using the started utility of obtaining, we configured our unit of review to reach on our account of Yahoo and also synchronized our mobile phone with our PC via Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5. The two processes went to far without tear.
The devices of mobile phone on the diamond of contact of HTC include a speakerphone, a composition and orders of voice, and a transmission of messages of the texts and multi-media. The address book are only limited by the memory available (catches of chart of SIM 250 additional contacts) and you can store up to 12 numbers for a simple entry, as the addresses at the house and of work, the email, IM name of screen, birthday, united 'name of S, and more. For the identification of visitor, you can install a contact with a photograph, a group of visitor, or one of 40 ringtones polyphonic. The smartphone also has Bluetooth 2.0 which supports the mono and stereo helmets of Bluetooth, the kits freehands, the file-sharing, the network management commutated, and more.
As we noted earlier, we reviewed the version of Europe/d' Asia of the smartphone, thus him the 'tri-band of S (GSM 900/1800/1900) rather than the quadruple-band. In oneself, the insurance of AT&T will be mottled in some places, and any surprise, it doesn 'support of T our bands of the 3G United States. Surfant the Web on speeds of EDGE isn 't our idea of recreation but fortunately, the diamond of contact is also equipped with Wi-Fi. We should note that the device is also transported with the web browser of opera, in addition to the standard mobile of Internet Explorer. The smartphone offers Adobe Flash Lite 2, but not late Flash Lite 2, which offer the support of FLV (read: Videos de YouTube). To compensate for this inadvertency, there is preloaded YouTube set APP on the diamond of contact which allows you to observe the videos known as. The final radio without wire on the diamond of contact is GPS for detecting real-time and turn-by-turns of the directions (with the addition of a service or a software place-based of navigation). With the helped GPS, held in the hand can also use the cellular turns and the hot points close to Wi-Fi with find your place more quickly.
On the back of the diamond of contact, you will find the camera of 3.2 megapixel, which is well incorporated in the design of prism.
The diamond of contact of HTC is equipped with a camera of 3.2 megapixel with until the buzz 4x and the videorecording possibilities. There are six modes of capture (photo, video, panorama, video of ms, image of contacts, and topic of image). For the motionless photographs, you have a choice of five resolutions and four arrangements of quality in addition to white controls of balance and luminosity. Other tools at your disposal include a meter of photograph, a timer of individual, an adjustment of flickering, and various effects. In visual mode, you obtain four resolutions as well as the white balance, glare, and effects.
We were slightly disappointed by the quality of image, because the looked at colors erased. There 's also a little delay of obturator.
The quality of image was CORRECT. For the majority, the objects had the precise definition, but there was a little delay of obturator, thus we found that you must have a really regular hand (and patience) to obtain a clear projectile. Moreover, the colors weren 't very luminous or rich. The recorded video clips seemed decent, but still, there was a certain delay between the moment when we pressed on the button of capture at time recording really started/stopped camera.
You can also appreciate your personal library of the music and the video with the mobile of Windows Media Player 10. As always, there 'support of S of the files of AAC, MP3, WAV, WMA, MPEG-4, WMV, and moreover. More, you can check exposures recorded on your PC of Windows Media Center or run your house 's TV programming well with your device with a mobile of Sling box and SlingPlayer. HTC of diamond contact jets also in two or three additional expenses of multi-media, including a FM radio, which you must employ with the helmet included, an audio engine, the running media $$etAPP, and a utility called the bandage of MP3 which allows you to cross and the files of MP3 of balance and to transform them into ringtones.
PerformanceWe examined tri-band (GSM 900/1800/1900; GPRS/EDGE) The diamond of contact of HTC in San Francisco using the service of AT&T, and the quality of call were subpar. On our end, there was a little a basic whistle, but not as of bad as we couldn 't hear our visitors. Volume was good and expresses resounded clearly; we also didn 't have all the problems using an air line 'a system of answer voice-automated by S. Malheureusement, our visitors did not have anything to report good. A friend said that we resounded , horrible while our voice was drowned outside by a noise of crackling, and by activating the didn speakerphone 't improve the subjects, as he added only one echo to the mixture. With obtaining started the menu, the diamond of contact automatically found and connected to the mobile helmet of Bluetooth of traveller of Logitech and to the ear-phones of Active of Motorola S9 Bluetooth.
In spite to be actuated by a processor of 528MHz Qualcomm, the diamond of contact of HTC felt very slow. There was often a delay while commutating just between the menus and the applications of launching, and there were two or three occasions where the delay was enough long to encourage us to think the frozen system. In all, we found using the diamond of contact were an experiment frustrating because of the slow execution. The speed reading of the Web on speeds of GPRS/EDGE was painfully slow, thus we obviously employed a connection of Wi-Fi so possible. The execution of multi-media was mixed. Playback of music by the telephone of the 'loudspeakers of weak and spindly S.A. seemed. The observation of the video clips was tolerable in short gushings, and acoustics and the images were always synchronized.
The diamond of contact of HTC 'the battery of lithium ion of S 900mAh has one hour evaluated of 5.5 hours maintenance and of 11.8 days of latency time. The diamond beat of contact the evaluated time of maintenance by half an hour in our tests of drain of battery, but noted us in general the use that the cell drains rather quickly. Towards the end of the day, the level of battery is usually with one and we must reload ourselves.
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