HTC's Touch Diamond2 adds zoom bar, mega screen, surprisingly few diamonds

by Paul Miller posted Feb 16th 2009 at 5:30AM

HTC is following up on its ultra-sexy touchphone, the Touch Diamond, with the new Touch Diamond2, which seems quite worthy of the title of successor. This time around there's much more room for screen, with a huge 3.6-inch 480 x 800 LCD up front, and around back there's a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus. The other main addition is a "touch zoom bar" below the screen -- just like on big brother Touch Pro2 -- which we presume provides expected (and welcome) functionality. There's also the new version of TouchFLO 3D running on Windows Mobile, but under the hood there's the same old 528MHz processor, and the whole kit is actually a tad thicker a 0.54-inches. Still, memory is up to 512MB ROM and 288MB RAM, and if HTC keeps hoisting pixels and sexy on us at this rate we can hardly complain. This phone should hit major markets in Europe and Asia in "early Q2 2009," with more spots to follow later in the year.

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Windows Mobile

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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sam.manley @ Feb 16th 2009 6:06AM

Why oh why aren't HTC releasing these sex-beast phones with Android. What is it about Android that says to HTC - must build plastic, clunky, low spec phone?

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smover @ Feb 16th 2009 6:24AM

hum, doesn't looks good enought for me : plastic, plastic, plastic... I prefer a lot the Pro2 ! The screen of this new HTC generation is gorgeous !

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dredd67 @ Feb 16th 2009 10:03AM

Screen is not 3.6. According to HTC's spec sheet on their website:

3.2-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 480 X 800 WVGA resolution.

So that's quite tiny for such a large resolution. What I call an overkill. Why not add a 15 Mpixels camera by the way heh?

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SimbaDogg @ Feb 16th 2009 4:16PM

give em a break...they swapped the sizes for the diamond 2 and the touch pro 2, nothing more. simple mistake

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Brian @ Feb 16th 2009 6:27AM

Aren't the Diamond2/Touch Pro2 basically the HD Touch and HD Touch Pro? Aside from a few minor changes, all that's different really is the outer casing.

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asanbr @ Feb 17th 2009 5:00PM

Wow. I want it! My Preciousssss...

HTC has getting better day by day. I Hope it will shipe with WM 6.5 or 7.

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smover @ Feb 16th 2009 10:03AM

Ok this picture wasn't representative : it's not a grey plastic but steel instead ! Quality built is finally here ! ::love::
Rock On HTC !!!
I still have more love to the Pro2, but this ones seriously kicks some asses too !

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