HTC Touch Diamond2 hitting Taiwan this month
By Ross Miller 
posted April 10th 2009 4:06AM
posted April 10th 2009 4:06AM
posted April 10th 2009 4:06AM
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Sweet.
http://www.expansys-usa.com/p.aspx?i=179176&partner=register says here...
'Availability: Due Wednesday 22nd April
If you order this product before 3pm CST today, US customers can expect shipment in 12 working days. Add your email address to the box at the bottom to receive an alert message when we get stock'
Not if it's another idiotic phone with no headphone jack.
No 3.5mm jack, no sale.
What the hell happened to the HTC Touch Diamond1? They sold a million and now they're on to version 2? WTF. This isn't the DeLorean of phones. This is more like the Edsel of phones.
@iphonerulez The Diamond will be a year old in May.
Can't wait.
please dont encourage violance engadget, taiwan may have mixed feelings about the matter but it does mean you can encourage HTC.
yeah its awesome
No it's not awesome.
I look forward to replace my TouchHD but not with this thing.
Where is the fabled Thoth , HTC?
And the Super Star?
Gimme something serious HTC or I'm gonna grab an N97 as soon as I see one.
hopefully they fixed that unresponsive interface.
It can be updated to WM 6.5, which is ultra responsive compared to WM 6.1, especially the Touch Flo.
They won't. It still uses Windows Mobile, which is like having Windows 98 on your PC.
And the troll bait award of the thread goes to:
Lundmark
Congrats
windows98 is pretty damn fast on my pc.
does it have manilla 2...
nice!
nice!!
nice!!!
nice!!!!
nice!!!!!
google
That's the least attractive shot I've seen of the touch diamond 2! Post a few more and you may save me a few quid.
that's very nice, i just want that phone
Unlike USA, people in other countries generally do not have to buy locked phones...
Even if you contract with a network, the phone generally remain unlocked, that's why the price is significant expensiver when compared.
expensiver??? wtf
Yes it's like how the Diamond 2 is "gooder" than the Diamond.
I've never see an unlocked or unbranded HTC sold by a carrier. All mine have been CID clocked, though, it's easy to unlock.
Its to bad it runs winmo
It's too bad you can't spell "too."
or it's
i love the design of HTC phones, but cmon, where the hell is the 3.5mm headphone jack??
Who listens to music on their cell phone? That's about the only good thing that apple makes (ipod classic).
I don't listen to music on my phone, but then again I have a Touch Pro which makes it a royal pain in the *** to do so. Probably would if it were easier.
Should've waited for the Pre :(
The Zune is definitely better than the iPod Classic. Just sayin.
fantastic..and Verizon is getting the HTC Touch Diamond what today? While the HTC Touch Diamond 2 is coming out this month. Fantasssssstic 300 bucks for old hardware on contract.
I'm more interested in knowing when the Touch Pro2 is coming to the US rather than this phone :)
Yet another sucky iPhone clone
i have an iphone, and this looks nothing like it fucktard
Listed on play.com (uk) that it's shipping next friday. :D
The Diamond looked better.
Let me know when they're going to put back the flipp'n camera button from the original Touch! I absolutely HATE fishing through menus just to take a picture. They can keep the Back and Home keys, none of which I ever use on the Diamond or Touch Pro. Just give me a camera button!
Where do you insert the cassette?
I think it looks good. A full touch screen that doesn't look like a piece of crap iPhone. Why not Android though?
i actually like the looks of the first one better. this one reminds me of a car from the 1980s, all boxy.
Introducing the HTC TouchDiamond2, "The Delorean of phones!".
I'll wait till WM7 is released.
Wow such a feature rich winmo smartphone, should
Have no problem killing the iPhone right,?
NOT!!!!!!keep wishing ,no iphonekiller here.!
So close to iPhone 3.0, is there someone out there that really
Aspire to own this over iPhone 3,.?
Sluggish winmo loaded, pathetic.
I'll never go with an Iphone over WinMo... I really like having background applications. In fact, it's been a deal-breaker from the start. I want an OS that let's me do what I want to do, not what THEY want me to do. I also don't like the fact that the UI is just a glorified app loader.
The fact that the Iphone is JUST getting cut/copy/paste and MMS this summer with the 3.0 is just comical...but at least you apple fans can finally stop hearing about it from those of us who have used it for years.
Apple needs to release a phone with a higher resolution, a removable battery, and a fully-functional bluetooth stack. (The better bluetooth is apparently becoming available to the Iphone 3G only, with the firmware update. Why they COULD have done it, and didn't until this point, is beyond me. )
It sure is clunky!
Why the hell can't they make a nice slim phone like the Toshiba TG01?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/17/toshiba-tg01-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/
Does the battery on this Diamond last more than a few hours? THe last one died mid day even without making any calls.
Does the Bluetooth on the Diamond 2 actually work well? The Diamond and just about every HTC phone has crappy BT - the touch was one of the better BT units - but still not as good on the BT on most free phones.
How is the radio on this one? The Diamond CDMA version sucked big moose you could go from 3 bars to disconnected while sitting at your desk.
What I don't understand about this phone is, why did they get rid of the D-pad?
To fit the screen on :(
Using the Diamond I miss the softkeys and Mail/Web keys on the Hermes.
This phone is going to effin rock. Right out of the box, the only complaint i had about my diamond is the battery, then a not so much complaint, but hinderance (sp?) was the lack of expandable memory. Now i'm running a custom ROM on there, and the batter lasts from 7:00am until i put it on the charger, anywhere from 11pm-2am. I will talk on it, listen to music (who uses 3.5mm audiojacks??? BT headphones, welcome to the land of wireless connectivity - and they sound SO much better than they did even a year ago!), check my email, do a few dozen texts, and run around on the net using opera. People only complain about the diamond when they don't know how to use one, and if you don't know how to use one (or any wm phone for that matter) you shouldn't have one. My phone's destroyed any side by side comparison to the iphone me and my friends have done, and it fits in my front pocket! DIAMOND2?!?!?!?! come on folks, you have got to be kidding me! if the iphone is the Jesus phone, then the diamond 2 is the the JUDAS PHONE! (diamond1 already was IMO). happy easter! :)
Man, if only the G1 looked like that...
a few photos from the lauch event... http://www.mobile01.com/newsdetail.php?id=7312