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HTC Touch Diamond2: The popular Smartphone gets upgraded

By Jenny • Mar 17th, 2009 • Category: Uncategorized

The Touch Diamond 2 is the new highest member of the Touch Diamond Family. Like the original HTC Touch Diamond the Touch Diamond too offers awesome mobility, mind blowing features and a new way to communicate on the go. One unique feature in this edition of Touch Diamond is its capability to store all the call details with a particular contact. It keeps track of all the conversations with different contacts in an expandable tree type hierarchy. The Touch Diamond 2 records all types of conversations for future reference.

It focuses on the people engaged in the conversation and thus it’s a purely customer oriented phone. If compared to the previous HTC Touch Diamond, the Touch Diamond 2 is more sophisticated, elegant and satisfying. Although it derives most of its features from its predecessor only the overall performance is enhanced. The new HTC Touch Diamond2’s appearance is essentially the same as its predecessor, but this time HTC is offering a stretched display in the same old compact form factor.

Like its predecessor, the HTC smartphone can run on both 2G and 3G networks. The multi-touch operation is powered via same TouchFLO 3D finger swipe navigation technology that gives the user total control over touch functions. Apart from this you will find all the other much needed options including Bluetooth, USB, Accelerometer, Audio/Video player, Pocket Office, 5 mega pixel autofocus camera and much more. The processing core of the Touch Diamond 2 consists of a Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 MHz CPU which is backed by 288 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM.

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CoPilot Live Special Edition of the HTC Touch Diamond: Never get Lost

By Dean • Oct 16th, 2008 • Category: HTC

In the smartphone arena there exists a marvelous gadget, namely, the HTC Touch Diamond, which is currently conquering hearts. The HTC Touch Diamond includes all those smart and spectacular attributes which you would expect a high-class smartphone to possess. But after the huge success of this classy gadget, there is another surprise in store for users and fans of the HTC Touch Diamond.

We are talking all about mobile phone’s CoPilot Live Special edition. With this special edition it’s obvious that fans will receive some additional and exciting attributes. To make things clearer, CoPilot Live is actually a GPS navigation software programme and in the new edition it has been completely integrated with the HTC Touch Diamond is such a way that is truly mind blowing. But the software itself is actually quite impressive and offers a little more than your standard GPS navigation.

The CoPilot Live navigation software’s turn by turn voice guided instructions make it a perfect companion for this HTC product. The software is supplied on DVD and it installs all the maps automatically. It also offers both 3D and 2D map driving views whilst navigating to a house number, street or address book contact. You can also zoom in and out of the map by using the HTC P3700 Touch Diamon’s wheel. To reduce the driver’s distraction it includes a driver safety mode. With help of its customisable navigation screen, a user can alter colour, driving views and route calculation preferences, undoubtedly adding to the product’s utility.

With this programme safety camera alerts are also integrated, together with free database updates to ensure the safety camera information is always up to date. A user can opt for one map to be installed out of the UK and Ireland, France, Benelux, Iberia, Italy and Scandinavia maps.

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O2 XDA Ignito (HTC Diamond): Flashy New Smartphone from O2

By James • Oct 13th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

Here’s a brand with its latest sensation in the smartphone arena, incorporating an array of advanced features and spectacular classy appearance. The brand is none other than O2 upholding its recently released 2008 rendition of the HTC Diamond, the O2 XDA Ignito.

Obviously as a modern smartphone it includes 3G technology. This spectacular product also incorporates several of the latest technological features, which are rarely found, with elements like TouchFLO 3D finger swipe navigation, an Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, Touch-sensitive navigation controls and handwriting recognition. As far as performance is concerned, the Ignito, O2’s version of the HTC P3700 Touch Diamond, is stocked pretty heavily. It includes up to 4GB of expandable memory, 192 MB DDR SDRAM, 256 MB Read Only Memory and above all a Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 MHz processor. Its great companionship is reflected by the long battery time that offers up 285 hours in standby and 5 hours and 30 minutes of talking time.

Now let’s talk about a few of the mobile’s fun and entertaining features. The device is equipped with a 3.15 megapixel camera (Resolution: 2048×1536 pixels) along with an auto-focus. So now clicking wonderful pictures is as easy as with a digital camera, and of the nearly the same quality. Of course, we wonder how good the pictures, and navigational interface will look on the Ignito’s screen. Fortunately the O2 XDA Ignito is blessed with a decently sized and high quality 2.8 inch TFT touch screen. O2’s smartphone clearly lives up to current standards and actually exceeds them on many levels.

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An in depth look at the HTC Touch Diamond

By Wilson • Jul 1st, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

Once again HTC is ready to amaze the tech savvy by launching its new superb smartphone called the HTC Touch Diamond. The design will attract you as soon as you lay eyes on it. The Diamond has a sleek and glossy look, together with smooth edges to make it a joy to handle.

A large 2.8-inch VGA screen dominates the front panel, while its soft keys and a special scroll wheel/D-pad combo cover the rest of the surface. This D-pad consists of hardware keys which can accommodate 5 functions simultaneously, plus one touch sensitive pad for zooming in with images, HTML documents and messages. The smartphone also includes an obligatory music player.

Apart from all these elegant features, the HTC Touch Diamond offers a complete package of digital entertainment. It supports both 2G and 3G networks and is loaded with some exciting features like handwriting recognition, TouchFLO 3D finger swipe navigation and an accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate. At its core, the Diamond is powered by the Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 Mhz processor, 192 MB DDR SDRAM, 256 MB ROM and uses Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS. This smart phone has 4GB of built-in memory. So, you can easily store lots of videos, audio, photos etc. As far as the connectivity and communication is concerned, the HTC Touch Diamond P3700 gives you the full opportunity to make use of hi-end technologies like EDGE, WLAN, Bluetooth, USB, SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging, WAP, video calls and image capture via its 3.15 MP camera. HTC spared no expense when manufacturing the exquisite Diamond and it can easily compete with any smartphone on the market, iPhone included.

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