My HTC Touch Diamond

HTC Diamond

Yup, a couple of weeks ago, I bought myself a cool new gadget: a HTC Touch Diamond. Among the features:

  • Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
  • ROM: 256 MB, RAM: 192 MB DDR SDRAM, Internal storage: 4 GB
  • Weight: 110 g (with battery)
  • HSDPA/WCDMA, Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
  • GPS and A-GPS
  • Bluetooth® 2.0, Wi-Fi® 802.11 b/g
  • Main camera: 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus, Second (front) camera: VGA CMOS color camera
  • The new TouchFLO™ 3D interface

All in all, an awesome little device. Expecially if you consider the new, custom ROMs appearing almost on a daily basis, which feature a lot of interface and performance improvements.

I’ve got this from the local Vodafone store, and even if the Internet option I have on my mobile only allows connections via a proxy (so no IMAP/POP3 for email), I used MobiPush to mimic the DirectPush™ feature from Microsoft Exchange, so now I get my email directly to my mobile inbox, without the need to use a webmail solution.

I’ll come up with a later post, describing all the tweaks and apps I use. :)

2008
07/22
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Life
3 comments
  • http://www.alexandrusavu.ro alexandru savu

    That’s one wicked phone. Congrats!

  • al3x3

    That phone looks great. I am planning to buy a Gigabyte g-Smart i (128) but I don’t know if I can a WindowsMobile 5.0 be upgraded to WindowsMobile 6.0 or 6.1 (legal) and can Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional create applications for WindowsMobile 6.0 or 6.1 (I have seen only 5.0). Are 5.0 applications compatible with WindowsMobile 6.0 or 6.1 ?

    Thanks!

  • http://www.tudy.ro Tudy

    First of all, when making an upgrade from WM 5.0 to WM 6.0/6.1, make sure you have the required hardware on your mobile device.

    Application compatibility between different version of Windows Mobile varies greatly, the best thing you can do is to look for a specific WM 6.0 or WM 6.1 version, which will surely work.

    As far as development goes, just make sure you have the latest version of the .NET Compact Framework.