Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15932 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: HTC
• Model: T5353EUBK
• Released on: 2009-04-22
• Dimensions: 2.20 pounds

Features

• * 5 megapixel color camera with auto focus for quality image and video capture.
• * Enhanced TouchFLO 3D making the phone-using experience more instinctive.
• * 3.2-inch touch-sensitive screen with WVGA (480 X 800 pixel) resolution.
• * Zoom bar to precisely zoom in or out when viewing images, web pages or Google MapsTM.
• * microSDTM (SD 2.0 compatible) expansion slot for all your storage needs.

Manufacturer's Description

HTC Touch Diamond2

When you first see and start exploring the HTC Touch Diamond2, you'll be struck by its brilliant looks and amazed by the intuitive controls.

In today's world, a conversation can take many forms, from voice to text ... but there's always a person on the other end. The HTC Touch Diamond2 arranges your conversations by people, not just by how you speak with them.

When looking at your contacts, you now can see a history of your conversation in whatever form it took place. It doesn’t matter if you get asked about a recent email while you are talking on the phone, or if you're in a café reminiscing about a friend's recent text - all your interactions are neatly laid out for viewing and follow-up in a tree of communication with that person.

One indisputable fact about smartphones ... a big screen on a small phone is good. That's why we've stretched the display on the Touch Diamond2 to its very limits, while still keeping the same compact size. Enjoy videos, websites, photos and any other images on the ultra sharp wide screen display. The high resolution screen will reveal every minute detail in the most vivid way.

These days, a phone is one of the few items that never leaves our side. It not only helps us keep connected with friends, business partners and world events, it also helps complement who we are. The Touch Diamond2 is your perfect companion in both the way it helps you keep in the loop and the way it accentuates your sense of style.

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Customer Reviews

IPhone Beater!
Had the diamond 2 for a couple of weeks now and have not been disappointed.
Takes a little while to get used to the technique for touch navigation through the menus but soon got the hang of it.

No problems syncing with outlook for all contacts so ideal for business as well as personal use.

Comes with Google maps for use with the GPS but can easily install other navigation software if required.

The handy thing about this handset is windows mobile, which while some will say is clunky, allows a considerable amount of 3rd party software to be installed and used on the device.

There are registry hacks to allow the portrait mode to be used in all applications if necessary.

All in all the phone is outstanding and the only gripe would be the lack of a 3.5mm audio jack (a mini-USB adaptor is required: but this only costs a couple of pounds on amazon).

If you want power, functionality and versitility, buy this over the IPhone every time!!

HTC : Almost there with Windows Mobile
Almost my dream smart phone,

Slim, Light, a very nice sized high res screen.

Short battery life : if you are browsing internet, checking emails regularly or playing games, the battery runs out very quickly.
Gravity Sensor : with some applications it does not work, you are stuck in portrait mode.

Connectivity : Great, I can use WIFI, connect to my home wireless, or Wireless hotspots, almost a laptop like control and feel to connectivity features. GPRS, BlueTooth, GPS is standard, however the installed GPS application (Google Maps) is not very good, but there are many good free GPS apps available on internet.

Internet Browsing: Opera Mini does not play Flash videos, I installed skyfire and it works a treat.

Crashes : It happened twice in the first week, when i put the device to sleep, it could not wake up, had to take the battery out and put it back in again to recover. I think this fault is down to Windows Mobile OS rather than the handset.
I cleared storage and restarted, it has been working ok now. hopefully HTC will release a windows 6.5 image when it is released.

Email's functionality is great : supports internet and exchange setup.

Navigation, Buttons and Themes: HTC's Touch Flow gives same experience as experience than iPhone, however there not many applications available for Windows Mobile. If Touch flo is enabled it hides windows theme.

If your previous handset had a key pad, On screen touch features will take a little time getting used to, but iphone users will find it very familiar.

Techies can tweak things further by changing underlying windows mobile features.

Overall a very good smart phone, One star deducted for Crashes but I can overlook that because rest of the features work great.

HTC will be hard to beat
I have had this phone for a couple of months now.

I had a PDA for years and wanted to upgrade, which included a phone, so spent a lot of time researching various products. I have not been disappointed, as it works great as a PDA. It has never crashed, and works great with my vista laptop.

I agree with other reviews that the battery life is poor. If you are using it all day, then I would suggest increasing your purchase to include a secondary charger. I got a cheap, car charger.

Memory is not very high, so recommend purchasing a card, I went for an 8gb, which appears very adequate for my needs. Music & photo's will sync with Media Player.

If you are a fan of the Ipod, I think you will be disappointed, whilst listening to music. Switching between tracks is slightly cumbersome. Personally I bought this to be a phone + features of a PDA. I do not listen to large amounts of music.

The Touch Flo interface is amazing, if you switch it off, it reverts back to Windows Mobile interface, which is good and mirrors the interface of most PDA's, so I found this very familiar. However I am sure once you disable the Touch Flo, you will be enable it within minutes. It is so easy to use, and looks great

If your looking for a phone / PDA then this is the one. This phone will be hard to beat.

One other thing, I recommend getting a cover!